New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-15
THE CRISPINS IN MASSACHUSETTS,

TIE STRIKES IN VARIOUS sECTIONS-LAw IN
COOPERATING THE GRAND LODGE-EXPECTED
ARRIVAL OF CHINESE sHOEMAKERS.
BOsToN, June 13.-The frequent agitatiOns
in different sections of this state concerning the strikes
Of the Knights Of ST. Crspn have an important bearing
the trade At the recent hearings by committee Of
the Legislature on petition for a charter for a Grand
Lodge the fact developed that the ruling officers OF
lions of manufacturers who will not hire wOrkmen who
not Crspns But il appears that some of the more
OF the lodges which they did not sanction and Of
which there record The bill passed by the pres
T. imagine that II ndOrses all their ilegtimate
acts and gives them full power they please in
incorporated for the purpose Of managing and ad
mnisering the funds belonging to the association" The
other main provisions of the bill were these:
Ne : S 20 Ga f h SS rrdSs s fI IN al gn ap
relating corporations which in
this Commonwealth far the applicable corporations
SIC ssd Corporation may any funds belonging
provisions q chapter 20 The aes Of The 1907 and such subscrp
Corporation nav and hold b. gin grant purchase
res ani personal not exceeding in value the Of 100 90
This bill was no sooner passed than many OF the Crs-
pins employed in the Marlboro shops struck against six
who not members, and refused 70 20 TO work
again until that half dozen workmen discharged,
joined the order They held out for several days but the
officers Of the Grand Lodge dscOuntenanced the move
ent and they gave up the struggle which they said was
test Now the same town In another shop the
men have struck against rev members who nave re-
fused 10 pay their dues unless they nave leave 10 with
draw from the order The lodge refused 10 grant their
The members IN gOOu strike
against the who Will not pay their dues. The
state Of things exists in North Brookhed in the largest
shop ia the State wherein Messrs. E. d A..
II. Bateheder d Co., employ 500 or COO
hands in good times. There were three
four in this shop who have withdrawn from the order
and refuse tO pay their monthly assessments since they
have given of their Withdrawal About rs of the
Crispins are stil at work and the rest strike
How will terminate is sti undecided At both of these
places ana especially at the former those strike try
To the few who Will work, and IN Marlboro II Is
said that one Frencman was visited twice late at
night delegations Of the order and threatened with
good pounding 60 put 10 mildly If he went 20 work He
s. frightened that he dares not resume work There Is
considerable excitement in the town, there Is IN North
BroOkfeld the boot and shoe manufacturing interest
being the chief in both places. The men who try
ing TO withdraw claim that the more respectable mem
beers OF the Crspn order all trying 10 leave and that
pTeconcered movement has led 20 all these strikes.
a matter which has a most important bearing on the
labor question in this State is the arrival at North Adams
OF Cinnamon from California, who have been employed
10y Mr.. c. T. Sampson He had some trouble with the
Crspns and refused 70 hire them, have some other
manufacturers in other places But unlike the latter he
did not trust 10 home talent he sent agent 10 san
Francisco. There has been good deal OF talk in the
in consequence OF this action Of his, and week
serious trouble apprehended. Now, hOwever
s. thou gt that there will be difficulty, the mutter
ngs Of the discontinued are no longer loud nor deep