Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-01
LAB0R'S DAWN OF PEACE.
BETTER PROSPECTS FORlA SET
ELEMENT OF THE STRIKES.

All Quiet on Illinois Blood Stained Rat
tie GrOund-The Pittsburg Conference
Ends in an Agreement - Charges of
Trickery Reopen the Breach in
Chicago.
CHICAGO, May 31.-The striking brick
layers here held an Indignation meeting
last night and refused to be bound to the
agreement made on Tuesday by the Com
mittee of Bricklayers and Master AJasons.
They claim that after the agreement
was signed by both parties it
was given into the hands of G. c.
Prussing, President of the Master Build
ers Association, and that before giving il
out to the reporters for the daily papers
ne removed one of the leaves of the docu-
ment and substituted another containing
a clause not in the original, under which
masters may declare any man not COM
peteht mason, and may compel the brick
layers union to issue an apprenticeship
card. The men are very bitter, and will
not resume work to-day
President Prussing, of the Master Ma
sons Association, stOutly denies the inn
putatlon made by the members of the
brlcklayer's union that he had tampered
WIN the agreement. He asserts that the
Drlcklayers are in rage simply because
they have been defeated in everything
they set out to accomplish. The end of
the strike can not be now foreseen,
ST. LOUIS, May 31.-A conference of
miners and operators and the committee
of the Board Of Trade met at Belleville, Ill,
this morning. The miners agreed to All
the conditions of the Board of Trades
propositions, except tnOn-interference with
machine mines. They had concluded to
accept no conditions that did not put
hand mines on an equal footing with ma-
chinery mines. Another conference will
be held Monday.
PITrsBURG, May 3l.-The conference of
the iron manufacturers and Amalgamated
Association committees this morning re-
suited In the manufacturers signing last
years scale, which is So 30 per ton for
pudding. This action, happily, averts
strike and insures the running of all the
mills in the West for at least one wear
longer. The manufacturers, who have all
along persisted that they would not Day
more than 50, and who were supposed to
nave solid front, give as reason for
their unexpected action that they had
positive information that a number of
western mills had arranged to con-
tlnue ut the old scale, with the con-
dition that il the manufacturers here
were successful, workmen would accept
the same wages, and rather than submit
TO seeing their trade going to other places
they decided to pay the wages demanded,
President Janet, of the Amalgamated
Association, says that the scale was sign
ed Internationally, and characterized it
as victory without battle.
Intense satisfaction is expressed ON all |
sides over the settlement, as. the strike |
was regarded as inevitable, and to Pitts |
burg an indefinite shutting down of the |
IRON mills means not only a serious loss |
to those engaged in that particular indus |
try, but to every other industry and bust |
ness as well.
MILWAUKEE, May 31.-The mills of the |
North Chicago Rolling Mills Company, at |
Bay View, will close at O'Clock Friday |
morning, as this company is not a mem |
Der of the manufacturers association,
and was not represented at the Pittsburg |
meetings. Eleven hundred men are |
thrown out
BELLEVILLE, ILL, May 31.-The coron- |
or's investigation into the killing of Hen
derson, the miner, by the militia was to-
day closed, but no verdict has yet been
rendered,