Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-11
THE STRIKE ATAN END.

A-AS-O--
 smiths Appoint a Committee of the
 Knights of Labor to Induce the Man
 ufacturers to Let Them Go Back at
 Old Prices.
 As near as could be learned last evening the carriage body makers strike is about over, and the body makers, having come out the little end of the horn, are willing to go back to work at the old prices if allowed to. They
 have been out of work for nearly two months
 and are getting disgusted and tired of strikes.
 Yesterday committee of the Knights of
 Labor consisting oe man from the rubber
 shop, one from the wheel shop and one from
 Peck Brothers waited on the carriage manu-
 lecturers and tried to settle the matter in
 such manner that the body makers and
 blacksmiths, painters and trimmsrs could go
 back to work at the old prices.
 Mr. Hale, of the firm of Henry Hale & Co.,,
 said when seen last evening: Three gentlemen
 visited our office to-day and informed me that
 they were committee of the Knights of Labor appointed by the body makers and blacksmiths to settle the matter so that the latter could go back to work. l asked them their names and where they worked, but their names I have forgotten, but one worked at the wheel shop, another at Peck Brothers and the other at the rubber shop. I then referred them to MT. Page, my partner and the talking man of the firm, and we told them distinctly that we did not wish to recognize them or talk to them as committee, as the men had taken their tools away and we had no more dealings with them whatever, after which the committee left One body maker came back to-day and blacksmith and his helper Saturday. We have also three new men who went to work this morning and we have all we want. of Ry seen and said when asked if the committee had waited on him: Yes, the committee of three waited on us this morning, but MT. Lines was out and referred them to him and said that he would be in after dinner. l also told them that we would have nothing to do with them as our help had been dis charged and taken their tools away, so severing all connection with us. The committee did not return to see Mir. Lines. One new man went to work for us to day, added MT. Kean. MT. Armstrong, of the firm of Armstrong & Co, was also waited on by the committee, and he gave them the same answer that they received at Kean & Lines and Henry Hale & Co.'S. A visit to the house of Mr. Killam, of the firm of Cruttenden & Co.,, showed that the committee had visited his shop and asked | that the men be allowed to return to work at that they could if they wanted | to, and so they will probably go l back to work to-day many as there is work for.
 The committee did not visit Henry Hooker 6 Co.'S. shop. MT. Hooker had seventy-fve
 men employed a week ago and yesterday
 had 113, many of them old workmen who had gone out on the strike.
 A carriage manufacturer said last evening" We have discharged these men; they have taken away their tools and we have nothing | more to do with them. Now they see they
 are in the wrong and want to come back
 to work, but don't want to give in:
 Knights of Labor and send them
 to us to beg of us to let them come back at l old prices, but let the Knights of Labor have all the glory. We have nothing to do with
 committees, but if the strikers apply individ- ually we are willing to hear what they have to say. That is and has been the position of the firms all along. We were and are will ing to treat with the men individually, but rot as body of strikers. No menace of any
 sort woald be received. The carriage busi-
 mess in this city has been killed for this
 year at least and we are willing and have
 been willing to receive men back as individu-
 als and employ all that the present depressed
 state of business warrants