The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-21

About 10000 Men Out of Work-The Em
ployers Propose Arbitration.

About 10000 Men Out of Work-The EN-
ployers Propose Arbitration.
New YORK, Jan. 20. Nine thousand cigar
makers and other employees of the league en-
ployed by the Cigar Manufacturers Association
are idle to-day. The direct cause of the trouble
is the refusal of the employees of Levy Bros. to
declare their strike against the new uniform
price list offered, OF return to work. The en-
ployes have banded themselves together to resist
this demand. By tomorrow the packers in all
the shops will have joined the strikers. The
strike extends to the cigar-box making trade.
When the packers quit work, the number on
strike will have been swelled to over 10000
The manufacturers claim they have sufi-
cient stock made up to fill their orders for sew
eral months to come. The packers going out
they say, will not deter them from supplying
their customers with the stock now made up but
not packed. President Mccoy, of the manu-
facturers' association. denied that the firm of
Lichenstein Bros had intimated their desirs to
withdraw from the association. The firm had
told him, this morning. that they would have no
settlement with their locked-out employees ex-
cept through the cigar-makers' association.
Meetings Of the strikers are being held to-day,
and arrangements made for the support of the
men or strike The members will be paid,
probably, four or five dollars per week. The
strikers say they have enough funds to hold out
for six months.
The cigar manufacturers this afternoon issued
a statement to the public. The statements made
by the men are declared to be misleading and
untrue. The new price-list enabled the oper-
atives to earn, for instance, in the factory of
John Love, the past week, man and woman,
an average of $1484 each. 'They
lthe strikersl quote st. Louis. Elmira,
Springfield. Urbana. Denver and Topeka
as paying higher prices than offered by this as
sociation," reads the statement. but they have
failed to say anything about Binghamton, Syra-
cuse. Reading, Cincinnati Chicago, Milwaukee,
Toledo, Philadelphia, and many other places,
where the prices for labor are infinitely lower
than the prices offered by this association This
association feels that this controversy should soon
come to an end. The $1,000 people, not 1000,
who are out of employment should
be cared for. and to that end this
association offers the following proposition:
The whole difficulty to be settled by any fair
mode of arbitration that may be suggested ard
agreed upon. Pending such arbitration, we to
open our factories at schedule prices, and any
difference between those prices and those agreed
upon to be paid to our workmen at the termina-
tion of this controversy"
This statement is officially signed by the
manufacturers
1t stated among the strikers tonight that
William Love has asked for conference to the
end Of settlement, and that he has withdrawn
from the Manufacturers Union. He employs
over four hundred men, not including bunchers
and strppers. The men tonight state, in regard
to the manufacturers proposition, that they will
not accept any arbitration.