Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-21
TO RESUME WORK.

The One Hundred Striking moulders
 At Sargent & Co.'s To Go Back To
 Work TO-Day-The Trouble At An
 End-A Man Given Work When The
 MOulders Think The Place Belongs
 To Someone Else-Mr. Sarsent's View
 Of The Matter.
 The one hundred moulders in the employ of Sargent & Co. who went out on strike Monday will all return to work this morning. There were about one hundred of them alto gether. The cause of the trouble grew out of the employment of moulder named Will liam Murphy in the south foundry. Murphy is objectionable to the other workmen. They demanded his discharge, but the company said they knew of no reason why Murphy should not work there and intimated that they did not intend to lose control of their own business.
 An evening paper reports MT. Sargents version of the strike as follows: Last spring when work in the south foundry became slack several of the moulders were dismissed. There was no work for them to do and the prospect was not favorable for business. Lately, however, business sprang up little and the demand for work was such that the managers decided that they might take in | some more men if any applied for places. A few days ago William Murphy asked for l employment. He lives at 94 Wallace street and had been employed in the north foundry | for number of years, but had been laid oil some time ago on account of lack of work in l. that foundry. He was, therefore, given em- ployment in the south foundry. No sooner had he appeared to work than there was l trouble. The moulders demanded his dis I charge on the ground that the place belonged l to one of the men who had been laid off | cz.- H. s., !, l One of the moulders is reported as saying that there had been no work done in this foundry since Monday noon. Contractor l Lord of this department had hired William | Murphy, a lnoulder of 94 Wallace street. and
 Monday MT. Murphy went to work. AS | there were two old moulders who had been l in this foundry for years out of employment l and waiting for work, the moulders in the | shop told the contractor that they wanted l him to give the old men work first before | new men were Lired. The moulders did not want to strike or leave their jobs, but when the determination was expressed to retain Murphy they sat down at their benches and did no more work until noon. At this time Contractor Lord told them that no more heats could be taken Monday and they might as well give up work until the next morning. At this time the moulders returned to work and were sur prised at being locked out.
 William Murpny, the mOulQ6r over WHO'LL the disagreement arose, was reported yester- day as saying that he visited the moulders shop committee to ascertain if there was any objection to his working in this foundry, and that they told him that if he could get job there to do so. MT. Murphy says he went to work Monday supposing it would be all right, but soon discovered that the men did not like it, so he picked up his tools and left rather than create any trouble. He has g large family to support, but says he preferred to try and secure employment somewhere else than work there against the will of the other men.
 The moulders met yesterday afternoon at Knights of Labor hall and appointed a com mittee of seven to wait upon MT. Sargent. MT. Sargent said last night to COURIER re- porter The committee waited upon me after the matter had been thoroughly explained on both sides. I unhesitatingly told them to resume their work this morning. MT. Mur- phy will also resume work this morning in his old place. So this will end the matter. Whatever trouble there has been was on ac- count of misunderstanding between myself and the men, but after it had been explained to me by their committee I soon settled it.
 To-Day.
 Minister Phelps will give dinner to ex- President Porter of Yale in London to-day, at Wnlcn many notaole people VIII slt ooWn
 City Hall Meetings.
 Tomorrow night will meet the Commit tee on Sewers, and on the same day the Committee on Claims and on Friday the Committee on Parks. The latter is the com mittee before which is the plan for making park out of some portion of the present almshouse grounds.