Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-20
TO ORGANIZE AS ONE UNION.

The MOlders to Join Hands-The Coal Strike
to Continue-Certain FOundriss May b.
Declared Nom Union.
On Saturday night next mass meeting
of molders of the city and those employed
in shops in the vicinity, will be held in
| Knights of Labor Hall No. /, to discuss ar
rangements for the uniting OF the whole
body of molders within one organization.
Prominent speakers, both from at home and
abroad, will make addresses bearing on the
question, and matters of interest appertain-
| ing to the trade will be spoken of
This movement for concentration oi
| forces on the part of the molders has aIready
been referred to in The DISPATCH as
about to be put on foot, and is the outcome
of the late strike, when the concerted ac-
tion of the molders proved so successful in
obtaining the increase in wages desired. At
present, in this city as well as in other large
centers, the fraternity of molders are com
prised within three different organizations,
viz, knights OF Labor, the Iron Molders'
Union of North America and the Brother
hood of Machine Molders. The men of this
craft in the city number about 700 enrolled
in organizations, and in addition there are
about 100 who have been suspended for one
cause or another.
This amalgamation of the bodies of mold
ers. at present divided, is not without its
significance. 1t means that the men recog-
nize that in union lies their Strengths
exempli6ed by their late successful action
regarding the wage question-and that by
uniting in one organization they can best
take such action, and that. too, in quiet
and businesslike way, as they proved they
could do, so lately-in such matters as affect
their interests. Now that the question of
wages has been settled, at any rate for the
present, il must be said that the manner in
which the men concerned, and those repre-
senting them, deported themselves when
treating with the manufacturers, is worthy
of all credit, and points to the probability
that in the near future, when questions
of wages arise, that the matter will be dis
cussed, in a businesslike and temperate
manner, in a conference of representatives
of labor on the one hand, and those of cap
ital on the other.
L. A. 1890, K. of L., machinery molders,
held meeting last evening to appoint
committee of seven to meet like committee
of the Brotherhood of Machinery Molders
and seven representatives from the Iron
Molders' Union OF North America, to confer
relative to the amalgamation of the seperate
organizations, as referred to above. The
conference will be held on Friday next.
Wharton Mcknight, of Penn avenue.
who had declared his intention of doing
without the assistance OF Union molders,
made trip to the East lately and returned
with some eight or nine men. The men
claim that Mr.. Mcknight told them that all
trouble between him and his employees had
ended, but that he still required
men to fill his shop. Seven of them,
however, on learning that Mr.. Mcknight
was still holding out against paying the in
crease in wages appeared at X. of L. head
quarters and offered to return whence they
came. They will leave this morning. The
other two, it is said, will also leave when
they understand the position.
Intimation has been made to the shops
which have not yet signed the scale, that if
they do mot declare their intention, one
way or other, within a certain time, they
will be declared non-union shops.