The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-28
THE STRIKE EXTENDING.
Prospects of Trouble Next
Week at Lori11ard's
Factory.
BOTH SIDES RESOLUTE.
The Kicking stemmers Paid OF in
Full---others Available.
Mr.. Reed Says.

Hundreds of the strikers and others
thrown out of work in consequence Of
Mondays strike of the stemmers in Loril-
lard's tobacco factory surrounded Super
intendent Reeds office this morning and
patiently awaited their Saturday pay.
There are now nearly nine hundred peo-
pie out of work. II is customary to hold
back one weeks wages until the Christ
mas holidays The money paid out this
morning was, therefore, for last weeks
work, and the envelopes were filed as
usual The strikers were paid, however,
up TO the time they quit work, and they
look upon this as q significant fact. They
Were unusually CHEEKY, as the Lorillards'
big picnic occurs at Ca1edonian Park this
afternoon.
BOTH SIDES FIRM
IL IS impossible as yet to determine ul-;
inmate results. The girls are emphatic in
their declarations that they will not re-
turn at the old figures, and Superintend-
ent Reed is still more emphatic in his
declarations that the figures will not be
advanced He still maintains that the
plug department will open up bright and
early Monday morning, and when asked
by. JERSEY CITY News reporter this
morning If he proposed to supply tho
vacant places with new hands, he simply
replied: I'VE have paid the strikers up
TO the hour they quit. We wllIanot adj
vance.the prices, becausewe cannot afford
II. we are paying now more than any
other large factory for this same class OF
work. Ii the strikers do not show up
monday morning with the intention OF
resuming work, why"
They will find others in their placesr'
suggested the reporter.
We'll" answered Mr.. Reed, 1--WE are
mot so very far away from place where
'all the strippers we want can be OBJ
tained.n
But will the other departments not
strike in case you resortsto scab labors''
.,',la1,s There is I no such labor about it.
own prices. If the strikers refuse to
work for those figures that is not our
fault"
WHERE THEIR sYAfPATHIEs LIE.
Those in the other departments refuse
to say to what extent their sympathies
go out to the strikers, but it siB not utterly
Improbable that should the strikers
places be supplied by other hands the
strike Will spread to the other depart
ments. There are over twenty-five hum
dred hands employed In the factory. Mr..
Heed does not think q spread of the
strike at all likely.
Those who are thrown out Id conse-
quence OF the strike seem to sympathize
with the strikers. So far as could be
ascertained there are not more thausha
dozen who are in favor of giving in; the
others tarnt them with such expressions
as we'll take up collection for you ;,
During the morning there was much talk
OF hiring Turner Hall in First street for
a meeting to discuss matters.
About sixty of the strikers held short
meeting in one of the upper rooms at
Turner Hall, just before noon, and de-
cided not to go to work at the old figures
MAn6aV Tpoaff31cr r<,d
Monday morning, at which it is antici-
pated' nearly all interested, or at least as
many as can crowd into the large hall,
will be In attendance.