The morning call., 1890-04-03
NOT FORGOTTEN.
Two Thousand Dollars Received
by the Strikers.
The Money Came From the International
Treasury-Five Men From the East.
An Arrest for Vagrancy.

The striking molders are more confident
than ever that they will beat the Manufac-
turers' Association in the contest for su-
premacy. Their hopes of victory received
a strong stimulus yesterday, when the let
ter-carrier came into the little room where
they assemble daily with letter contain
ing check for $4,000.
The money came from the Treasurer Of
the International Iron-molders' Union,
who wrote as follows:
Of Union 164-DBAR SIR; In your care / send
$1,000 DRAFT payable to Peter Foley received
remain yours frateInally,
CARROLL HENDY. Treasurer 1. NJ. !. U.
Immediately after the receipt of the draft
the strikers were paid 81 per capita by the
Executive Committee.
The molders no longer deny that men are
coming from the East in small numbers.
Five arrived from Philadelphia on Tuesday
evening and one of them had an expert
ence which he will not soon forget
CAPTURED BY THE sTRIK ERs.
He was captured by the strikers and
taken to the Southern Police Station, when
charge of vagrancy was made against
him. large crowd followed the Eastern
man and his captors to the station, but the
officer IN charge would not entertain the
complaint and the captive was set free.
During the afternoon the strikers cap
tured molder who said he had come from
Philadelphia by way of the isthmus. He
told CA LII reporter, who interviewed him,
that four other molders came on the same
steamer He said that he left Philadelphia
on March Sd, and did not know that the
mOders of this city were on strike.
He alleged that he came here because he
on q lex anf nff
day and one years work to mOlders who
would come to this city. He said that there
is no scarcity of work in the East, but he
could not earn IS per day there.
Several new men were given work at the
Union Iron Works yesterday, and the Ris-
don and Fulton shops each secured a new
assistant. As proof that men are coming
from the East without being solicited
Henry T.. Scott showed handful OF letters
from molders who are anxious to come to
the Coast. he parted with the folio wing
specimens OF this correspondence:
SPECIMEN CORRESPONDENCE.
SALEM tMass.). March 27, 1890.
Union Iron Works: saw an lad" in the
Boston Globe for iron-rnolders with good wages
and steady WORK. Please state wages and bar.
ticulars aud obge,
HUDSON (Massl March %, 1890.
Sir: Seeing notice In the Boston Globe say
ing that you were IN want OF some iron-molders
Thought would write you few lines. have
worked nj the mOlding business a good many
years on both bench ana floor work. Have
worked on locomotives, printing presses and
cotton machinery. Am what you might call q
man of very steady habits. Please answer i'm
mediately, stating terms and what The work is.
SIN one month";" Henry t. Scott de-
clared, this city will be Hooded with
mo'ders and the strike viii be over"
Irving NJ. Scott, who returned from the
East on Sunday. said that while passing
through Granger he saw two carloads of
boilers consigned to this city. In his opin-
ion, if the manufacturers do not win the
strike, the iron industry of the city is
destroyed.
The Cigar-makers' Union has donated
500 to the strikers.
LOST BY REASON OF THE STRIKE.
It is stated that the iron-work for
building which is being erected by the State
at Folsom will be supplied by Eastern
firms. as it could not be done by local firms
on account OF the strike. 1t was also
learned last night that the man who was
taken to the Police Station as a yagrant
had been caught by the molders as he was
about to enter the Risdon Iron Works. He
was followed to this city by Oakland pick
cts. who posted the Executive Committee.
1t is said that after being released he went
back to the Risdon works.