Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-13
Westinghouse Employees Are Still
Enjoying Vacation From the
Routine of Daily Toll.
TIE FIRM RETAINS ITS ATTITUDE.
Strong Probabilities That the Entire
System Will be Involved Before
Many Days Pass.
RAILROAD MAcHINISTs' TURN LATER.
Knight or Brotherhood Painters All One to I'm
players If Union Men.

The position of the Westinghouse strike
renamed unchanged, yesterday. Both the
Garrison alley and Twenty fifth street works
ing at work in the former, and some laborers
at the latter. 1t was said that the airbrake
and switch and signal men would come out
at noon yesterday, but they did not do SO.
The Executive Committee, composed of
representatives from all departments of the
works, were in session yesterday, at
Lafayette Hall One of the number stated
officially, that resolution had been passed
requesting the men to act as gentlemen, as
heretofore.
1t was also stated in another quarter that
a committee representing 25 carpenters en-
ployed at the Garrison alley works had
called on Acting Superintendent Schef1er,
representing that they were being paid 25
cents per day less than the reg ular trade
price and worked and hour longer each day.
1t was said that Mr.. Schefler had promised
that they should work but nine hours If
they returned to work and that the question
Of wages would receive consideration. This
statement Mr.. Scheffler subsequently re-
futed entirely. In connection with the gen.
eral position of affairs, he said, when seen
by a DISPATCH reporter, that q full an
swer, and the only answer he could give to
the petition Of the employees, was that en-
bodied in his answer, copy Of which sp-
peared in Sundays DISPATCH.
no RECENT COMMUNICATION.
The management was willing to abide by
that letter and grant the employees 54-hour
week from the LIST of September. He said
that be had had no communication from or
with the men since He added that he had
not see any carpenters. and that those men
whom they employed as carpenters were:re-
quired to do only the work of boxmakers,
and so were hardly entitled to the same pay
as regular craftsmen. Asked if the COM
pany was disposed to keep its works closed
down until the LIST of September to
see whether its employees would
bic. He could not outline what policy his
company would pursue. He rather thought
it would find men TO fill the vacant shops,
but there was no hurry for day or two, as
work at this time of year was not very brisk.
he already had applications from half
dozen or so of men for positions, and did not
anticipate any difficulty in obtaining men
when the occasion should arise. He was
quite clear, however, that his company
would not yield to the demand put forward.
The employees strongly controvert the
statement that work is slack at this season.
On the contrary, they hold that the COM
pany is being pushed in Its orders, and that
it cannot afford to keep its plant closed down
day longer than it can avoid. They point
out that they have been required to work
overtime three days out of six, and mention
the fact oil $50 motors ordered in connection
with the new cars being built at Pullman
as evidence of what work the company has
on hands at at present.
DOESN'T SCARE THEM.
The intimation that new men would be
employed to fill their places does not cause
the strikers any uneasiness. They allege
that men skilled in the class OF work re-
quired of the Westinghouse employees are
not picked up on street corners, and that the
company would lose more than it would
gain by taking on new hands.
Mr.. Scheff1er said, during the interview
already alluded to, that the strikers had
pickets out to prevent some of the men who
were anxious to return from reaching the
building. The employees deny that this is
so. When visit was made to Garrison
alley the place was found deserted and quiet
as possible. None of the employees were
seen in the neighborhood. The number of
hands employed at these works is 950 all
of whom are out with the exception of about
25 girls employed in the carbon department.