Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-24
ALL WILL QUIT WORK
INDICATIONS THAT THE LOCOMOTIVE
WORKS STRIKE WILL BE GENERAL.
Tho Mouiders Go out and tho Carpenters
VIII Withdraw To-Day-Both Sides
Remain tirm.

on both brass and iron-work joined tho
| strikers yesterday about noon. and reso-
luton was adopted by the Carpenters
Union last night instructing It's members
to withdraw at II o'clock to-day.
This indicates that the advice of the
Trades Council will be accepted and that
there will be o general strike IN all depart
ments unless Overturos are made by the
| company before Saturday, and this does
not appear at al. likely.
Both sides are firm in the POSITIONS
taken by them from the start, and there IS
seemingly no prospect OF either yieldlug:
With each it appears TO be matter or
principle which they not at oil inclined to
sacrifice. and while the hope is entertained
on all sides that the trouble may be
speedily and amicably adjusted the pros
pect for such result is by no means
bright.
THE MoULDEIs OUT.
Yesterday morning a committee from
the IRON and brass-moulders Informed
Mr. Gilmore. the foreman of that
shop. that they would not continue, TO
work il their castings were 10 be handled
by "scabs." Mr.. Gilmore asked the men
to wait until General Manager Davis came.
When Mr. Davis came he went into the
shop and called the men together ana had
a long talk with them, but said he could
do nothing more for them than he dld Tor
the machlnists.
Receiving this unfavor0ble reply the
moulders, some fifty in all, went out.
CARpESrEEs TO WITHDRAW.
At the regular meeting of the Carpenters
and Joiners' Union, No. 1872, held last
night at Wilkinson's Hall the following
resolution was adopted endorsing the
Trades Council and staining the action
of the machinists ut the locomotive
works:
Rcso'red, That we withdraw our men,
bers from the Richmond Locomotive
and Machine-WOrks Tuesday at noon.
The attendance was large and the resolu-
tiOn was unanimously adopted.
ALL MAY STOP.
The Trades Council held an adjourned
meeting SUNDAY afternoon at O'Clock.
This body, of which Councilman }. y.
Irower is president. is composed OF hye
delegates from each Of the nineteen trades
unions in the city. The Richmond Loco
motlve-Works machinists' strike was the
only subject discussed.
The following was adopted as the sense
of the meeting:
Ees1iucd That il Is the sense of this
Trades Council, and we do SO recommend,
that the most manly manner OF setting
the strike at the LOcOmOtive-WOr Is a
general strike. and we. therefore, recon-
mend that each union order its members
out next Saturday at II o'clock unless the
trouble with the machlnlsts be satlstac-
| factOrily settled before that hour.
In all there are about 600 men employed
at the works, 50 if they and the company
! both remain firm the strike will assume
considerable magnitude by the end OF this
week.
NOT AT ALL wEAT-KEEED.
The striking machinists, who were IN
session until nearly II o'clock Saturday
night, held another meeting yesterday
| lasting from 10 a. NJ. TO i. N.
The entire session was devoted TO hear
| In. the reports of the various committees
| aLl in the discussion OF points, mostly
| financial ones, bearing on the strike. BE
| fore adlOUrnlng the men reafhrmed their
| determination to stand up for their prln-
| ciples. 80.
There were present at this meeting l33
men. those composing the Vigilance Cow
| mittcc-hfteen-bc being absent IN the dls-
| charge of their duties.
This Vigilance Committee. TO which five
| more members were added yesterday,
! ,.ttinr twenty III all, does duty in the
naighborhood OF the works. 1t does not
| eyercise arbitrary methods, but simply ap-
meals TO such men as it was thought were
inclined TO 90 to work and laid before
them the facts in the case from the stanr,
point of the strikers. The commlttt 9
went on duty at O'Clock Yesterday and
was, therefore. not present al the lO o'clock
meeting.
The other committees are the Press,
with five members. and the Ways and
Means. upon the latter of which deyolves
the duty of providing the withdrawn
workmen with such pecuniary and as Is
needtul.
ADVISED THEM TO RETURN.
The machinists when thcv struck last
Thursday advised the apprentices TO return
10 work and stay there
The Grievance Committee emphaticaly
denies that 1t did not, as stated or lnti-
mated by Mr. Davis. fully represent to the
men the result of their talk with him at
the works Thursday before striking. They
insist positively that while the committee
did not repeat word for word the state
ments and restatements made IN the one
and-a-half-hour interview with Dir. Davis
they reported 10 the men in substance the
purport of all that was eaid by him.
At the meeting Saturday night the vigil
lance Committee str ed that no new men
had gone TO work tuat day.
The members Of this committee watch
the approaches TO the works, and II tney
see what they take % be a union man from
another city going % the works they eX-
plain to him the cause OF tho strike. They
say that they use neither persuasion nor
threats, but as vet none OF the union men
who have been out there have taken work.
THE MANAGER ENDoRsTD.
The Board of Directors of the LocomO-
tive Works Company held special meet
ing yesterday afternoon, at which they DIS
cussed the strike and adopted a resolution
endorsing the course pursued by General
Manager Davis.
BEEN BREWING FOR MONTHS.
As intimated in the DISPATCH Friday,
whom the strike was first reported, this
trouble has been brewing for many
months. Last summer or IN the early iall
the management were approached on the
subject, and the result OF the conference,
it is SAID, was not entirely satisfactory,
though there was no rupture. The men
now say that the strike would have oc-
Cured then, but that they were not IN u
condition TO quit work. 1t seems that me
same man who was the indirect cause
of the present outbreak was also the cause
of the trouble at that time. 1he company
then insisted upon keeping Hanslord at
the machine and the men submitted under
protest, feeling that they were IN no con-
dition TO do otherwise.
Last Thursday when the same man, was
selected TO take charge of an engine lathe
they felt that their self-respect and prln::
ciple as mechanics would not admit OF
their continuing at work, especially as
their union was now in strong condition.
DIsCRIMINATKD AGAINST.
A point made by the strikers IN their ar
gument with Mr.. DAVIS WAS that IN the
foundry. where the moulders have strong
union, none but skilled labor has ever been
employed. The machinists thought TINS
was due TO the fact that the moulders were
able 10 take care of themselves whlle the
former were not entirely 50.
Sixteen out of the emneteen trades unions
in Richmond have promised financial neip
to the strikers, precluding al possloiilty
of their coming to want IN their hSht lor
the rights of organized labor.
In the foundry at the works IS an I'M
mense cylinder for the ship-yard at New
port News, which the company Is under
contract 10 complete in specified time.
The macninists will meet again this
morning at 10 O'clock.
At other Places.
The differences at the Vulcan works nave
been satisfactorily settled. The rolling
mill and foundry started up yesterday with
full forces, and the operatives IN other de;
partments who held out Saturday decided
yesterday to accept the terms 70 which
h. haf n on