The state chronicle., 1892-11-12
CHARGED WITH TREACHERT
THE NEW ORLEANS STRIKE DE-
CLARED OFF
And the Strikers are Indignant at the
settlement Agreed to by the Lead
ers, Whom They Say Were Bought.


ers. Whom They Say Were Bought.
By Telegraph to the State Chronicle.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. 11.-At ?
o'clock this morning the strikes were de
clared off 1t is agreed:
l. That the laborers who went out on
strike OF October %, 1892, shall be
taken beck to their employment as soon
as they offer their services in so far as it
does not conflict with contracts already
made.
2 Wages and hours to be arbitrated
B. It further agreed that the mer
chants, boss draymen and other employ
ers obligate themselves not to make any
unjust discrimination against union men
but always give their applications for en-
ploymeLt first consideration. The mer
chants and other employers reserving to
themselves the right to deal directly with
the men. The parties to this agreement
declare that they will use their best en-
deavors to adjust any differences which
may result or may have resulted from
any strike made from sympathy with the
strike here above referred to in accord
ance with the above terms.
| The arbitration clause (2) is to be eff
fected within the next forty eight hours.
| There is intense Indignation among a
large number of the workingmen this
morning over the manner in which the
! strike was settled and the committee of
| five representing the interests of the Ia
borers is openly denounced and charge d
with treachery and having sold out the
labor element. A thousand men were
| crowded into Exchange alley this morn
ing They included whites aud blacks,
and represented many men who had
been unable to secure their places again.
They have been out for nearly three
weeks and their families are in want
The leaders, they said, had sold then
out and had surrendered every point
that had been cOntended for.
The street car companies have about
broken up the car drivers union and tht
| contract that was broken will undoubt
edIy remain so. The companys will eIn
| plov new union and non union men il
discriminatory All the ring leaders or
the street car line have been discharged
and the unions are so badly disorganizec
that they cannot do anything about tht
matter. Business is being gradually re
sumed None of the non union men ar
being discharged.
The collosal failure of the strik
means that the backbone of the union
is broken and that the American FEEDER
alton of Labor is out of business ia thi
state The question Of hours aud wage
will be settled today.
Gov Foster expressed his grat!ticatio
to day at the settlement which prevente
the necessity Of putting the militia ac
tually on the streets and the merchant
are of course abudantly satisfied vii
the result Details of men were kept :
!, all the armories until this morning, Il
excellency apprehending that there migf
: be some trouble.
At 6 a m street cars commenced rur
I ming on al lines aud business to day WI
be fully resumed in all branches tt
committee of five, representing the labo
ers, old not go back to their headqua
tiers this morning when the strike ws
settled. to report the matter to the labo
ers, who were left to shi
5 for themselves, and only fearne
the result Of the strike through rumt
and the morning press. The indignatio
+. of the labofing men over the action
/ their leaders who have deceived and d
0 luded them, is intense. The strike h
t almost ruined the labor unions. The c
drivers hustled back to their cars tn
: morning but they were not taken back u
e der the old terms, as they had broken Il
t contract and were told that the col
S panies reserved the right to empl'
t whomsoever they chose. The only m'
d taken back were those who RENAME
|, passive and who were forced out, all t
y monitors and leaders being refused er
Ii ployment.
It The standard oil company declined
j. take their old men and many of the me-
l. chants did likewise, as most of them h
J. employed other laborers. The laborel
e warehouse men and packers, includil
about 1900 men, the other forty S
labor organizations, struck through syl
pathy. having no grievances, There W
nothing in their case to arbitrate, thel
IS fore the paragraph following the thl
n article of agreement between the arbit
or tion committees was inserted. The {
er drivers were included in the list
L sympathetic strikers and have lost
, the benefits tLey had gained previous
is the strike Many other labor organic
1: tions are ia the same fix, non union m
er having been employed in their places.