Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-12
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fected within the next torty-eight hours.
After the agreement had been signed,
Mr.. McCloskey on behalf of the mer-
chants, said there was reason for con-
graduation that the controversy termln-
ated so satisfactorily. He felt confident
that merchants would use their best
endeavors to live up to the contrat
and hoped the other side would do like
wise.
Mr.. John M. Callaghsn, speaking for
the Amalgamated council, said this VS.
not conflict of labor and capital. They
recognized that union is good thing
and had endeavored to have the mer
chants adopt it as such. The merchants
would recognize later on that union Ia
Dor is the best.
At a. m. street cars commenced run
ming on all lines and business was fully
resumed in all branches. There were
forty-three unions or labor organizations
involved in the strike; about half a
dozen of them went ont for alleged
grievances, the others through sympa-
thy.
Great Dissatisfaction.
There was intense Indignation among
large number Of workingmen Friday
morning over the manner i'll which the
strike was settled, and the committee of
five representing the interests of the Ia
berers are openly denounced and
charged with treachery and having sold
out the labor element.
A thousand men were crowded into
Exchange alley Friday morning. They
included whites and blacks, and repre-
sented 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 them out and had
surrendered every point that had been
contended for.
The street car companies have about
broken up the car drivers union and the
contract that was broken will undoubt-
edly remain so. The companies will en-
ploy now union and non-union men in
discriminatory. All the ringleaders on
the street car lines have been discharged
and the unions are SO badly disorganized
that they cannot do anything about the
matter.
Business is gradually being resumed
None of the non union men are beng
discharged.
The colossal failure OF the strike
means that the backbone of the unions
ia broken and that the American Fedora
I1pn VI IIdBbl IN tht VI btDiASpD ~ DAAtS
state.
The question of hours aud wages was
settled Friday
Governor Foster expressed his gratifi-
cation at the settlement, which prevent
ed the necessity of putting the militia
actually on the street, and the mer.
chants are of course abundantly satisfied
with the result Details of men were
kept at all the armofleS until FRIDAY
morning, his eXCellenCy experimenting
that there might be some trouble.
The committee of five representing
the laborers did not go back to their
headquarters when the strike was set
tied, to report the matter to the labor.
srs, who were left to shift for them
selves, and only learned the result oil
the strike through rumor and the morn
ing press. The Indignation of the labor
ing men over the action Of their leaders
who have
Deceived and Deiuded
them is intense. The serille has almost
ruined the labor unions.
The car drivers hustled back to theil
ears. but they wete not taken back un
der the old terms, as they mad broker
the contract, and were told that The
companies reserved the right TO employ
WhOmSOCNer JhCS Cl!Osc' Inc ollly Aioi
taken back We're those who remained
passive and who were forced out, all TIT
monitors and leaders being refused EN-
ployment
The Standard OIL company declined t.
take back their old men and many o
the merchants did likewise, rs most o
them had employed other laborers.
The laborcls who went ont on STRIKE
on Oct. 70. were the transfers, leaders
warehousemel and packers, including
about 300 men The other forty-si,
labor organizations struck through sym
pathy, having no grievances, there wa
nothing in thoir cases to arMtrate, there
fore the paragraphs following the thir
article of ayr, ement between the arb
tration committees were inserted.
The car drivers were included in tn
list of sympathetic strikers, and hay
lost all the benefits they had gained b
previous STRIKES
Many other labor organizations are l
the same fix. mont union men haVln
been employed in their places.
Lizzie IIordeu Indicted.