Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-11
WORK GOES ON AGAIN
The Great Worlds Fair Strike
 Lasts But One Day.
ARBITRATION SETTLES THE FIGHT

The Danger is Past Now and the Work of
 Preparation Goes On-Both Sides Con-
 cede but the Fair Managers Seem to Have
 Gained a vIctOry-BOth NOn-UnIon and
 Union Men Continue.
 CHICAGO, April II. The great strike at the Worlds Fair in which 5000 men em- ployed in the construction department were concerned was amicably settled last night and the men returned to work this morning.
 For 12 hours yesterday, the results of the painstaking expenditure of more than SEQ, 900, 900, the good name of 8 mighty nation and its pledges to the nations of the earth were imperilled and endangered, while men who reaped the benefits of the expenditure of that money argued with the men who controlled, over a question of five cents an hour and the rights of men to think and act as they please within the law
 It took cool heads and temperate blood to guide the dispute to a common issue, but the heads were there, the blood was not wanting, the great White City will be ready for its guests at the time and in the manner which was promised at its birth It was 10 o'clock last night when the meeting between the council of admins tration and the representatives of the build ings trades council came to an agreement which Is to continue throughout the entire period of the exposition, under which fur ther trouble was impossible.
 The men have received the formal con cession of 6 minimum rate of wages, and have yielded to the demand of the Exposi- tion officials, that they may employ any batI, ha ha nrh ho hAr of any labor organization. Resolutions in the shape of an agreement were drawn up and submitted to both sides.
 These resolutions were at once signed by all members of the strikers executive com mittee, representing ths 5000 or 5000 laboring men, and the trouble was over. It was a close call for the exposition, not only for its opening, but for it's success. The work of the men who struck is nearly over, and while they could not have ruined the Fair, they might, by stopping the work, so have delayed matters that the EXposi- tion could not have been in complete readi- ness until the first of August.
 There was great relief expressed on both sides when the thing was over, for the members of the council of administration, and of the strikers committee alike, were fearful of the weight of public opinion which would fall upon the party that opposed or obstructed the success of the Exposition.
 Just why the strike was ever conceived, in the first place, must forever remain a mystery. The men asserted that they had grievances. The management maintained that they had no just cause for complaint. The men presented their side of the case thus: increased pay, compulsory arbitra- tion and the discharge Of non union work men. The last demand they kept in the background. They refused to talk about it, and yet it was really the cornerstone of the trouble
 The union men have been working side by side with the non union men ever since the buildings were begun, and 1t looks rather suspicious when within three weeks of the opening of the Fair these non union men were suddenly found to be SC objectionable that the non union men re sign their places and pay rather than lend countenance to the employ of on-union labor