The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-10
PROSPECT OF A BIG STRIKE.
UNION MEN AT THE WORLDS FAIR
GROUNDS TO QUIT WORK.
About Eight Thousand Workmen In
voIYed-Big WaIk-Out Oh the
Santa Fe System.



CHICAGO, April Sat o'clock to-mor-
row morning every union man working
| for the Worlds Fair Columbian EXPOSE
ton Company is expected to quit work
! 1t is estimated that between four and five
thousand men will quit. They come
from almost every division of workers
on the ground. 1t required four meet
ings of agents of the unions to decide the
| question of ordering all the men out, but
it is said to have been made plain. The
only other recourse left was for the or
ganization to acknowledge its defeat.
None of the delegates would agree to this,
and an order for strike was the result
The buildings trades council which
passed the resolution calling out the men
address a long communication to the
council of administration, declaring that
the laboring men have been friendly to
the fair and saying: 1--WE do not mean
TO charge any one with bad faith, but we
do mean to say that the agreement that
eight hours should constitute a DAVIS
work, and all differences to be submitted
to arbitration, were never fully adhered
to by you, and at this time, as we look at
it, the council of administration is about
to finally decline to arbitrate the differ
| ences between organized labor and the
exposition"
The address then asks the council to
| submit the matter to three arbitrator. a
decision to be rendered Wednesday next,
both parties agreeing beforehand to ac-
cept the same.
II don't know exactly what is to be
DONE" said Director G eneral Davis to-
night, ''but one thing is certain, the work
must be finished. My opinion is that
the contractors will be more affected by
the strike than our own construction de-
partment."
STRIKE OF SANTA FEE EMPLOYEES.
TOPEKA (Kan.), April 9.-Eleven hun
dred machinists, boiler-makers, black
smiths and helpers in the shops of the
Santa Fe road struck yesterday afternoon
for an advance in wages and other de-
mands, with fellow-work men in the
same lines along the entire system, their
demands having been definitely re-
jected by the management. They are:
An increase of twenty five cents per day
in wages; that inexperienced men shall
not be required to do the work of skilled
mechanics, and that when the expenses
are to be reduced the men are not to be
discharged, but the hours reduced. The
strike was wholly unexpected, except by
the mon themselves, as no hint of the
trouble had reached the public.
The strike, however, has been brewing
several weeks, and the demands have
been the subject of numerous meetings of
grievance committees and of much CORE
spondence with the management. Finally,
on Thursday, the ultimatum of the men
was placed in writing and copies were
sent to General Superintendent Nicker-
son and Superintendent of Machinery
John Player. The management was
notified that unless the company signed
the proposed schedule of wages by noon
yesterday the men would quit. No at
tention was paid to the notice.
The men had been led to believe until
the very hour when they quit that the
management would sign the new sched-
ule, and when they were ordered by the
committee chairman not to resume work
until o'clock the order was unexpected,
but the men made no protest.
Strikes of the Santa Fe employees also
occurred at Port Madison, Ia; Ration, n.
NJ, and La Junta, Col.
No developments were presented in
the strike to-day and the seriousness of it
cannot be approximated before to-mor-
row. The strikers are 10th to give out
particulars oftheir grievances and those of
them who know the exact terms of the
proposition submitted by the Grievance
Committee 10 the railroad company adj
init that there is little if any difference SO
far as wages are concerned. The real
point at issue is whether the company
shall enter into a written contract with
the three unions controlling the shops or
continue to deal with the men as indi-
vidusls, as it has been doing. So tar no
excitement has been manifested.
WILL STRIKE TODAY
BosroN, April 9.-The Boiler makers
and Iron Shipbuilders' Union of this
city has resolved to strike tomorrow.
The strike will involve 800 men, and will,
temporarily at least, stop all work on the
cruiser Marblehesd.