The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-12
UNION AND NON UNION MEN
To Be Entitled to Equal Con-
sideratiOn.
Was a Close Call for the Great
Exposition.
The Result Due to Conference Be-
tween Representatives of the Labor
ing Men and the Worlds Fair Coun-
Gil of AdministratiOn-The Strikers
Not To BE Disseminated Against
Because of the Trouble.

CHICAGO, April 10.-The great strike at
the worlds fair is thing of the past and
the men who walked out this morning
will walk back again tomorrow morning,
and ninety-nine out of every hundred
will work for the same hours aud Same
paw they received before they struck.
For the fret time since its inception or
ganized labor came sguarely in contact
with the U. S. government. and while all
questions OF wages were satisfactorily set
tied, the right of the employer to hire
non-union or union men, the right of men
to be in the ranks OF organized labor or
without them, was insisted upon by the
national representatives and acknOwl-
edged by the union men themselves.
Something at stake.
For twelve hours today the results of
the painstaking expenditure of more than
$4,000, 600, the good name of a mighty
nation and its pledges to the nations of
the earth, were imperiled and endan-
gered, while men who reaped the benefits
of the expenditure of that money argued
with the men who controlled over a ques-
tion of cents an hour and the rights of
men to think and act as they please
within the law. 1t took cool heads and
temperate blood TO guide the dispute to
peaceful issue, but the heads were there,
the blood was not wanting, the great
white city will be ready for it's guests at
the tIne and in the manner which were
| promised at its birth.
1t was 10 o'clock tonight when the
meeting between the council OF admins
| tIation and the representative, OF the
| building trades council came TO an agree
ment which is 10 continue throughout the
entire period of the exposition, and un-
der which further trouble was i'm possible.
| The men have received the formal cOnces-
sion of minimum rate OF wages and have
| welded TO the demand of the exposition of
| ficials that they may employ any man.
whether he be or be not member OF any
| labor organization.
A Proposition Submitted.
The fret step looking toward peace was
made this afternoon when a committee of
the strikers was appointed to submit to
the worlds fair council of administration
the following proposition:
That if the worlds fair council will agree 20
submit the differences between the men and
the exposition to arbitration at y. m., April
10. the building aud trades council will order
the men back 10 work at once pending the re-
suit of arbitration. The building and trades
council binds itself to abide Ly tho decision of
the arbtrators One arbitrator TO be selected
by the building and trades council. one by the
worlds fair management. and q third by these
two.
This proposition was submitted to the
council of administration as the labor
mems ultimatum. The council of admin
istration was in session and promptly re-
turned an answer that it was prepared 10
meet the men at once. The matter must
be settled soon-it could be settled then
as well as at any other time. To this the
committee agreed, and the result was a
meeting which for long hours went over
all the aspects of the case, with but two
short adjournments, one by each side, for
consultation.
The Resolutions.
At 10 o'clock tonight the council of ad-
ministration presented to the executive
committee of the strikers the following
resolutions. which were preceded by
short preamble setting forth the existence
OF the strike:
Resolved, In the employment OF workmsn
or artisans in the several trades represented by
said executive committee for the performance
Of work under the direct charge and supervl-
sion of the worlds Columbian exposition. rep
resentatves of union or organised labor shall
be entitled to equal consideration with those of
nOn-union and that the workmen heretofore
employed by this exposition company who
who have this day gone out on strike, shall not
be refused employment hereafter on that ac-
count it being the express purpose OF the coun-
Gil that organized labor, as such, shall not be
Disseminated against; and,
Resolved, Further, that there shall be paid
to every artisan so employed by the exposition
company at least the minimum rate OF wages
prescribed for the trade in which he is en-
ployed; and
Resolved That an authorized representative
| or delegate of each OF said trades shall be fur
nished with pass emitting him to free admis-
sion to the grounds and shall have the right to
confer with the workmen of his trade at all
times, provided such conference shall not ma
terially interfere with retard the work.
Resolved, further, That the concessions made
in and by the foregoing resolutions. are so
made with the distinct understanding that they
shall be accepted by said executive committee
as a full settlement and solution OF the present
controversy; that the men who have gone on
strike shAll return to work at once. and that
the provisions and stipuations of said resou-
tiOns shall continue in force and be operative
during the whole period OF the exposition.
Close CAN for the Fair.
These resolutions were at once signed
by all members OF the strikers executive
committee representing the eight or nine
thousand laboring men, and the trouble
was over. 1t was close call for the ex
position, not only for it's opening. but for
it's success The work OF the men who
struck today is nearly over, and, while
they could not have ruined the fair, they
might, by stopping the work, so have de-
layed matters that the exposition could
not have been In complete readiness by
the lst of August. There was great relief
expressed by both sides when the thing
was over, for the members OF the coun-
Gil OF administration and OF the