Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-19
THE moULDERs DIFFICULTY.
A Committee Calls on the MaySr-Ffe Refers Them 10 His Son, Henry R. Sargent - What Assistant SuperIn- Iendent Shaw Says.

4 Committee Calls on the MaySr-He
 Refers Them 10 His Son, Henry R.
 Sargent What Assistant SuperIn-
 tendent Shaw Says.
 A committee consisting of fifteen of the unemployed moulders who went out from Sargenta factory Monday mornirg called on the mayor yesterday morning The call vss the result of the meeting held at the Franklin house the night before. The | committee told the mayor that the trouble resulted in the hiring of a non-union man and that as a result thirty five of the
 moulders had refused to work. The mayor told the men that he was st present out of
 the active management of the business.
 'I have been," he ssid, ''pretty actively
 engaged with the company for the past
 forty yesrs," said the mayor, land think
 have earned vacation. The men did
 not seem to be in any hurry, as 1t Is pretty
 hot weather to work In s foundry. told
 them that my son, Henry B. Sargent, who
 hsd been out of town several days, would
 return to night and that they had better
 wait and rec him. What they will do
 cannot say. I was obliged 10 decline to
 interfere, ss I sm out of 1t. But really this matter does not concern the company.
 E E Lord ia the contractor in the foundry
 and furnishes castings for the company. | The concern furnishes iron, coal and other
 supplies and the contractor hires and pays
 the help and turns out the csstings, which the company buys.
 "The company has nothing more 10 do
 with the moulders than has any other con cern in the city. There would be no lose ! to the company from closing the foundry,
 as business is pretty dull now"
 Before calling on the mayor the mould CTS saw Contractor Lord and Assistant l Superintendent J. H. Shaw.
 | Assistant Superintendent Shaw when asked yesterday if there was anything new s | about the case ssid that there was no strike. t The men would not work becsuse a non, B | union man had been employed and the f company did not ask them. Nothing was a said about dischsrging the men. The msu n referred to applied for work in the south - foundry last Friday and said that hs Wal n out of work and had 8 family on his hands 6 He was set to doing floor work, that is ,- making heavy castings. The other cast l. ings are called bsnch castings. The rnaI @ was not asked whether he was union Oi
 a non-u union man. It makes no difference |. to us as long ss he Is faithful worker ana @ & good citizen. He could see no rsasol j., why the trouble should extend to the othe
 foundries.
 e The company will no. recede from th J. stand they have taken. The non-uniol l. man in question has done nothing wit r. which fault csn be found. but had gon r. ahead and done his work faithfully; bn
 the men said they would not work w!;l l. him, and they were not required to. to Work at the large foundry at the Sal 's gent factory was almost wholly suspende
 yesterday, giving r!ss to 6 report that tn In trouble had extended there. It was found In however, that work had been suspende
 merely on account of the intense heat an r. because work Is very slack just now in th ,e moulding department.
 ie A COMMITTEE TO VISIT MR. SHAW. iu No meeting of the men wss held Is. s evening, but committee will wait upo
 Assistsnt Superintendent Shaw and Col III tractor Lord this morning and try to a or range matters.
 n Quite a crowd of the unemployed mouli Inf CTS gathered at the gates of the factory yS terday morning and watched those vi te went into the factory. They claim that ,b number of non union men went in, and Il Tv union men infer that they are being sn CT stituted in the places of those who refus; V to work. If matters cannot be arranged | to day the strike will be declared on and il va Moulders' union, composed of 250 me r- will support the strike 10 the end.