The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-28
ANOTHER STRIKE.
The Forty-eleventh Trouble Hits
the Worlds Fair.
THOSE DREADFUL CARPENTERS AGAIN.
Union Men to BE Withdrawn from Ger
tain Contractors who Have Not
Signed the Agree
mept.

| CHICAGO, April 24.-Another misfor-
tune is in store for the worlds fair offi-
cials. Last week it was old Boreas
who brought grief to the denizens OF
the white city; this week it is to be a
strike of carpenters.
When the carpenters employed at
jackson park go to work to-day they
will find the gates of the exposition
grounds guarded by Gordon OF union
delegates. These delegates have strict
orders to allow no union carpen-
ter working for the exposition company
or those contractors who have not
ters' council to enter within the grounds
The scenes of two weeks ago are to be
repeated. Net only viii the union
carpenters at the fair strike
but all over the city, by order
of President j. B. Cogswel, all
union carpenters working for contract
ors who have not signed the agreement
must quit work This order will throw
over 1900 men out of employment to
uphold the unions demand, that its
| members shall not be compelled to
! labor with non-union vOrllmcn. The
| strike was resolved upon at Il mass
meeting of carpenters held at battery
| ID armory yesterday afternoon. Fifteen
| hundred men were present and the vote
| TO strike was unanimous.
i strike at the worlds fair grounds,
even one of small proportions, will be
serious matter 1T this particular time
/ =.
| 8, coo carpenters now 1T work in Jack
/ son park it is estimated that 400 or $50
will be affected by the present order.
| This compromises the men working for
the Exposition company and those in
the employ of less than half Il dozen
| contractors, the great majority of
| the contractors having complied with
the unions demands. While the num-
| Der of men affected is comparatively
small it will he blow to the EXpOsi-
tion company inasmuch as it will be
/ impossible to secure men to take the
| strikers place on short notice. The
present strike is due to the dissatisfac-
| ton of the carpenters at the outcome
| of the strike of two weeks
ago. At that time all the unions in
the building trades employed at
| the grounds struck to sustain the de
mands of the carpenters. but after be-
ing out one day they reached Il settle
ment with the worlds fair managers
without consulting the carpenters, and
although the name of President CogS-
well. of the Carpenters union, was
| signed to the agreement that gentle
man was not present when the paper
was signed and now denied that he
authorized the affixing of his signature
| to the document.
Director-General Davis said last even
| ing that the strike would be a serious
matter for the fair as the slightest de-
| lay at this time could not fail to inter
fere with the plans of the managers.
While the number of men who would
quit was small, yet the loss of their SER
vices would be felt. He did not know
what course the fair officials would
adopt, but he had no doubt the diff
more serious ones had been. He thought
the course of the union carpenters was
entirely unreasonable and indefensible
| The worlds fair could not discriminate
| against any class of workmen. The
union men had worked with non-union
men for two years and to complain at
this late day the director-general
thought was showing disposition to
| Inc rlnfair