The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-26
BOYCOTT HELD OFF,
Griffing Iron Works En-
ployes Makes a Com.
mendable Move.
AWAITING Mr.. WILLIAMS REPLY
Pickets Given Instructions To,
Under No Circumstances,
Use Force Coal Min
ers' Strike.
AWAITING Mr. WILLIAMS REPLY

Seldom, if ever, have any locked out work
men behaved more orderly or acted more
fairly with their employers than has the em-
ployes of the Gritfing Iron Company The
locked out men have taken an unexpected
step in the fight. They have requested the
Central Labor Union and Federation of
Trades not to boycott the goods manufae-
tured by the Griffing Company until Presi-
dent Williams decides whether he will re-
employ them or attempt to run his works
with non-union hands
A committee of the locked out men at
tended the meeting the Federation of Trades
in Clarendon Hall, New York, last evening,
and presented full report of the trouble.
The delegates of the Federation were
strongly in favor of ordering boycott, to
take effect Immediately upon the Griffing
goods, but the Committee requested that
this action be deferred until President Will
liams gives a decided answer as to what
stand he will take.
EMPLOYEES CONTENTION.
President Williams has not yet made any
statement said the Chairman of the COM
mittee, land we want to give him ample
time to consider our terms. l do not be-
lieve that he will employ non union men. as
there are not enough of them unemployed to
run his works. To employ green hands
would be folly, as the company would lose
several thousand dollars a week by SO doing.
So far as l can see the only way
in which Williams can resume operations is
by re-employing us, and we are sanguine
that we will be re-employed at the old scale
of wages" The Federation of Trades con-
Cured with the committee in its views after
it heard this statement and decided not to
how tbo Gy.iffs ba al-oH
out men tell them to do SO. Before adjourn
ing the Federation passed a resolution
promising support to the locked out men.
The meeting of the Independent Iron
Workers Association at Tanners Hall this
morning, was attended by over two hundred
of the employees. The report of the commit
tee, which visited the Federation of Trades,
Yves received, and the action of the members
in requesting the Federation not to order a
boycott was endrsed by unanimous vote.
One of the pickets who was on duty at the
works yesterday afternoon reported that he
had lively time with two men who wanted
to enter the works and ask for employment.
He said that the men persisted i'll their eff
forts to go into the works, and that they did
not reconsider their determination until he
threatened them with violence This report
raised a storm of protests and the picket
was severely scored for threatening vio-
lence.
MUST NOT THREATEN.
The chairman of the meeting said
81 want every man to understand that no
member of this association has any right to
threaten to harm anyone in search of en-
ployment. One of our most rigid rules is
that no member shall threaten violence.
If we break this rule the public senti-
ment which has, up to the present, been
with US will go against us. Unless we have
the public with US we cannot win. You can
stop men, in search of work, and explain to
them that if they take employment they will
fill dissatisfied workingmans place. If,
after this, they want to go to work, let
them When any picket threatens violence
he exceeds his authority"
1t was reported at the meeting that Will
lam Earle and B. Lepman, machinists, re-
turned to work this morning.
Negroes Take Place of Strikers.
WEIR CITY, Kas., April 26, 1S94.-An
agent of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
road Company of Birmingham, Ala, is at
work here among the negro miners eldeavor-
ing to induce them to go into the Birming-
ham mines in place of the strikers there
About 100 colored miners were secured at
Cherokee and sent to Birmingham last night.