The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-24

VIII Secretary W nltenead OF Fall River,
was sent TO Boston to seek advice upon
TINS point. They sought the advice of
! Chief Wade of the state police and Attor-
ney General hnowltOn. At the office of
/ the chief of police they received the opin-
Ion that the law would be construed TO be
favorable to the operatives.
A BUSY AFTERNOON.
New Bedford, Aug. 23.-The state board
| of arbitration had a busy afternoon.
/ Chairman Walcott agreed to meet the
/ board here tonight. Mr. Barry this
morning put in a long time with the spin
! ners, who pretty thoroughly placed their
| conditions before him. Meanwhile Mr..
/ Warner was with Mayor Brownell and
| learned that officials views.
The party adjourned to the Parker
/ house, where the mayor played host. Mr.
| Warner tried TO find some of the mill
] managers this afternoon AS near as l
| can find out said he, 1.-THE mill men are
! all out of town, but | suspect they are not
/ inclined to be seen by anyone, especially
/ reporters and state arbitrators. Every
| where am told they are out of town or
| at dinner l don't seem to find them or
| learn of anyone who can"
! Mr.. Warner thought that the mill man
! ayers, acting as if they were
trying to escape a conference,
! was not at all proper, and he
said, 'If they don't show some inclina-
tion TO be fair with the board of arbitra-
| tion, the board will get up public meet
/ ing in New Bedford and see if they can't
| be made to tell something. We have the
| right to subpoena witnesses to a public
! hearing l don't see any reason why, if
the mill men are not willing to let the
| public know their position, in a reasona-
! BILE way, the same as the labor men do,
| they should not be placed on record as
/ the ones who have instigated all this
| trouble"
Mr.. Barry met the Card and Picker
| Help Union executive committee in Spin
ners' hall this afternoon and ascertained
| their views.
Secretary Rose was asked this after
noon what effect the lockout in Fall
| River would nave on the strike. He re-
| piled that he did not think it would cause
any alarm on the part of the operatives
In this city, for, as he looked at the situ-
alton, the lockout will be for only
short time, perhaps not over two weeks.
One mill superintendent interpreted
| the statement that the mills would stop
for some time and then start mp on a re-
| duction to mean that there would be an
other reduction on top of that which is
| now the issue when the mills resumed
work. He was also of the opinion
that if the weavers were going to
make the matter of particulars an issue,
they will never work again in these
mills, for the manufacturersuwi never
give them particulars, and he did not be-
lieve the law would ever allow them to
be so compelled.
He said the present difficulty, from the
manufacturers standpoint, was with the
spiDners and that the weavers would not
be considered at all.
IMPORTANT MEETING.
New Bedford, Mass, Aug. 23.-Repre-
sentatives of the various labor organiza-
tions, spinners, weayers and card and
picker room operatives met tonight with
Mayor Brownell in response to his call
for conference. The state board of ar
bitration and Hon. William w. Grape,
president of the Wamsutta mill corpora
tion, appeared for the mill managers.
The meeting was important inasmuch
| as the first official statement from the
mill managers was made Mayor Brown
/ ell stated that it must be to the interest
| of the citizens and stockholders that some
way should be devised to settle the mat
ters of difference.
Secretary Ross of the spinners' union
said that during two years there had been
a reduction of 23l5 per cent, while the
reduction on fine cloth amounted to 80
per cent.
The spinners were never informed of
the amount of reduction they were to re-
these mills without knowing what they
are to receive. One reduction following
another had undoubtedly caused the
strike.
Matthew Hart, representing the wea-
ver's union, said that since 1884, the
speaker knew wages had been cut down
from $3.50 a week to so per week.
Hon. w. w Grape said he was present
at the request of several mill managers
Mr.. Crapo thought Mayor Brownell did
right in calling the conference in the in
| terests of peace, harmony, contentment
and the prosperity of the community. He
Thought the gentleman had spoken with
| great moderation, but as stockholder
he thought they were wrong and that
! the figures will show it. No one in the
world liked to pay high wages as we'll as
the managers. The times are to blame,
not the managers. When the meeting
adjourned it looked very much as if the
present mill difficulty might be settled by
arbitration.
| PAYING BY THE POUND.
| Lowell, Mass, Aug. 23.-The Merrimac
| mills have begun paying their weavers by
! the pound instead of by the cut, to Offset
| the conditions of weaver's particulars
/ bill The bulk of the production at this
mill is print cloth, and during the month
of July the cuts, which are supposed TO
contain 80 yards each, average 4937
yards The cloth weighs 7O5 yards
to the pound, or about seven
pounds to the cut. Under the new rule
the price paid per pound is a tride over
| 81 cents, making the price paid to the
weavers per cut 1879 cents, as against /
cent as paid under the old system.
weaver running eight looms producing
| forty-twO cuts would, therefore, lose 4
cents a week under the new system.
! This loss to weaverS will probably be
more than made up during the winter
/ months, when the windows are closed and
/ the cloth becomes weighted with the
moist atmosphere of the mill.
LOWELL MILLS RESUME.
| Lowell, Mass, Aug. 23.--It is announced
that the fremont and Suffolk mills will
| open in all departments next Monday
morning, and give employment to 2 300
persons They have been closed since
| July 3.
WEAVERS GO OUT.
| The Massachusettes Strikes Precipi-
|