The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-04
THE LOCKOUT ENDED
Grlffing Works Employees
Effect a Compromise with
President Williams.
TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT.
Laborers' Wages Increased Twenty
five Cents a Day-To Be
a Union Shop.

The locked out employees of the Grifiing
Iron Company have at last come to a settle
ment with the officials of the company, and
tomorrow the works will start up after an
enforced idleness of six weeks. This re-
sumption of work is more of victory for
the company than for the employees. On
Saturday afternoon committee from the
Steamfitters' Union Of New York visited
the ks and held lengthy conference
with the officials Just what was accom-
plished at the conference will not be made
public as the locked out employees refuse
to state on what conditions the settlement
was effected. 1t is rumored that the
majority of the employees will return to
work at the reduced scale of wages, and that
the only advance the company will make IN
the schedule of wages will be that of the
laborers who will receive $l.50 day in
stead OF SIPS. There are but one hundred
and twenty-five laborers in the works and
the company has effected a settlement rather
| cheaply.
THE employees RETICENT.
One of the locked-out employees, when in
| terviewed by a reporter Of The JERSEY CITY
| NEWS this morning said;-"A compromise
| has been arranged that is satisfactory to all
parties concerned, The committee of steam
| filters which conferred with the officials on
| Saturday was well received. The officials
were notified that we were willing to COM
promise the matter and they prepared a
| schedule of wages that was accepted
'On what conditions was the compromise
| effectedso asked the reporter.
~ can't answer that question, as the en-
ployes have promised not to make public the
| terms which we agreed to. All that we care
| to say in regard to this is that the company
went one-half of the way and we went the
other half. The officials have agreed to have
| all the men at work by Saturday All the
departments cannot begin work the same
| day, as one must prepare work for
| the other. The foundry will start up
| with its full complement of men tomor-
row morning. On Wednesday morning
| the men employed In the cleaning depart
ment will resume work, and on Thursday
| the machine shop will start up. The EN-
| ployes who will have to wait the longest are
| those in the shipping department and stock
room, who will not be able to return to work
until Friday. All the hands are satisfied, as
| there is enough work on hand to keep them
| busy all summer"
WILL BE UNION SHOP
| In spite of the fact that the works will
| start up on full time the employees are not as
not as anxious as formerly to give par
| ticulars" to the reporters and this gives a
color of truth to the rumor that only the
| laborers will receive an advance In salary.
| The employees, however, are happy because
| the officials have agreed to allow the men to
make tho works union snop.
The news of the settlement of the difficulty
| is hailed with delight by the storekeepers in
Lafayette and in the vicinity of the juno
tion.n who are more or less dependent upon
the $50 employees of the works for support.
A Ruse of the Strikers.
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