The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-24

plan, and any of the help attempt 10 go back to work under the reduction the result can readily be imagined. r4ere will be riot. and nothing can pi cent It. These mill operatives are ordii ,ily quiet and well disposed citizens, 1ut when they think they are being Imp 5,d upon 1t takes but very little to sta. F a general disturbance. Secretary Ros = the splnners was asked this afternt z, what effect the lockout in Fall RiS 1 would have on the strike. He repli,S 2 that he did not think 1t would causo any alarm on the part of the operative, in this city for. as he looked at the situa. ton. the lockout will be for short sor,Sa end mill superintendent, in an in- Ssfview, said that the help would doubt less feel differently when a week went by without their drawing any wages.
 We will pay off Saturday, and then they will get no money"
 'Then you will pay off the help for what Is on their machines"
 "Yes; We will settle all up with them"
 If the help accept their ray then they will cease to be strikers?"
 "Yes; they will not have any connec- tion with the mill whatsoever"
 Another superintendent interpreted thestatement that the mills would stop for some ime, and then start up on re- duction to mean that there would be another reduction on top of that now, when the mills resumed work. He was also of the opinion that if the weavers were going to make the matter of par ticulars an issue they will never weave again in these mills, for the manufac- turers will never give them particulars. and he did not believe the law would allow them to be so compelled. He said the present difficulty, from the manu- lecturers standpoint, was with the spinners, and that the weavers were not being considered at all.
 Representatives of the various labor organizations, spinners, weavers. card and picker room operatives, met to- night with Mayor Brownell, in response to his call for conference. State board of arbitration and Hon. William W. Crapo president of the Wamsutta mill corporation, appearing for the mill managers, were also present.
 Hon. W. W. Crapo 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 terest of peace, harmony, contentment and prosperity of the community. He thought the gentlemen had spoken with great moderation, but as a stockholder he thought they were wrong, and that figures would show it. This hostility be- tween management and help does not exist. No one in the world would like to pay high wages as we'll as the mill managers. It means good times and prosperity, while low wages mean hard times and want, suffering and debt The times are to blame, not the mana gers.
 Mir. Crapo was glad that the arbitra- tors were present, although he could not see that the mills were willing to arbi- trate. They would. however, give the board every fact in their knowledge. They would open their books for com parison, and let the arbitrators see if the manufacturers were not obliged to reduce wages. He said 1t was impossi- ble for manufacturers to keep wages up when they were falling elsewhere.
 When the meeting adjourned it looked very much as if the present difficulty might be settled by arbitration.