People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18


Brockton, Mass.
STRIKE SETTLED.-To whom II may
concern:
This is to certify that the boycott placed
on the Crawford shoe by the American
Federation of Labor. at the convention
held in Birmingham, Ala. in December,
1891, by order Of the Brockton Branch of
the L. P. U. Of America. is this day de-
clared off, as an agreement satisfactory
to the Brockton Branch OF the L. P. U.
Of America and the Bouve, Crawford &
Co. Corporation, maker of the Crawford
shoe, has this day been reached.
GEORGE N. HUBBARD,
PATRICK l.. SHEA,
JOSEPH T. CARNEY,
Committee for L. P. U. Of A.
To whom it may concern:
This is to certify that the differences
heretofore existing between the firm OF
Bouve, Crawford G. Co. and the Brockton
Branch Of the L. P. U. of America have
been amicably settled.
We recommend the Crawford shoe to all
members of our craft, and to Trades
Unionists and members of local organiza-
tions in general.
BROCTON BRANCH L. P U. OF A.
DAVID FITZGERALD,
President.
GEORGE H. HUBBARD,
Secretary.
Centerville, Iowa.
900 MINERS OUT.-Six hundred min
ers, representing the 5000 employed in
this district, met and after careful all
days discussion, decided unanimously to
demand the scale agreed to by their rep
resentatives and the operators in session
at Ottumwa. Wherever this scale is ac-
cepted the miners will work, but the atti-
tude of the operators in this district, ex-
cept the White Breast and Block Coal
Companies, is such that a strike is in
evitable, and on Monday at least $500
miners walked out. The agreement
reached between the miners and operators
at Ottumwa was unanimously Endorsed as
follows:
I'm a joint meeting of the Iowa coal
operators, with the Miners Executive
Committee of Iowa, 1t was resolved that
the scale Of mining wages from April l,
1895, to April /, 1896, shall be the same as
the so-called 1893 scale for mining, and
the % scale for day wages, with the usual
differentials, with the same prices for
powder and smithing, except that in the
Des Mones district the scale shall be soc
per ton of 1000 pounds screened coal for
the six summer months, and 9Oc per ton
for the six winter months except, also,
that all operators in the Appanoose dis
trict shall have the privilege of putting
in track scales and loading their coal
under the same conditions as operators
now having track scales, and
all parties agree to maintain
such scale, as far as practi-
cally possible, but no operator shall re-
duce wages, nor shall the miners at any
time demand an increase of mining wages
except after action by the Executive Com
mittees, operators and miners at joint
meeting, to be held and terminated not
more than five days after notice is given
to the Chairman of either committee.
1T is hereby agreed by the operators
whose signatures are hereto attached,
that they will, upon the written request OF
their employees, deduct from their earn
ings 81 per month from the first moneys
earned by them and pay the same over to
any treasurer whom they may select. II
is further resolved that it is the intention
of the parties here to deal fairly with
their men, and that they stand ready Ia
redress any wrongs. This arrangement
is intended to cover the period until April
l, 1896, subject to the conditions herein.
before expressed.
Dated March %, 1895.
Signed by White Breast Fuel Compa-
ny, by G. W. Traer. Vice President; Gen.
tervile Block Coal Company, by Alexan.
der Garbell; Wapello Coal Company, H. l.
Waterman, Vice President, and C. D.
Ives; Phillips Fuel Company, Henry Phil.
lips, Secretary; Smoky Hollow Coal Com.
pany, ]. ]. Evans. For the mine workers
by the Executive Board, John W. Rey.
nolds, President; ]. T. Garrison, Julius
Froman, Secretary and Treasurer; Thos
]. Cavanaugh."
The agreement was forwarded to al
the operators in the State, with the hops
that all would sign, and thus avoid the
strike, which, virtually backed by tn,
operators of all the big mines. will involve
serious complications, from which it will
take years to recover.
Missouri miners were also represented
and the strike will enter into that State.
Providence, II. 1.
NO TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE
All danger of strike in the textile indus
tries of Rhode Island is over, for tn,
present. at least, owing to an unexpected
move on the part of the Rhode Islant
Manufacturers Club. When the opera
tives arrived at the factory they found
notice posted in every mill stating tina
the manufacturers would close their fac