The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-30
FIGHT is in
FULL SWING
BrOcktOn'S COmbatants
Are Unyie.ding.
THE RIGHT OF DEFENSE.
-AslN .Lya -a..uan-OD o Falan ,Noi
Knobsiick Who Drew a Revolver
Discharges by Employer.
INCOMING OF THE ARMENIANS.

Brockton, Sept. 3o.-The fight between
the Lasters' union for the new price list
and OF the Lasters' unions OF south
eastern Massachusetts against the Con-
solidated Machine company is In full
blast. Neither side shows the least
sign of conceding point. The union
lists took up the fight with the machine
company because they claimed that the
latter mixed in the fight over the price
list when ii had no right to do so.
A careful canvass i'm the headquarters
OF the union and the various affected
shops fails to show who is winning the
battle. Many OF the manufacturers
claim TO be practically idle, and yet it
is known that they are working. They
make this statement. IL is claimed in
order to keep strikers from coming near
their factories. Others are putting on
q more cheerful aspect. and are known
to be doing little. Outside OF the three
factories which have shut down il is
known that some work is being done.
AS the manufacturer only has TO pay
for what he gets. he can get little
money for himself for the goods. The
strikers. on the other hand. are living
on what they have saved. and this in
most cases is small. They are helped
by 50-cent a week tax on the men who
are now working in shops not affected.
and by money contributed by merchants
In response to solicitations. No striker
has yet publicly made complaint of his
lot. but there are few disgruntled
ones.
AS the battle continues the men are
becoming careful OF how they spend
their money. At first il looked like a
short, sharp fight with the men as win
ners. and they were free with their
money. IL is changed now. and though
they still claim 10 be winning. the money
u more carefully used.
The incoming OF the Armanians and
Poles has been the worst feature of the
strike. as IL has been the direct cause
of all rioting and trouble. The strikers
are not making any demonstrations.
but their sympathizers and the curious
exhibit their feeling. Judge Reed an
nounced in the police court yesterday
morning, when ne discharged prisoner
who had drawn a revolver, that man
hdu q W piplttN nllIlStn .NHfIl nv
was pursued by mob. and could take
the law into his own hands. The men
at work will probably take advantage
of this, and In the future knives and re.
yolvers are likely to figure I'm the demon
stratioDs. The police protection has
been extra strong where trouble is
looked for, and every effort is being
made to preserYe order.
serious. and the few arrests made have
encouraged the crowd so that more
trouble is looked for.
Secretary Smith of the union IS salts
fed al the way the battle is going. His
piokets sent nine men home yesterday.
and others were met at the depot and
induced to go back to Boston. The de-
pots are we'll picketed, and the reports
of the pickets show that the city Is
being kept free from new men who are
after work. No one got by at the local
derots. but IL is suspected that the men
get off at ctation about five miles out
and ride into the. city The streets
leading into the city are also being
watched, and the pickets at the factories
make the final appeal TO the men.
In the battle against the machines
the agent Walter Shaw. expresses sat
isfaction at The outlook He claims
that the men cannot win. lie has 1000
machines ia this district, and states
that he can keep them running IL neces-
sarY Men are being brought here all
the time who either know how TO run
them. or wish 10 learn. 1T is our duty
to keep the machines running" he con
tinued, "and we will do So
At Stacey. Adams e. Co.'S the men who
worked on the machines do not like
the idea OF fghting the machines by
hand lasting. at machine prices. plus the
royalty. II is about cents less than the
machine price on the cheapest goods
and the amount they could earn would
not be a living wage AS yet they have
not returned. II IN expected that the
men will stop work in other shops after
the first pay day. as the scale they now
have TO work for is alleged to be very
low. The idea that hand lasters are
working beside them for double the
wages also bothers them. The union
officials are endeevorirg to adjust the
matter.
John Nilsson WIS sentenced to one
month in the house Of correction for
disturbance Of tho peace in connection
Nth a demonstration at tho +. b. Keith