The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-06-09
STRIKE Is SETTLED.
OLD EMPLOYEES Will ALL RETURN
TO WORK AT TANNERY AT ONCE.
BOTH SIDES GREATLY PLEASED
settlement is the Result of a Compromise
Reached Between the Men and the
Allens-The Union Will Not
be Recognized.

The big strike at the Aliens Sons
tannery, which has kept nearly 600
men from work for the past three
weeks, has finally been settled and by
next Monday morning the entire plant
will be running at it's fullest capacity.
Nearly 200 of the strikers returned to
work this morning and as many more
will don their aprons and return to the
bench tomorrow. There is no hard
feeling between the men and the man
ayers and every man will be restored to
his former position or be given one just
as good as soon as the new buildings
can be made ready for operation. The
managers were ready to take the men
back this morning, but as Friday is the
last day in the tannery week number
of the men preferred to wait until the
opening of the new week.
The arrangements for calling the
strike off were made late Thursday
afternoon and the men greeted the end
of the strike with enthusiastic cheers.
In the words OF President Gompers,
both managers and men will be bene
flied by this timely settlement. The
men will return to work with the privi-
lege of earning their living at all in
creased wage and the Aliens Sons will
be able to place their goods on the
market and save much of the stock
which was supposed to be spelling.
The Aliens Sons do not agree to
recognize the Union, but they agree
that no discrimination whatever shall
be made against Union men and in re
turn it is said that they will be per
mitted to use the Union label on their
goods. The men have gained an
an increase of wages. The revised
scale of wages as posted by Messrs.
Allen as now paid is:
Beam hands as before; Helpers,
So 80 per week; yardmen, $3.50 per
week; Scourers, $50 sides to constitute
a days work, $11; Harness settlers, 5
cents a side, 40 sides to constitute
days work; Harness blackers, $3.50, 70
sides to constitute days work; Black
settlers, $3.50, so sides to constitute a
days work; Black jackers, SO per
week; hackers from the wheel, $3.50
per week; Slicker9, $3.50 per weeY, 70
sides to constitute days work; Wash
ers, $3.50 per week, rs sides to consti-
tute days work: Helpers, $3.50 per
week; Settlers on skirting, $3.50 per
week.
The only reasons the managers of
the tannery refused to recognize the
Union was the fact, that as they claim,
the Union violated it's first law in re-
fusing to allow them men enough to
save the stock in the watts when the
strike began. In this opinion he is
said to have been upheld by many
leading labor leaders.
In looking back over the strike it
can be said that it has been a most
orderly one at nearly every stage. No
one has been seriously injured and
managers and men alike have fought
the question purely from a standpoint
of principle. Both strikers and mana
gers have lost by the big plant laying
idle, but with all troubles settled the
men now will return to work and
everything will move as before The
new buildings will be opened and
every one of the old employees will be-
given a chance to do an honest days
work for a wage commensurate with
the value of his labor.