The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-19
RETURN TO WORK.
Eleven Moulders
Break Away From
Comrades.
UNDUE INFLUENCE.
Strikers Claim the District
Attorney Had a Hand
in Their Action.

Eleven moulders returned to work at
the fundries of Rice, Barton &
Fales yesterday. These men, the strik-
ers claim, were unduly influenced by
District Attorney lockwood Hoar and
members of the union say that an IN
junction will be asked by the union re-
straining the district attorney from in
duencing the men to return to work.
The men who returned to work are
John Conway, George Whalley, w. Eu-
gene Thurston, James Hanlon, William
Dolan, Michael Dolan, Daniel Sulli-
van, William Kennedy, James Harri-
son and Thomas Woods. Fred Bowers
son of Lyman Bowers, the foreman Of
the foundry, also returned to work, 1t
is also said that the firm of Rice, Bar
ton & Fales will buy moulding ma
chimes. These machines with the men
who have returned to work will turn
out all the work that the firm desires
without the aid of the strikers.
What is making the union men hot
under the collar is the action of one
John Conway. whom the union men
claim was literally forced to return to
work by pressure being brought by the
district attorney and others. They say
that the district attorney unduly inhu-
enced John Conway Eugene Thurston
and George Whalley.
Conway was seen by Spy reporter
last evening, and he said that the dis
trict attorney did not influence him
particle. He, ir company with Eugene
Thurston and Thomas Whalley, had
had some conversation with the district
attorney and the latter advised him to
20 TO work and not remain out With
the strikers.
He said that he went back as a scab
because he saw the way the strike
would terminate and he wished to Sc
cure his position.
The moulders at labor headquarters
Yesterday were not a whit discouraged
bv the turn events took yesterday and
they look for the best. They are salts
fed that if the national officers left the
Worcester end of the New England
strike to look after itself the day would
be won. If James e. Roach, vice pres
lident Of the national union, had kept
away from Worcester and had not
made the men returlPto the Holyoke
shops. they say that today the strike
would be over.
The local union men contend that
James E. Roach was aware of the pro-
lposed action of the moulders in this
city. and if such a condition existed as
does exist at the Holyoke shops he
should notify the local union and not
wait until the men had struck and
then order them back, discouraging
the others and virtually breaking the
back Of the strike.
The moulders are satisfied to have
the men return to the Rice, Barton &
will 60 If the foundries can be con-
Quoted by the scabs they can do so,
but they claim that it is an impossible
ity to do so.
The men at labor headquarters anx-
iously awaited the news of the ulti-
mate outcome of the Providence con-
ference. But they waited in vain for
the Providence conference bore as
much fruit as the Worcester confer
ence. The conference was harmonious
and the matter thoroughly discussed
but that ended it. They adjourned af-
ter talking the matter over and will
probably meet some time within two
weeks. In the meantime the men will
remain at work in the Holyoke shops.
P. ]. r. Frey, who was in Providence
attending the conference, did not re-
turn last evening, neither did MeSSrs.
Roach or Valentine. When the next
conference is to be held is now trou-
bling the local moulders.
The Spy was able to learn last even
ing by telephoning a Providence news
paper, and through its Associated
PrcEs dispatches that the two DAYS
session Of the arbitration committee of
the Iron Moulders' Union of North
America and the National Founders
Association closed and adjourned for
two weeks with the vexed question still
unsettled. This announcement was
made by the officials. The conference
considered both the Providence and the
Worcester cases.