The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-09
Marlboro Labor Men
Go West
T0WSI7 THE CITIES.
Will Endeavor to Prevent
Sale of Marlboro's Product.

marlboro. Jan. S.-The people who
tnouSht that the strike would be set
tled short time after it's inaugura-
toh' are now beginning to think that
they were mistaken. Tomorrow the
commencement of the ninth week of
the struggle, finds both sides as deter
mined as ever. The manufacturers
say that they are well satisfied with
the outlook and have the help that
tney need. The labor men state that
tnere are not 800 hands working in the
SIX factories that are now run on a free
shop basis.
II has also been stated at labor head
quarters THAI tomorrow a number of
these who have been working in the
factories the last week will refuse to
stay there any longer. In fact, an air
OF coincidence is clearly discernible in
Tue ranks OF organized labor.
ms morning eight representatives of
the strikers left town for Worcester.
whence they left for the west.
Iheir object in going west is to pro-
cure financial aid for the strikers. How
long they will be away from the city,
eney 40 not know. 1t will all depend
on circumstances.
A report was current on the street
today that the O'Connell factory would
open on a free shop regime tomorrow
rms is denied by a member of the firm,
Thus another rumor is killed.
Inc following may give an idea
OIL the situation as given by one Of the
leaders of the strike and who desires
ms name withheld:
The committee who will visit the
west and south, have received creden-
tlals from President Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor. They
viii be under the Jurisdiction of the
JOINT council, and can be recalled at
short notice. They will talk to bodies
or organized labor to raise funds to SUP
port the strike, also to inform the
members of these organizations that
the goods of the Marlboro manufactur-
ers are unfair, coupled with the request
to buy shoes other than those made in
the Marlboro free shops.
Either Monday or Tuesday night the
crusade will start at Baltimore. New
York, Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, De-
troit, Cleveland, Chicago and Cinoin-
natl.
The same person spoke concern
ing a reported statement of Mr.. Stark
in whose Worcester factory the Rice G.
Hutch1ngs company has decided to
start in business. Mr.. Stark, speaking
of the notices, says the ironclad notices
Which were posted in his factory were
placed there u years ago, and they tell
the story of the fight at that time
Mr.. Stark does not tell all the
story" continued the labor man. Some
shops where this notice was posted are
today out of business, while others
who boasted they had $500, to fight
the shoemakers, have since liquidated,
one concern having failed for at least
s1,000,000 There is such a thing as his
tory repeating itself. Before long
they will find out whether labor organ
izations are dead in Worcester county
or not.
within the last month three of the
hrmS Who posted these notices have
recognized and made prices with the
unions in their several localities. In
regard to the local situation the same
man says: There was a falling off in
the operatives employed in the fac
tories Saturday compared with Friday,
and a number more have promised not
to return to work tomorrow"
MI. Curtis boasted that there were
a lot of help that wanted to go to work
in the factory when it opened. Then
he said if the people got protection
they would work. They received the
protection from the state, and only IA
persons went to work. He received
the protection, why did the people not
go to work in Mr.. Curtis factory?
Tn regard to the Worcester factory
will say that no union man will go to
work there. Mr. Curtis will have a
fight there just fhe same as here. If
he does make the shoes, he cannot sell
them. The contest has developed into
a fight with the American Federation
of Labor. The aid that came in last
week was 100 per cent more than the
week"