Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-19
Will be Called BY Machin-
ISIS Association.
COULD NOT COMPROMISE
Manufacturers Issued an Ultimatunl
Which the Men Would Not Accept
and all Negotiations Were Then
Broken Off

Chicago, March 1S.-After the confer
ence between representatives OF the III
ternational Association of Machlnlsts
and the administrative council OF the Ma
tional Metal Trades Association ended at
1000 this morning. President James
O'Connell of the union declared that
strikes would be called Immediately in
all parts of the United States and Can
ada. Such strikes wou involve 100000
men and cause to be shut down for an in
definite time plants having an aggregate
capacity of millions of dollars.
Chicago labor trouble are responsible
for the disa greement which is expected
to precipitate the general machinists
strike.
Were it not for the fact that leaders Of
the machinists' union refused to call OFF
the strikes that now exist in Chicago,
o., and Paterson, Nj. the
manufacturers and the leaders,. it is be-
lieved, would have come to an amicable
agreement and arbitration would have
been permanently established between
the National Metal Trades Associa-
ton and the International Association
of Machinists. The members of the exc
cutive board of the machinists' union.
however, refused to call off the Chicago
strike as they declared that if they did
the Chicago local would secede from the
Internal ional association. When the re-
'fusal of the machinists to end the strike
was presented to the manufacturers they
issued an ultimatum to the labor leaders
and on their refusal to agree to it's pro-
visions all negotiations were broken Off.
Before leaving the rooms in which the
Joint conference was being held. Presi-
dent James O'Connell. of the interna-
tional union, declared that the union
would Iov;, ~, nIio DIV 70 coll cfrika
in all parts of the country. The first OF
these strikes will be called in Cleveland,
Ohio. After all the large cities have been
tied uD strikes will be called in the ma
chine shops of all the railroads in the
unit
Representatives of the following firms
We're present at the conference: Erie
Iron Works., Pa: Watson-Stillman COM
pany, Indianapolis; Dunne-Gordon COM
pany, C~incinnati: Gates Iron works, Chi
cago; American Tool and Machine COM
pany, Boston: Watts-Campbell company,
Boston: Leland and Falkener, Detroit;
Gardiner-G roSvenor company, Quincy
ILL.,; Fred Wolfe company, Chicago: Ed
ward p. Allis company Milwaukee: Wag-
ner Electric Manufacturing company, st.
Louis: Frazer and Chalmers, Chicago;
LidgerWOod Manufacturing company,
BROOKLYN; Pump Trust, New Jersey.
After meeting in separate conferences
all the afternoon the manufacturers and
the labor leaders began a joint meeting
at s p. M, at which the manufacturers
submitted to the machinists a proposal
for arbitration. They asked that all
strikes and lockouts be called off pending
the arbitration of the difficulties by a
committee consisting of the presidents of
the two organizations and two membe
from each association whose decision
shall be accepted as final.
On the second proposition the two as
sociations We're united. The labor leaders
refused to agree to the first proposition
and submitted a demand for immediate
and separate arbitration of the Chicago
difficulties. This the manufacturers re-
fused to ratify and the conference broke
up, both sides making what amounted to
a formal declaration of war. The declara-
ton of the machinists took the form OF
threats of an international strike made
by President O'Connell and Organizer
Reed.
The manufacturers then presented theil
side of the question in a set of resolutions
in which they declared that that the
form of agreement this day unanimously
adopted by the administrative council OF
the National Metal Trades Association
and presented to the executive officials OF
the lnterna tional Association of Machin.
lsts.is the best and only proposition whicl
the National Trade association has t.
make and that the committee again pre-.
sents the agreement of the executive com
mlttee to the lntelnatiOna Association u1
Machinists and requests them to accept
the same by aftiXing their official sigma.
lures and notify them hat this associa.
ton is ready to sign the agreement Joint,
ly with them"
The union of the International Asso
citation of MachinistS met today and in,
dorsed the action of the officers.
In view of the failure Of all efforts 70,