The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-19
TO CALL OUT MACHINISTS
STRIKES THREATENED N UNIT ED
 STATES AND CANADA.
International Association Unable to Agree With the Manufacturers-Arb tratiOn Propositions of the Lntt ter De- clined-IOO,OOO Mon VIII be Ar. cted
 nnd Railroad shops Will be Tied Up.

l ma Railroad shops VIII be Tied Up. Chicago, March 1S.--After the confer
 ence between representatives of the h. | ternational Association of Machinists | and. the administrative council of the | National Metal Trades association ended at 1:30 o'clock this morning President James O'Connell of the union declared that strikes would be called immediate ly in all parts of the United States and
 Canada. Such strikes would involve 100000 men and cause to be shut down
 for an indefinite period plants having
 an aggregate capital of millions of dol
 lars.
 Chicago labor troubles are respons-
 ble for the disagreement which is eX-
 pected to precipitate the general ma
 chinists' strike were it not for the fact that leaders of the machnists' unions
 refused to call off the strokes that now
 exist in Chicago Columbus, O., and
 Paterson, N. J. The manufacturers
 and leaders, it is believed, would have
 come to an amicable agreement and ar
 bitration would have been permanently
 established between the National Metal
 Trades association and the 1nternation-
 al Association of Mchinists. The mem
 bers of the executive board of the Ma chinists union, however, refused to call off the Chicago strike as they declared that if they did the Chicago unions
 would Secede from the International as- sociation. When the refusal of the ma chinists to end the strike was presented
 to the manufacturers they issued an ul
 tmatum to the labor leaders, and on their refusal to agree to it's provisions all negotiations were broken off.
 Before leaving the rooms in which the joint conference was held President OConnell of the International union declared that the union would begin inn mediately to call strikes in all parts of the country The first of these strikes will be called in Cleveland, o. After all the large cities have been tied up strikes will be called in the machine shops of all the railroads in the coun- try.
 The joint conference, which com- menced at o'clock Saturday afternoon and did not end until 1:30 o'clock Sun day morning, was held at the Grand Pa- cific hotel. Among those present were Organizer Reed of Toledo, Hugh Doran of Chicago, A. w, Holmes of Buffalo, P. J. Conlin of Sioux City and J. J. Con- nolly of Boston. The manufacturers present at the conference were George G. Seldon, Erie Iron Works, Erie, Pa; F. E. Stillman, Watson & Stillman com pany, New York; William Taylor, Chandler & Taylor company, Indianapo- lis; Walter Laidlaw, Dunne & Gordon company, Cincinnati; w. H. Hoyt, Gates Iron Works, Chicago; M. H. Bar ker, American Tool and Machine com pany, Boston; George H. Watts, Watts Campbell company, Boston; H. H. Le- land, Leland & Falkenberg; Charles AL lis, Edward P. Allis company, Milwau kee; Frederick Schweltman, Wagner Electric Manufacturing company, St. Louis; w. J. Chalmers, Frazer x Chal- mers, Chicago and England; H. F. De- vans, New York; P. w. Gates, Gates Iron Works, Chicago; Charles R. New combe, Erie Iron Works, Erie, Pa; H. N Coville, Lidgerwood Manufacturing Brooklyn: A. J. Caldwell, Pump trust, New Jersey.
 After meeting in separate conferences all the afternoon the manufacturers and Ia DOT leaders began a JOlnt meeting at 8 D. m. At this meeting the manufact- urers submitted to the machnists pro posaI for arbitration, substantially as follows: All strikes and lockouts to be called off; an arbitration committed, of the presidents of the two and two members of each association, shall arbitrate all present and future difficulties and whose decis- | ion shall be accepted as final by both parties to the agreement"
 On the second proposition the two as sociations were united. The labor lead CTS after holding meeting refused to agree to the first proposition and sub nitted demand for immediate and separate arbitration of the Chicago diff | (iculty. This the manufacturers refus- ed to ratify and the conference broke | up. both sides making what amounted | to a formal declaration of war. The | of the n1achinists took the | form of an international strike made by President OConnell and Organizer Reed.
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