Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-21
Machine Manufacturers Are
Now Organizing.
THE DEMAND OF THE MEN
Is For a Nine. Hour Day and the Inter-
national Association May Call Out
All of Its Men in a Very Short
Time.

New York, March 21.-1n a~ntlcipatlcn
If an extension to his city of the strike
of the machinists, now in progress IN
Chicago, Columbus, O., and Paterson, n.
T.. local manufacturers of machinery are
pushing Forward an organization TO cope
with it when it comes. Plans Tor such
a body were laid some time ago, but the
threats recently made by the lnterna-
tional Association of Machinists to make
the Chicago strike national and call out
100, 900 men. in addition to the 5000 now
out in Chicago, and the 1000 in Columbus
and Paterson, resulted in an increase OF
activity among manufacturers here.
AS a nucleus for this movement the
New York and New Jersey Machinists'
Manufacturers association was organ
lied on March IA, With A. B. See as pres
ident; j. S. Mundy, vice. president, and
G. X. Garvin, treasurer. From the
offices of the ASSOCIATION urgent pleas
were sent out to manufacturers in this
city, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Newark
stating the demands made in Chicago by
the strikers and the need of employers
here uniting them. 1t was stated by an
officer of the association that it would
comprise in its membership several hun
dred manufacturers, representing many
millions Of capital.
Special stress was laid on the demand
of the machinists that the present en-
ployes who are not union men be dis
charged and their places filled by union
men.
The also demand" said the officer,
'that a fixed minimum Of wages and a
nine-hour day be established. Men a
be discharged only with the concurrence
of the local walking delegates
According to Delegate George H. War
ner of the nternationa MachiniSts' as
ISOLATION, the causes that have led to
the strikes of machinists in Chicago Will.
if the Chicago men win. precipltate
strikes in the large cities.
"The ~machnists," he said, "have been
working 10 hours a day up to the pres
ent, The work is very hard and exhaust
ing. and so the International Machinists'
association determined to demand a
nine-hour day. We have absorbed nearly
all the machinists' unions in the country
and our membership is nearly double
what it was a year ago. The Amaigam,
ated Engineers association mas a gooe
MANY machinists, but they work in mar
mony with us and will not work IN shops
that we may strike.
1--WE decided to begin the nine-hou1
movement in Chicago and then To- eXteno
it to the other large cities-NeW YORK
Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, ST. LOUIS
and PhlladelpNld LII ~
for nine hours AVE already begun. we
NAV not find it necessary to wait FOR ou'
movement to succeed in Chicago before
extending it to the other cities, and TIN
nine hour demand may be made in New
York and elsewhere before many days.
"However, if any of the firms tina
have been struck in Chicago should sem
their work to be done in New York tn
men in those places will refuse to handl
such work. Among the firms who's
shops nave been struck in Chicago, tn
following have branch shops in New
York: The e. P. Allis company, en-
gines, of Milwaukee,; that has shops L
many parts of the country. the Wester
Electric company, the Goss Frlntlh
press COMPANY. the Mehle Printing Pres
COMPANY, Watson & Stillman, Wolf
Co., the L~edgerwoods Manufacturing
company and the Worthington Pun
ma