The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-16
LETTER FROM MIR. DAVIS.

| r. J. Mulhcrim Esq.
My Dear Sir: Your wire came duly to hand.
| My reason for not wishing TO confer with cln-
ployes' committee, was from the fact that the
! majority OF our hands ore between - and Ii
| years Of age, and any agreement that we might
arrive at, would not bind our hands in any way,
and would simply bind us.
| Our position is as follows We will grant
| from TO Il per cent. increase TO take effect as
| soon as our employees return to work. We
| will also agree not to discriminate against any
| Of our employees for the part they have taken
| in the strike. Oi course, should we start up
at any time within the next four weeks it will
| he readily understood that owing TO the stop.
page of our works. and our customers silk going
| TO other places, it will be almost impossible az
| the beginning, TO employ all OF the hands that
went on strike, owing to a certain loss Of
| business
| However eventually al will he re.cmpoyed,
| or as soon as business warrants it.
Our only reason for not wishing 10 confer
with the committee is owing to the large num-
| Der Of Young help. We may, in this case, have
| a committee every day in orr office for one rca.
| SON or another after work is resumed, and this
| will cause moro or less friction between our.
selves and employees, which We wish to avoid
| You can use this letter as you may lit
Very respectfully yours,
| ". H. Davis
| An important concession has been
! practically granted by the strikers
! who have about agreed to waive the
| demand for an adjustment of the fine
| system. which formed part Of the orig
| inal grievances submitted to the own
| ers. At a recent meeting of the Har-
| vcy workers it was decided to cut out
| this clause from the terms to he sub
| mitted, and at yesterdays meeting a
| committee was appointed TO look into
| the matter and fines and report wheth-
| er or not the demand should be made
for doing away with 1t.
MEETING THIS MORNING.
| A meeting will be held in Carpenters
hall this morning of the grievance conf
mittees from all the Sauquot depart
ments, and u complete list of griev-
| anceS will be then drawn up and sub
mitted to the executive committee.
one OF the leading officials of the
| Sauquoit workers yesterday stated to
a Tribune man that in her opinion the
| tning system was a just and neces-
| sary precaution ON the part of the mill
| authorities to prevent INSTRUMENTATION
| and shtrking of work.
! Thursday evening u slight outbreak
occurred at the Petersburg mill OF
| Relling, David * Schoen. Miss Mary
| Alahon. who has been working as Il
| book keeper in the office since the be-
| ginning of the strike, left the mill
| about 9 o'clock and started for her
home in Dunmore. She had only gone
| q short distance when she was sur
| rounded by numerous breaker boys
and strikers. who shouted at her in
| dcrision. They blocked the road and
placed so many obstacles in the way
that her homcWard trip took fully an
! hour and half.
BY the time she reached her resi-
| dence several hundred small boys ana
girls We're at her heels, and even after
she entered The house, remained about
premises, shouting bloodthirSty threats
and uttering dire menaces.
AS TO ARBITRATION.
superintendent Bachofen, of the
Petersburg mill, operated by Reiling,
| David a. Schocn. was yesterday asked
by Il Tribune man his views on the
arbitration question, and replied; 'If
the strikers insist on receiving Patcr-
son wages, as was announced by them
i'm the resolutions passed by their eX-
ccutive committee, arbitration is SIM
ply out of the question, as it would be
impossible for us to pay them any
thing like the wages which The New