The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-23

off--situation at Allis-Chalmers
Shops Breaks at Wilkes
Barre, but Ashley Stands Out.
Practically all of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western and Lacka-
wanna Iron and Steel companies
machinists returned TO work yester-
day, the respective superintendents
putting the old men back in their
places as fast as they appeared.
Thirteen of the strikers of the Alls-
Chalmers shops, on Penn avenue, re-
turned to work, and Superintendent
McLaren says the prospects are that
number of others will return today.
The Wilkes Barre shop of the Allis-
Chalmers company resumed operations
yesterday morning with its full force.
There was an expectation that some
friction would come of throwing the
returned strikers and imported men
together at the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western shops, but the expecta-
ton was all awry.
The imported men numbered about
1926, and l40 of these were professional
strike breakers, supplied from the
Drunlmond agency in New York. They
were paid thirty cents an hour and
given free lodgings and meals. Some
of them worked day ana night, with
only few hours rest, and earned as
high as s. day. AS long as the big
wages continued they were content
but the moment the strike was de-
clared off and the regular scale of
wages substituted, off they went for
fresh pastures, where the grass was
good, green and long.
OTHERS LEFT TOO.
The others, not included in the pro-
fessional class, realizing that theirs
would not be a very enjoyable lot If
they continued, or attempted to con-
tinue to work alongside the men
whose places they had been filing,
and the moment they learned the
strike was off, they were packing UP
their bundles. preparatory to taking
their departure.
The company officials had promised
them steady employment and would
have allowed them to continue at their
Jobs at the regulation rate Of wages
if they so desired 1t was not their
desire to stay. however, and the COM
pany did not insist upon their staying.
The consequence was that few, if any,
of the imported men who were work
ing during the strike were TO be found
about the shops yesterday.
The imported men were supplied
with transportation to the points
whence they came, and during the
day and evening slipped quietly out of
town.
A few of the strikers who made
themselves especially obnoxious to the
company by 'pernicious activity" dur
ing the strike, We're not allowed to
return to work. Who these were can
not as yet be positively stated The
men filed applications individually.
Those whose places We're ready were
put TO work at once. A number of
Others were told they would be sent
for when they We're wanted. Still
others received no answer at all to
| their applications 1t is not certain
that all these last mentioned are not
to be sent for. Time alone will tell
who the permanently discharged ones
are.
IMPORTED LABORERS.
A large number of Greeks and Ital-
ians, imported to do laboring work.
are still about the yards, but they
are TO be shipped away as fast as old
employee return. The imported depu-
ties, for the most part, are also being
| sent away.
The boarding and lodging arrange
ments at the paint shop are still main
| tained for the accommodation of i'm
ported men employed at the car shops,
who did not secure boarding houses
outside.
1t now develops that large number
OF the imported men were boarding in
hotels and private houses throughout
the city. One of the professional
strike breakers was stopping at a
| leading hotel in the central city and
came to work every day in a frock
coat, striped trousers. patent leather
shoes and high silk hat.
Sixty of the professionals went
| from here to help break strike in the
Missouri Pacific railroad shops. Others
| of them, it Is said, are going to Read
ing. There was a report in circulat tion
that the whole crowd of Drummond
men were TO go to the Allis-Chalmers
shops this morning, but Superintend-
ent McLaren denied this, saying he
nad nad no negotiations Whatever with
| any strike breakers agency.
| The claim is made that the Drum
mond agency offered to supply the
| Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
company with eight hundred first-class
| maChinists. The company, however,
contented itself with just enough to
keep up the Immediately necessary re-
pairs. The reason more of them were
not taken was that they command
thirty cents an hour with free board
and lodging, and the man who supplies
them must he paid a commission for
every day each one of them works.
EXCEPTION TAKEN.
The statement that the Allis-Chal-
mers men are unit in their determin-
alton to stay out till they win a vic
tory is taken exception to by Superin-
| tendent McLaren. He says that thir-
| teen old men who went on strike re-
turned TO work yesterday, and that he
learned from various sources that many
more contemplate returning today or
| tomorrow. He also says that is many
| as thirty men who reluctantly went on
| strike left their addresses with him
when they went away to seek employ
ment in other places, with the request
| that he send for them at the first signs
of "A break in the strike. Superintend-
| ent McLaren expects these men back