The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-22
STORM CENTERS OF
THE GREAT STRIKE
Near Cincinnati and on the
Pacific Coast.
MANY FIRMS YIELDING
One Hundrad Sipned ApreemAnts With
One Hundred Signed Agreements With
the Men Yesterday.
FAVORABLE REPORTS FROM THE SOUTH
All the Employers in Norfolk Concede the Mems
Demands A Complete Tie up at San
Francisco. Chicago Settling
the Dispute,
the Dispute.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, May 21-The storm CEN
ters of the general strike of machinists
throughout the country today are in the
vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, and on the
Pacific coast. The number of firms tAat
have signed agreements was augmented
today by about a hundred, which brings
the aggregate of the establishments max
ing the concessions to one thousand in
round numbers during the past three or
four days.
Save in one or two instances, as at
Scranton, Pa, the allied trades have not
yet been affected. 1t is claimed at the
general Headquarters of the machinists.
however, that where agreements are not
affected by this afternoon or tomorrow,
many of the men in the allied trades will
go out in the individual shops where the
machinists already are out. The esti-
mate of President O'Connell, of the Ma
tional Association of Machinists as to
the number of strikers today remains at
$4,000 approximately, the same figure as
given yesterday. The executive board
of the association is in session here wait
ing the progress of the strike.
The situation, according to reports re-
ceived today at headquarters is sum-
married. as follows:
Practically all the trouble between
Kansas City and the Pacific coast has been
adjusted. At Kansas City about 600 men
are out but few small firms have signed
the agreements. San Francisco reports
an almost complete tie-up. About 5000
men have struck. Agreements have been
reached there, however, with eleven firms
outside of the Union and Dresden Iron
plants and the Fulton Ship Company. At
Seattle 700 men have struck. There are
500 strikers at Takoma, Washn The trou-
BILE has been adjusted at most of the
other Pacific coast points. At New York
about 1900 men have struck. A sette-l
ment has been reached with the balance
which involve about fifty per cent of the
firms. In Chicago all but several of the
small shops nave adjusted matters About
1000 men are out in Boston. Many men
are out in the Ohio cities of Cincinnati.
Hamilton, Dayton and Alliance In Cincin-
natl dozen firms have made the con-
cessions since Saturday and about 5000
men are out
Favorable reports come from the South
All the establishments employing machin-
lists in Norfolk, Va, have signed agree
ments. OF the establishments in Will
mington, Del, four of the largest ones
have signed agreements leaving about
half of the original strikers out. There
is a complete tie-up reported at New
burg, N. Y, all of the 800 machinists be-
ing out while all of the men at the Brooks
Locomotive Works at Dunkirk, N. Y,
have struck. The Nauguatuck Valley, in
Connecticut is generally affected. In New
Haven eleven firms signed yesterday but
600 men still are out. About 500 are out
at Springfield, Mass. In Philadelphia
about half of the firms have reached
agreements, leaving $500 men approx
mately, still out.