The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-04
MINE WORKERS TAKE A HAND.
Will Support the Cause of the Silk
Mill Strikers.

Locals Nos. S44, s77. 969, 1911, 1906 and
SO, of the United Mine Workers of
America, have appointed delegates to
act as a committee to help the silk mill
strikers in carrying on their fight. The
unions pledged their financial support,
also, and hope in this way to soon
bring the trouble to satisfactory ter
mination. The committee makes the
following statement:
The undersigned members Of the various local
unions of the United Mine Workers of America
having been appointed TO act "a a committee
TO work in conjunction with the silk mill strik.
ers' committee toward bringing about a success
ful termination Of the labor troubles between the
silk mill owners and their employees, have thor.
oughly investigated the circumstances surround.
ing the and And, to our satisfaction at least,
that the claims OF the children have sufficient
foundation TO warrant our support, which we
hereby pledge both morally and financially.
While we deplorc most sincerely the necessity
OF any children OF such tender years as are many
OF these hands working in the mill, we admit
that no blame therefor attaches TO the mill own.
ors, but We do believe that the hands are entitled
to more consideration than they seem to have
received heretofore.
The silk mill business has so many technical
| terms that it would be hard for anyone not en-.
gagged in the business to understand the de.
mands made by the strikers so We have had the
| schedule reduced TO more simple terms and we
| find the concessions asked by the hands are as
! follows:
NIGHT SHIFT.
! First time. first class spinners, sIa cent. per
hour; first time, second class spinners, %
cents per hour; first time, bobbin carriers 8
| cents per hour.
Second time, first class spinners, sik cents per
LOO, tt,,,a rIo %
cents per hour.
Third time, first class spinnerS, Sik cents per
hour; third zine, second class spinners, "a
cents per hour.
DAY SHIFT
Winders, 10 cents per hour.
| First time. first class spinncrs, 8 cents per
| hour; first time, second class spinnors, 0 cents
| per hour
Second time, first class spinners. ccats per
hour; second time, second class spinners, cents
per hour.
| Third time, first class spnners ~ cents per
hour; third time. second class spinners, 6ts
cents per hour
Doublers, first class, 10 cents per hour; Sec.
ond class, cents per hour.
| Reelcrs, cents per hour.
| Barders. cents per hour.
| Skein girls, 5h cents per hour.
| Bobhn carriers cents per hour.
| Mr. Frcder claims that he now pays more wages
than any Of the mills competing with him. This
| may may not be so, but the employees in the
| Carbondale mill who may receive not over ten
I per cent. more than like worker in the other
mills docs fully fifty per cent. more work on
| account Of the special machinery used in the
| Klots mill. We are also told that the docking
and light weight" systems in vogue in the
! mill will in the aggregate more than make up
| for what slight increase there might be in the
wage scale over that in other mills.
| We do not believ, anybody would ask even
| child, and many OF the employees ale young men
| and women, to work for less money than is
asked for in the above schedule ana we are very
| sure that no parents in this citv would be
| willing for their children to be subjected to the
| indecent language and treatment practiccd by
| some of the oveiseers.
Thoroughly convinced of the business of thu
moral and material support of the community
The United Mine Workers unions having pledged
| their help to the silk mill union it behooV es
| every union man to see to it that none of hi,
people help to defeat this worthy cause by work
ing in the strikers places, and we furthermore
believe that every man who is loyal to unior
principles should in every possible way assist
this committee in its work of bringing about
settlement OF this strike which shall be as lust
to the workers as to the mill owners
Henry Collins, j. II. Johns, ]. B.Walsh, Thoma,
Delaney, Dudley Gordon, NJ. j. BrcnnanF. Gaona