Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-05-24
LABOR STRIKES EVERYWHERE
MACH1NISTS ACT IN UNISON.
If Union Persists In san Francisco
PrOprIetOrs Say Works Will Close
Several Place. Have Given the
Raise Asked.

Raise Asked.
San Francisco, May 20.--It is re-
ported here on good authority that
ii the macninists persist in their de-
mand for nine hour day the Union
and Risdon lion works OF this city
will close down for an indefinite per-
iod in anticipation of a strike.
At Butte.
Butte, May 20.-The general order
for strike OF inachinists all over the
country is not likely to affect any Of
the machinists in Montana but those
employed in the railroad shops. The
machinists working in the foundries
at Anaconda are receiving As cents
an hour, which is up to if not above
the scale asked. The machinists in
the smelters there are getting 81 a
day for eight hours work. They were
on strike recently and only went back
to work on those terms few days
ago.
In Butte the foundry machinists got
raise of so cents day for 10 hours
work few months ago without hav
ing to strike for it, The smelter ma
chinists here all get an eight hour
day for the same pay as they used
to get for 10 hours, except in the
Colorado and Butte & Boston smelt-
ers, where the entire force is out
pending an agreement as to allowing
outside labor the eight hour day pro-
vided for miners and smeltermen. The
machinists in these two works are
said to be willing to take nine hour
day.
At Syracuse.
Syracuse N. Y, May 20.-Of the
900 machinists in this city only 260
are members Of the union. Employers
do not anticipate any great Interrupt
tion of business here on Monday.
A Seneca Falls dispatch says that
the machinists are thoroughly organ
lied there and it is expected that the
large manufacturing companies there
will not concede the demands of the
union, which numbers 500 members.
Ne" &btys
New York, May 20-It is stated at
the machinists' headquarters that out
of the Il 600 machinists in the shops
of Greater New York and vicinity
fully 5000 will go to work under the
new scale 1t is admitted that at least
1000 men employed in shops which
have refused to accede to the demands
Of the union will be thrown out OF
work until the question between the
employers and employees is settled.
Dayton, Ohio. May 20.-Not one
concern in Dayton has acceded to the
machinists' demands. Several plants
have closed. Thirty-five hundred men
are out of work. The carpenters
strike is practically complete.
In Connecticut.
New Haven, Conn, May 20.-Strikes
Of machinists in large shops through
out Connecticut are expected as re-
sui, of the refusal of the manufae
turers to accede to the demands OF
the International Association of Ma
chinists for a nine hour day. In
bridgeport the SUo members Oh tHe
union voted to come out.
The White Lock Machine company
and the Driggs-Seabury Gun & Am
munition company will close their
plants for an indefinite period and
the men look upon the situation there
as practically a lockout.
In Norwalk, Waterbury and New
Britain preparations are being made
apparently for prolonged strike by
both the labor leaders and the man
ufacturers.
Washington, May 2l.-The general
STRIKE of the employees in the machinery
and allied iaetal trades throughout the
country to enforce nice hour day with
an increase of wages to III ,et the reduc-
tion in the hours of labor took effect to-
day Reports were received by President
O'Connell of the National Associate u Of
Machinists and other officials who are in
this city early in the forenoon indicating
that a large number OF establishments
heretofore holding out against the de-
mands Of the men were making the neces-
sary concessions.
Ducheaa os C1exsland Dead.