The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-26
TANGLE IN
SILK STRIKE
THE SETTLEMENT PROCEEDINGS
HAVE BEEN HALTED.
Harvey Girls Yesterday Refused to
Resume Work on the Terms offered
by superintendent Joseph Harvey
to Their Committee Saturday.
Another Conference will Be Held.
Work Resumed at Forest City Yes
terday Morning-Visit of Other
Strikers to the City.

4 hitch took place yesterday in the
settlement proceedings which are on
between the management OF Harvey
Bros mill and the striking employees.
Tho refusal of the girls to accept
Superintendcnt Joseph Harvey's pro-
posal will necessitate several more
Joint conferences and prospective offers.
The strikers met yesterday morning
i'm Economy hill and heard the report
or the committee which waited upon
Mr.. Harvey Saturday afternoon. II
was expected, from statements given
out by various of the persons connected
with the management Of the strike,
that the owners offer would prove
satisfactory. but contrary to the gem
cral hopes the members Of the local
frowned 1t down. They declare that 1t
Is the same proposal as was made
them the day after they went on strike.
and granted no further concessions.
The committee. consisting Of the
Misses Kate Finnigan. Kate Duffy and
Mary Mangan, was commissioned to
again wait upon superintendent liar-
Vey and try to secure another offer.
The committee went to Forest city
yesterday afternoon To see Mr.. Harvey.
hut failed To meet him. They will see
him this morning. however. and report
the results of their interview at a spe-
cial meeting of the local. which will be
held this afternoon.
WORN RESUMED.
Work was resumed Yesterday morn
ing at Harvey Bros Forest city mill
ht ho o., ,1g nhn
brought to an amicable close Friday.
The fun force of fifty girls were on the
scene bright and early. and the plant
was in full operation by noon. An
other very important meeting will he
held tonight at ST. Johns hall. on
Capousc avenue.
The klotz strikers. who We're the
first girls TO go out. will hold IA special
session to take action on the offer
made their committee Saturday after
noon by Superintendent Frieder. The
matter of wages is now but a second
airy issue at this mill. and the strikers
greatest demand is a request for the
discharge of Miss Emily Mallot. one OF
The forewomen. Superintendent Frieder
alleges his willingness to investigate
any reasonable charges preferred
hShIbst lllt NOulS woman, Dut SAYS
that the girls advance no sound argu-
mcnts for her dismissal.
He also claims that the scale paid at
the 'arbondalc mill are so much
higher than those paid by any other
county concern. that the same scale
paid here would thoroughly satisfy the
strikers demands. y number of them
take exception 10 this. however, saying
mat the scale offered by the superin-
lcndent would only affect the more
experienced help. and that a material
difference exists between it and the
wages demanded.
NO MEETING YET
No meeting has been yet held between
tho strikers and owner of the Simpson
mill at Minooka. There was to have
been conference Saturday afternoon.
hut tho employees committee failed to
put in an appearance. No effort has
hcen made TO arrange a meeting at
Petersburg between the strikers and
Telling, David & Schoen. represented
ny superintendent Bachofen
Thomas Morgan, representing the
local at Paterson, y. j.. was in the city
Yesterday He is touring Scranton
ing the number of hands on strike AT
each place. in order to arrange for an
approximate apportionment of the con-
trlbutions sent out from time to time
by the New Jersey silk workers.
y number Of delegates were also i'm
The city from Wilkes Barre and pitts.
Ton, representing the strikers at the
GOLDSMITH & Hess factory and the
Si mill
ference with local silk strikers and dis
"ussed the conditions existing in the
three cities. Organizer of the FEEDER
atlon OF Labor Charles Thain and the
Misses Harriet and Lizzie Morris were
the Wilkes-Barrc contingent.
Organizer Thain, Mother" Na,y.
Jones and Martin d. Flaherty We're
together part Of the afternoon ana
compared notes on the relative situa-
lions IN Lackawanna and I.liZernp.
HEARING OF STRIKERS,
alderman Howe's office was thronged
with silk strikers yesterday after
noon. when the cases against Katie
barrett, Nellie Deacla and NIatfin
Matthews were brought up.
hate barrett and Nellie Deacle are
strikers at the Bliss mill i'm Dickson
city Miss Annie Evans is forelady al
the mill and charged the two Girls
with being the ringleaders of a gang
OF hfteen or twenty girls. who threw
eggs, sticks, stones an dother missiles
besides pulling her hair. The girls
were given hearinG.S.efore Alderman
Howe Friday, but the case was con-
tinued until yesterday, when their at
torney furnished $500 bail each for
court on the charge of assault and bat
terry.
Miss Matte Matthews. of 426 Cherry
street, president of the Dunmore local
was arrested by Detective Clifford for
melting to riot, creating disturb
nnce and being disordery Saturday.
Thomas Smith George and Fred En-
erick testified that she had circulated
among crowd of two or three hum
dred boys. girls and strikers, who had
congresated before the mill, and in
stigatcd them to throw stones, hoot