The times., 1901-05-24
MAGHINISTs MAKE GAINS.
Employers I'm the District and Else
where Yielding to Deniandr


The strike fnaugurated on wednesday
by the machinists OF the Cahin Electric
typewriter Company. for a nine hour
work day and an Increase OF wage. was
of short duration. The men viii return
to work this morning. the shorter hours
and an Increase OF pay having been con-
ceded to them meeting OF the direc-
tors or the company was held on We'd
nesday afternoon and it was decided to
grant the workmen a moderate Increase
in wages. The terms OF the agreement
which the Sonpauy makes with the men
are, dfty-iive and half hours pay for
fifty-four hours work. and 50 per cent
to be added TO the regular hour scale OF
wages for those required to work over
time. at night. and on holidays.
~ committee of three representfns tha
employees met the manager OF the com
pany by appointment yesterday and
talked over the terms OF the agreement
| The committee seemed to look fav0rablv
on the propositions OF the COMPANY and
immediately after the conference met
with the other striking employees ON
the advice of Fred Fletcher. President
of the local union, the meE accepted tha
terms The men concede the question Of
union le,,. recognition and apprenticeship
regulation, accepting Mr. CahiIFS arKlI-
meut that he does not employ apprentices
but is training mechanical engineers.
Late yesterday afternoon the J. G. Hur-
r.
d Murray Machine Company: south
| ern Printers Supply Company, and the
Nicholas Model Machine Company agreed
to comply with the demands OF the ma
! chinists. President O'ConneIl stated that
| the compliance Of these firms clears uo
| the fight in the District
Mr. OConneil, when seen last night
| SAID that the outlook was brighter for
/ success than at any time since the gener-
al strike was inaugurated on Monday last
II IS estimated that there are now about
| 5000 men out on strike in different parts
| Of the country. He said that he believed
J the strike would be over by Monday, and
| that the machinists almost all over the
| country. who had gone out this week.
would return to work at nine hours day.
4 He based great hope on the results Of the
conference last night at the Astor House.
| New York, between the employers and
machinists of that vicinity.
About so men on the SeabOard Air Line
are expected to strike today. Represen-
| tatives Of the Southern Railroad machin-
| lists are in Washington for conference
with the mana cement Of the road today
/ The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
concluded an agreement with Its men yes
terday.
In the New England States there was
gain OF over 1,560 men returning to work
yesterday over those who went out, and
in the pittsburg district over Loo went
back to work.
Advices were received here last night
that about 500 men in the vicinity of Gin
cinnati returned to work yesterday. and
that in San Francisco all firms except the
three largest are willing to concede
nine hour wOrk-day to their mea, but
were not willing to sign an agreement
President O'COnnell has advised the men
to go back to work without a signed
agreement and TO keep up their Organiza-
tion. The agreement would eventually be
worth nothing without organization
among the men to enforce II, should IL
be broken. His advice to the strikers Is
to agree. il possible, and gain their main
point. shorter hours.
Every report received has shown that
the men were conducting themselves in an
orderly and business-like manner al over
the country 40 day has been set for re-
voking the strike order issued for May 20
A telegram was received by Mr. OCon-
nell from President Mulholand. of the
Allied Metal Trades Association, from the
headquarters, in Toledo, Ohio, stating
that he had issued orders to his men at
the employers are still holding out
against the demands of the workmen.
This action on the part Of the metal
trades, Mr. 0'COnneI said, will greatly
encourage the machinists
BALTIMORE, May 23--The storm CEN
tire of the machinists' strike in Baltimore
appears to be the Maryland Steel Works
at SparrOwS Point, owing to Government
regulations. The efforts of the company
to keep strike officials off the grounds has
been without avail. The machinists en-
pIOyed in the tool repairs shop at Spar
rows Point went out this morning as did
twelve apprentices, engaged in shop No.
2 Men from Sparrows Point state the
marine department is practically tied up
and that no work is being done on the
vessels Under construction there
The engines and boilers on the Boston
TowbOat Compauy's steamer Lyra, which
WIS expected to sail on Saturday for Bos-
ton, are disconnected, through the pipe
filters going out, and the vessel will not
sail as expected. The fittings are not in
strikers say that there is not an engi-
neer of any standing in the city who
would care to take the vessel out All
work on the new Government torpedo
boat destroyers which were to be launch
ed this month has been stopped and from
what a striker said today the vessels will
not be launched for months, unless the
strike ends.
BOSTON. May 23.-Four hundred ma
chinists at the Goodyear Machinery Com
pany shops, on Albany Street, this city,
who have been allowed TO remain at work
under a suspension of the strike order,
pending negotiations, struck this fore
noon, thereby increasing the number OF
idle machinistS in the district to nearly
300 Negotiations went on for several
days, but no agreement was reached The
union insisted upon the terms for which
the strike was ordered and the manage
ment of the company refused TO yield
What effect this will have upon the situ-
alton in Winchester and Beverly, where
about 100 men are still working ten hours
a day, is a problem which may be solved
The three shops a. E consolidated under
the name of the United Shoe Machinery
Company.
KANSAS CITY. May Z3.-The State
board Of arbitration has been summoned
to this city to settle the machinists' strike.
but the law creating it will be contested
by the employers on the ground that 1t
is unconstitutional
The board issued subpoenas for several
employers to appear at 10 O'Clock this
morning. None of them appeared, though
they had counsel on hand to enter objec-
tiOns TO the law.
Only two members of the board are
here, Thomas NJ Jenkins, the St. Louis
street railway superintendent. who was
appointed to represent the employing ele-
ment being still too busy to come. The
board has sent to Governor Dockery and
Attorney General Crow for advice.