The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-23
SOME GAINS FOR MACHINISTS
FIRMSIN FERROUS CITIES CRANE
 ED DEMANDS YESTERDAY.
day Half-Holiday-Wiil Move to New York Unless Men Accept-Strikes Pending in Yards Where Warships Are Building-The Local Situation.

| Boston, May 22.-Four more shops il
 Boston, employing 166 men, have con
 ceded the demands of the machinists
 and the union is confident that othe
 concerns will fall into line.
 | North Tonawanda, N. Y, May 22.- The machinists who struck at the Buff | falo Steam Pump Works returned t6 work this afternoon, a satisfactory | agreement having been. reached.
 Alliance, Ohio May 22.-The strike ot the machinists employed at the big plant of the Morgan Engineering com pany has ended, the company having practically granted all the demands o1
 the men,
 Chillicothe, Ohio, May 22.-Mechanics
 employed at the Baltimore and Ohio
 railroad shops have been granted a hor.
 izontal increase of wages, and the
 threatened strike is off.
 Detroit, May 22.-At meeting of the
 Metal Trades association, embracing
 nearly all of the large concerns in this
 city, to-day, 1t was decided to stand
 firm in opposition to the demands of
 the striking machinists.
 Waterbury, May 22.-Manvllle Broth CTS company, of this city, to-day posted notice in their shops that hereafter the men employed by the firm will be allowed a half holiday on Saturday, or, in other words, fifty-tive hours a week with pay for sixty. The notice adds, however, that the company will refuse to recognize the union, and that if the company is unsuccessful! in their con- test with the strikers the factory will be removed to New York.
 Washington, May 22.-Up to tonight the navy department had received noti- fication from three contractors now warships of the pendency of a strike, viz: Moran Brothers, of Se- attle; the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, and the Maryland Steel com pany, of Sparrows Point, near Balt- more. The department will take no ac- tion until the strike is over, when a de- cision will be made as to how many days shall be allowed the contractors on account of the delay caused by the strike. In this connection it appears that the Union Iron Works, at San Francisco, has under construction two armored cruisers, the California and he South Dakota. These are built un- Ter the acts of 1899 and 1900, each of which contains provision that this contract shall not nor shall any inter- ,st herein, be transferred by the party If the first party to any other person IT persons"
 Washington, May 22. - President O'Connell of the International Asso- ,iation of Machinists, estimates that he number of machinists engaged in he strike to-day is 4O,ooO. He claims o be Satisfied with the situation and ,as confidence in the result. By next | morning. he said, probably | Q per cent. of the men who went out will be back at work with their de- hands granted The other 10 per cent. Ire mostly on the Pacific coast, and in | everal Ohio cities. San Francisco is | he only place where I look for a pro- racted strike. The situation there is No important develop 7ents are reverted at Cincinnati | hough about fifteen small firms have igned the agreements. The situation ; also unchanged at Hamilton, Day. m and Alliance, O., and Tacoma and Reports from all other sec ions indicate that negotia tions are and that agreements are I sight"
 Kansas City advices indicate that inc firms there signed to-day, leaving 300 men still out. All of le fourteen firms in Hoboken, N. J., ave signed. In Buffalo twenty-two rms are reported as having made with the strikers. At Shar- D, Pa, the Continental Iron Co. has