The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-14

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ing machine and car shop employees &.
Several of these reported at the lat
| ter's headquarters last night, said
they were brought here by false rep
resentations and asked to be sent back
to Hoboken, whence they came.
They had been hired at 80 {, day and
board. they said. being told that the
only trouble in Scranton consisted rf
a number Of Italian laborers beinS out.
| All are union :ran and IN apb ,rs of
longshoremen's aud other locals.
| The wages Offered them to come here
were exceptionally high, the average
wage being a triile over Si.5O. Otner
than this, there were few changes yes
terday. The men continue to stand
willing to meet Master Eui'Ie' Can
field. and order all hands TO continue
| to Keep away from the shops ,irtl
| the ninehour day is granted. Last
| evening IL telegram was received from
| Kingston. announcing the conditions
there. 1t read as follows:
=. J. McAndrcw. scranton Carbuil'ic,s
| Everything tied up. Committee
| NOTICES POSTED.
| Notices were posted yesterday in
|
| trance TO the car and machine shops
| to the effect that all men not reporting
| for work at : o'clock Tomorrow morn
ing will he discharged. They are
signed by Master Car Builder Canfield.
Superintendent of Motive Power Lloyd
| and Storekeerer O'Connor.
| The strikers heard early of the no
tices, but declared no attention would
| h, m
gard the notices in the nature of Il
bluff"
| The letters to the sllperintendcnts
| OF the various companies We're mailed
yesterday morning by the council Of
| affiliated employees and no further ne
gotiations will take place until answers
| have been received. The full text of
| the letter is as follows:
| scranton. Pa, May II. 1901.
Gentlemen Tor Dear Sir) The council of af-
| Gatcd machine, boiler ear. blacksmith and pat
tern shop employees of the Central Labor union,
oi scranton, Pa. at meeting held SUNDAY. May
r. 1901. decided TO instruct each lodge rcprccut-
| ed t" hold meeting not later than Friday May
| Il. to decide on how TO instruct their delegates
to this council TO act The question of the At.
titIidc ol this council and the men it rcprcscnt,
| toward hose firms to whom the petition for u
ninc'iiour day was presented. II decided to
recommend that each lodge instruct its delegates
| to vote in favor of the men whom this council
represents, continuing work for those firms who
grant our petition for the nine hour day as pre-.
ecn,cd aud that this council and the lodges com.
posing il agree that if such petition is granted
their members shall continue 10 work fu nine
hours on Saturday during the summer months,
when half holiday is usually granted. but that
the men represented by this council shall not bn
prevented by this council from ccasinw work in
those shops who do not agree to our petition
| and 80 notify them not later than : al m,
Monday, May 20, 1901.
Respectfully.
HUMPHREY b. CAMPBELL,
Chairman;
II. C. GALLAGHER.
Delegates of Electric City lodge, No. 80 In,
tclnatonal Association of Machni,ls;
W. W. LEES,
JEFF SCl'LL.
Delegates Of Nay Aug lodge No. n, Brotherhood
OF Boiler Makers and Iron Shpbuilders;
WILLIAM }. HAMMER.
Delegate of Car Builders union, No. 1;sOt;
WILLIAM l.. PHILLIPS.
D"legai" nj scranton union, No. 1lG ncrna-
tional Brotherhood oi Blacksmiths:
GEORGE ROBiING.
WILLIAM L. KIRCIIlOFF.
Delegates Of The Pattern Makers Association OF
scranton and vicinity:
j. l.. MARTIN.
7. H. FRANCIS,
Delegates OF Federal Labor union. No $50
SITUATION UNCHANGED
The local situation remains the same
The Scranton council authorities are in
communication with the unions along
the line and have received Il communi-
cation from the business agent of Dis.
trict II. in which the latter states the
men are pledged to abide by the con.
StitutiOn, This means a strike on May
~ unless the nine hour day petition Is
granted. The district takes in fifteen
lodges, including those at Hobokcn.
Jersey city, Newark, Brooklyn, New
York. ana other places.
The Lackawanna men who saw Su-
pcrintendent Lloyd at Buffalo are IN
the city, but are very retcent on tho
subject of this interview with him.
There have been no further cessutions
of la bor and will be mono before MAY
20, according to the machinists' lead
"is. Rumors were plentiful yesterday
to The effect that car loads of men were
being imported To take the strikers
laces, hut these We're found to he
false, as only n few additional special
officers We're brought in.
The strikers declare that Il number
of men brought on by the company
have refused to work when they found
strike to he i'm progress. 4 commit
tee of Kingston carbulders were in
The city yesterday and reported AT the
caGbuilders' headquarters that the men
were ou- Ia man at Kingston. This
does not coincide with The statement
made bY Master Carbuilier Garfield.
Said he Yesterday to a Tribune man:
There are forty-three men working
AT Kingston and a large number are
also still at work in Buffalo"
HICKS Is a CONSTABLE.
ON being asked what final dsposi.
tion was 10 De made Of Hicks, tha
Dover employo whose suspension pre.-
oipitated the strike, Mr. Garfield an
Swered that the SUSPENDED men had
now ceased to fsurr in the matter
Hicks" said he, has been elected
constable at Dover and | hardly think
h would wish to resume work for uS
when he has a position of that nature"
This now leaves the nine hour day
as the sole grievance advanced by the
men and Master Builder Garfield, when
asked why he declined 10 discuss This
matter Win the committee which
waited upon him last week, said:
why the shops have been working
nine hours regularly each day. it only
Icing occasionally that the hands ara
busted for ten hours. We have been
on the nine hour day for several
months and l fail to see where the
grievance exists along that line