The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-29

AT a general meeting of the employees
of the silk mills of this city, held yes.
torday afternoon in st. Thomas College
hail. the strike which has been on dur
ing the last three months was formally
declared off and the announcement
made that work will be resumed Tues
day morning.
This afternoon the younger girls will
celebrate the end of the strike by hold
. ing parade, and tonight a mass meet
ing will be conducted in College hall
at which Editor William Mailly. of the
New York worker National Commit
teeman Frederick Dilcher, of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America. and
Mother" Mary Jones will make adj
dresses.
Yesterday afternoons meeting was
largely attended by representatives OF
all the mills. but more particularly the
SauGuoit, which will he opened this
morning by Superintendent Davis
Miss Manning. president of the Sal-
quot soft silk local, presided over the
meeting, which was called to order
about 5.45 o'clock, the delay having
been caused by many of the girls going
to Economy hall. where it was origin
ally announced that the meeting was
to be held.
AN OPEN SESSION.
The session was open, and of very
short duration. The announcement was
briefly made that the strike was over,
and all hands were ordered back to
work Tuesday morning. Mother
Jones then made a short address, in
which she briefly mentioned the suc-
cessful elimination of the long strug-
gle. and then urged all Of the younger
girls to participate in today's parade.
The little ones. who are the only ones
TO he in line, will gather and form in
line at the armory, which they will
leave at 4.3O o'clock. Tonight's demon
stration will be open to the general
public and a large attendance is asked
The Klotz local will give an entertain
mept on their own hook, at ST. John s
hall. Capouse avenue.
The strike is now over everywhere
with the possible exceptions of the
Klotz and Taylor mill of NIulherin &
Judge. Mother Jones last night eX-
pressed herself as hopeful that the
Taylor girls would resume work with
the others, and declared that she would
go down today and see what could be
done. The girls at this mill have al
ways been paid exceedingly good
wages, so good. in fact that the man
agement has declared that it would be
an actual impossibility to pay higher
SYMPATHY MOVEMENT.
The movement has been, therefore,
more or less sympathy one and there
fore the renewal of work at the other
mills, it is thought. will result in a
like action at the Taylor plant.
At the Klotz mill it is different how
ever. The girls employed by this con-
Germ We're the first to go on strike and
have been leading spirits in the move
ment throughout. and several of their
number yesterday declared to a Trib-
une man that an affirmative vote on
the owners proposal is far from an
assured thing. This local votes tomor-
row night.
The Wrappers who registered such a
decided objection last Thursday against
the soft silk workers voting for a set
tlement before their grievances were
adjusted, met Bishop Hoban Saturday
morning and were assured by him that
superintendent Davis would fulfil theil
requests. An increase of one-quarter
cent per hundred ends will be granted
and a uniform daily scale Of 81 paid
for warps less than three hundred
yards.
Mother" Jones spent Saturday in
Paterson. Trouble seems brewing there
and a general strike is threatened on
account of difficulties with the ribbon
workers.