The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-27
WANT TO SETTLE.
Conference of Mill Owners
and Workmen on the
Barnes Strike.
SMALL BOYS ARRESTED
They Threw Stones at the
"Scabs" Near the Scene
of Trouble.

The conference of the Joint Arbitration
Committee of the Mill Owners Associa-
tion and Mill Wood Workers Local Union
No. u.s. held at Assembly Hall, No. 642
Newark avenue, last night, accomplished
practically nothing in the matter of
bringing about a settlement of the strike
at the Barnes Manufacturing Company's
mill on West Side avenue.
The mill owners were represented by
Isaac vanderbeek of this city. ]. A. Ga
hagan of Hoboken and Allen NJ. Church,
representing Booth Brothers of Bayonne
George T. Mapp and Edward Stokes re-
presented the mill workers, T. o. Coder,
the other member of the committee being
absent.
The Joint Committee organized by elect
ing Mr.. Vanderbeek chairman and Mr..
Stokes secretary.
The mill workers representatives stated
that they had received information to the
effect that several members ef the Mill
Owners Association were assisting the
Barnes Company in violation of the
agreement entered into between the or
ganizations on May 1, 1900. In the case
of some of the mills they were prepared
to furnish proof of such violations. AS
circumvented by at least one mill owner,
it was stated that recently the Barnes
Company sent stuff to Dodge & Bliss.
who refused to handle it and returned it.
1t was then sent to the Woodstock Cop-
pany, but on account of the recent fire at
their mill, they were unable to do the
work and turned it over to the Dodge &
Bliss Company, who did it for them.
Todpa
& Bliss were entitled to do work for
Woodstock, who was not a party to the
pending controversy.
The mill workers also stated that they
had positive evidence that Cleary &
Bantze, of West Hoboken, and the Con-
sumers' Coal and Ice Company, both of
which concerns are connected with the
Mill Owners Association, had received
stuff from the Barnes mill since the strike
was declared.
Delegate Mapp brought out the fact
that in the Barnes Companys contracts
with the firms mentioned there was
clause, Subject to labor trouble" This,
he said, had been inserted in the con-
tracts by Horace Marsh. member of
the Barnes Company, when the agreement
between the two organizations was
signed.
The representatives of the Mill Owners
Association insisted that all goods manu-
factured at the Barnes mill prior to the
strike should be handled by the affiliated
trades.
When asked if the Barnes people were
still members of the Mill Owners Asso-
: citation, the spokesman for that organi-
cation answered that they had violated
their agreement and were no longer MEM
bers.
At a subsequent caucus of the Mill
Wood Workers it was decided that if the
Mill Owners Association did not by to-
night expel as members Gleary & Bantze,
the Woodstock Company and the Con-
sumers Coal and Ice Company, a gem
eral sympathetic strike will be ordered
and every mill in the county would be
struck on Thursday morning.
Special Agent Phil Connors of Mill
Wood Workers Union No. 49, reported to
Business Agent Thomas F. Conroy of the
Building Trades Council and Agent
George W. Odell of the District Council
of Carpenters that Boss Carpenter Jones
of Eighth and Coles streets, who is do
ing MitchelPs job at Sixth and Mon
mouth streets, had received blinds from
the Barnes mill since the strike was be-
gun. He also reported that consign-
ments of goods from the boycotted mill
had been received by the Wright Lum-
Der Company, Thirty-eighth street and
Ninth avenue, New York; r. H. Tufts,
No. 122 Elm street, New York, and at a
job at No. 791 Third avenue, New York
The agent was instructed to request the
New York Building Trades Council to re-
fuse to allow affiliated men to handle
Barnes & Company's stuff. Their failure
to comply with this request will involve
the National organizations.
The District Council of Painters at last
nights meeting at Council Hall, No. IL
Hoboken avenue, gave vote of thanks
to Max Harris, of Summit avenue, for
his refusal to handle window sashes made
at the Barnes mill. 1t was also an
nounced that the Hebrew painters organ
ization, which recently applied for affili-
alton with the District Council of their
trade, were standing firmly by the locked
out mill workers.
There was some trouble in the vicinity
Of the Barnes mill at $3.50 o'clock last
night, caused by a number of boys thorw-
ing stones at the "scabs' as they left
work Mounted officers Lynch and Dono-
hue charged on the crowd and arrested
Gus Thiele, of Hopkins avenue, and a boy
of sixteen named John Free, who lives
on Oakland avenue. They were taken to
the Oakland avenue police station. Aside
from this incident everything was as
quiet in the vicinity of the mill as it has
been since the strike' commenced.