The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-25
MORE STRIKERS
ARE TO RETURN
ALL MACHINIsTs HAVE NOW
GIVEN UP THE FIGHT.
Allis Chalmers Men and the Others
Who Were Holding Out Decide
That 1t Would Be Useless to Con-
tinue the Struggle and Vote to Re-
turn to Work Today-Employers
Refused to Take Them Back in a
Body-Car Builders Are Still
Standing Firm.

AS was expected since Monday. and
as could be gathered from yesterdays
Tribune, the striking machinists of the
Allis-Chalmers company and the Finch
Manufacturing company gave up the
fight Tuesday. Yesterday morning they
met and formally called off the strike.
Tuesday afternoons meeting decided
the question. Nothing would be given
out as to what was done, but 1t was
generally understood after the meeting
that those still remaining on strike,
numbering nearly nine hundred, had
concluded IL would be futile to further
continue the struggle, under the exist
ing conditions.
Adjournment was made until yester-
day morning, with a view of making a
final effort to secure some little conces-
sion, so that the strike would not be
total failure.
The meeting convened and commit
tees were sent to interview the differ
ent employers. Superintendent Me-
Laren, of the Allis-Chalmers company,
was asked IL he would reinstate the
old employees in a body. He said he
could not promise to do this. as he was
not able to say finland that there
would be places for all the old employees
at the outset, and again, it was not
possible for him to deal with them as
body, in view of the manner in which
they went out. which. he held was a
violation of their contract.
OPEN TO THE OLD HANDS.
The works were open to the old
men, he said, and if they returned as
individuals it was very likely all
would be given employment.
The Finch Manufacturing company
gave somewhat similar answer, add
ing, however that there might be
few of the old employees whom the
company would deem it ineXpedient to
re-employ.
The tenor of the reports made by
the committees convinced the strikers
that they would be given back their
places, and il was decided to notify
the employers they would return to
work the next morning. Today will
see practically all of the strikers back
at work
The last of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western striking machin-
lists, those who were out at Buffalo,
also returned to work yesterday. The
action of their Scranton brethren de-
cided them. They were all, or nearly
all, taken back.
The car builders are still on strike
and apparently as determined as ever
To fight it out to finish They say
the return of the machinists will have
"A good effect on the struggle, as 1t
will enable the labor unions in the
territory affected to concentrate their
q A
bert Fish, of Buffalo, telegraphed he
would be here tomorrow 1t was
claimed at the car shops that seven
strikers returned IA work yesterday.
The strikers deny thu
CANFIELD'S STATEMENT.
Master Car Builder Can6sld said yes
terday that large NUMBER of new men
from Scranton and vicinity are being
employed, and are proving themselves
excellent workmen. He further says
that the Buffalo shops now has it's full
complement of men, and if the strikers
there offered to return in a body, he
could not find place for a single one of
them.
There are very few imported men
still remaining about the Lackawanna
shops. Two carloads of Greeks, who
were supplied by some New York pad
rome, went away yesterday afternoon.
The hunks and bedding they had been
using in Hotel de Paintshop were
thrown down the cinder bank. 1t was
the intention to make bonfire of them,
but the foreign colony on South Wash
ington avenue flats wouldn't hear to
this. Women and children made an on
slausht on the pile and there wasn't as
much as a feather left for the bonfire.