The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-05-23

labor STRIKES EVERYWHERE
|xAcH1Hurs ACT n UNISON.
II Union Persists In esan Francisco
Proprietors Say works WIN Close
several Places Have Given the
Raise Asked.
San Francisco, May 20.-It IL re-
ported here ON good authority that
IL the machinists persist in their de-
mand for nine hour day the Union
and Risdon iron works Of this city
will close down for an indefinite per-
iod In anticipation Of = strike.
At Butte.
Butte, May 20.-Ths general order
for 4 strike Of machinists al over the
country is not likely to affect any Of
the machinists In Montana but those
employed in the railroad shops. The
machinists working In the foundries
at Anaconda are receiving As cents
! an hour, which IL up to II not above
the scale asked. The machinists in
the smelters there are getting 81 a
day for eight hours work. They were
| on strike recently and only went back
! to work on those terms . few days
ago.
In Butte the foundry machinists got
raise Of so cents . day for 10 hours
work few months ago without hav-
| ing to strike for It. The smelter ma
chinists here al get an eight hour
day for the same pay a. they used
to get for 10 hours, except in the
Colorado and Butte & Boston smelt-
ers, where the entire force il out
pending an agreement - to allowing
outside labor the eight hour day pro-
vided for miners and smeltermen. The
machinists In these two works are
said to be willing to take nine hour
day.
| AZ Syracuse.
Syracuse. N. y. May 20.-Of the
900 machinists In this city only 260
are members Of the union. Employers
do not anticipate any great Interrupt.
ton Of business here on Monday.
A Seneca Falls dispatch says that
the machinists are thoroughly organ.
lied there and It II expected that the
large manufacturing companies there
will not concede the demands Of the
union. which numbers 500 members.
In New York City.
New York, May Cot Is stated at
the machinists' headquarters that out
OF the $4,000 machinists In the shops
Of Greater New York and vicinity
fully 5000 will 60 to work under the
new scale. It IL admitted that at least
1000 men employed In shops which
have refused to accede to the demands
Of the union will be thrown out of
work until the question between the
employers and employees is settled.
| Dayton. Ohio. May 20.-Not one
concern in Dayton has acceded to the
machinists' demands. Several plants
have closed. Thirty-nve hundred men
are out Of work. The carpenters
strike Is practically complete.
In Connecticut.
New Haven. Conn. May 20.-Strikes
Of machinists IN large shops through
out Connecticut are expected as re-
suit OF the refusal Of the manufac.
turers to accede to the demands Of
the international Association of Me-
chinists for = nine hour day. In
bridgeport the 500 members Of the
union voted to come out.
The White Lock Machine company
and the Driggs-Seabury Gun & Am
munition company win close their
plants for an indefinite period and
the men look upon the situation there
as practically q lockout.
In Norwalk. Waterbury and New
Britain preparations are being made
apparently for prolonged strike by
both the labor leaders and the man
ufacturers.
Later.
Washington, May 4l.-The general
strike Of the employees in the machinery
and allied metal tradeA throughout the
country to enforce nine hour day with
an increase Of wages to meet the reduc-
ton in the hours Of labor took effect to-
day. Reports were received BY President
OConnelI Of the National Association Of
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