The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-22
BUT 10000 OUT.
Number of Strikers Reduced by
Concessions Granted.
Monster Parade Planned by Gin
cinnati Machinists.

Washington, May p. = President
O'Connell, of the International Associa-
ton of Machinists, estimates that the
number of machinists engaged in the
strike today is 10000 He claims to be
satisfied with the situation and has con-
fidence in the result
BY next Monday morning." he said,
probably 80 per cent of the men who
went out will be back at work with
their demands granted. The other 10
per cent are mostly on the Pacific
coast and in several Ohio cities San
Francisco is the only place where we
look for protracted strike. The situa-
tion there is good, and the strike may
cover several weeks. No important de-
velOpments are reported at Cincinnati,
though about fifteen small firms have
signed the agreements. The situation
also is unchanged at Hamilton, Dayton
and Alliance. Ohio. and at Tacoma and
Seattle, Wash.
Reports from all other sections indi-
cate that negotiations are progressing
and that agreen ents are in sight"
President Mulholland, of the Allied
Metal Trades association, comprising
the semi-skilled men in machine shops,
has notified the machinists' headquart-
ers here that he is ready to order out
his men whenever the latter body
deems it necessary. The strike leaders,
however. do not care to involve any
more men in the movement than is
necessary. and the indications are that
there viii be no general augmentation
of the force of the strikers by the allied
men.
Kansas City advices indicate that
none of the firms there signed today.
leaving approximately 800 men still
out All of the fourteen firms in HO-
boken, N. J., have signed. In Buffalo
twenty-five firms are reported as hay-
ing made agreen ents with the strikers
At Sharon, Pa, the Continental Iron
Iron works and the Janesville Iron
works at Hazelton, Pa, have made the
concessions.
Mr. O'ConneH will attend the confer
enee at New York tonight between dis
trict No 2, National Meal Trades asso-
citation, the employers organization.
and district No. Is of the machinists'
associa ton.
San Francisco. May 22.-The strike
in this city remains practical
ly unchanged. A few additions to the
ranks Of the strikers have been made
by the walkOut of a number of mold
ers. The strikers are very orderly and
show no signs of weakness The man
ayers are emphatic in their statement
that they will not give in to the strik-
ers.
Cincinnati, May 22.-Final plans were
made at a monster mass meeting today
for a parade of striking machinists and
their sympatnizing fellow strikers. The
parade will start at 2 p. m, and is ex-
pecteu 10 nave o,UOU men IN line Out OF
compliment to nOn-union strikers. the
machinists will not wear the badge of
their organization, but all will wear
white ribbons, typifying peaceful pur-
poses What purports to be an official
statement shows that SO plants are in
vOlved in the strike here and that the
total number of strikers is 6,772 The
have not yet formulated
their plans nor made any public state
ment though they hold daily meetings
at their Headquarters.
New York, May 22.-The strike of the
of the Central railway of
New Jersey continues and begins to
have the appearance of lock out. Men
who applied for the vacancies at the
shows today were inform
ed that the company did not at present
care to hire any machinists to work in
Jersey City