The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-09

Girls Willing to Resume Work.
Strikers Had . Parade.
The silk strike situation is now be-
ginning to resolve itself into a question
| of endurance, and the side which can
remain idle and wait longest is going
TO win. The various mill owners. when
| asked as to what their course will be
merely smile and say that they think
they can hold out as long as the girls
will be able to. Every mill in this
region has now been closed and the
total number OF strikers is about thir-
| ty-eight hundred.
Yesterday noon Valentine Bliss
closed his Dunmore mill, the plant for
merry operated by the Cambria SILK
Manufacturing company. and the girls
at Petersburg also went out about II
o'clock. This mill. operated by Reil-
ling, David g. Schoen. employees about
three hundred hands. and there has
never been any previous clashes be-
tween the employers and girls. Since
the beginning of the strike trouble
last week, the Petersburg authorities
have been waited upon by no commit
|
as usual around the mill.
After the girls took their lunch yes
terday noon they left the mill N
groups. without any notice being
served on the heads of any of the de-
partments. Superintendent Bachofen
accostcd one girl who was leaving the
premises and said: "I'd really like to
have YOU tell me what you are leav-
| ing for"
THE MAIDS REPLY.
| Mr.. Rachofen declares that the maid
looked most perpleXed for an instant.
and then answered: "Oh, all the girls
are calling us 'scabs' and we can't
stand for that any longer. you know"
No wage scale was presented nor
any demands made, Of any nature.
Yesterday was pay day al the Sauquolt
mill, and as each Of the fourteen hum
dred employees was handed her envel-
ope containing the months pay, ball
lot was also given her. bearing tn"
legend: For Work" In each of the
departments a vote was polled and
about eighty per cent. Of the tickets
read mo" A meeting of the Sau-
uuot soft silk workers was held in
Carpenters hall at the close of tho
nav.
The seven girls constituting the
wage scale committee Of the Harvey
Bros mill, yesterday afternoon visited
the offices and conferred with the
owners. Superintendent Joseph Har-
vey gave a Tribune man the following
account of what occurred at the meet
ing: I'VE again made the offer of last
week. which was the same as the in
crease granted the Sauquoit girls by
the latter mills management. That
our offer is q fair one may be readily
deduced from the fact that when il
was made last week to the girls com
mittee. prior to the Sauquoit strik>
they accepted IL and promised that all
hands would report for duty the fol-
lowing doy. The same afternoon the
South Side hands went out and then
came the general sympathy move
ment. which resulted in our girls re-
naming out.
WOULDN'T CONSIDER IT.
"rhe committee which waited upor
us today would not consider that OF
Ter or any compromise whatsoever
! They insist on their wage scale, ant
they might Just as well ask us 4
, fly as to grant any such demands. I
Is simply impossible to put into effec
a wage rate such as they ask. Th'
matter will now resolve itself into {
deadlock for awhile, ard ! gave th'
girls warning that the longer they stay
out the more harm they are doin,
themselves. The idlcness of the loca
mills is resulting in turning trad
away from the city, and work which
: ordinarily goes to the Scranton plant
: will henceforth be taken care of b.
| outside mills.
ut may be, il this situation contin
ues much longer that when they wan
. to come back there will he nothing 70
them to do. and to say the least. mucl
, smaller forces will be rcquired.'
The strikers demands have also me
n setback at the hands of the klot
Throwing company. They We're in
:, formed by the latter shortly after tn
scale was presented, that any action O
the Sauquoit people would be followe
by a like move on their part.
The scale was emphatically refuse
by Superintendent Davis, of the Sau
Il quot. and in his action the mill girl
C read also defeat at the NlotZ mill. NJ
= Davis held open the Scent increas
" primarily offered the hands by th
II company until yesterday, but now dc
e clares it withdrawn. lie said to
Tribune man:
a WHAT THE VOTE SHOWS.
THE result OF the vote We a
y lowed them TO take this afternoo
I. effectually showed the majority to /
s. against resuming work. and therefor
q. the mill will he closed down toda.
~ and remain closed until the hands al
ne ready to come back,
ne However all deals are now declare
nt off. and any agreements to be mad
te will have TO be arranged when II
II. girls are back at their places again
ne Valentine Bliss, whose North Scral
~, ION plant was one of the first to
a closed. and whose hands at Dicl
. son went out in the early part OF TN
-, week, has steadfastly refused TO recol
,,s nize the Textile Workers union. ar
is to have any dealings with the stril
rr' ers. He closed his Dunmore mill ye
~ tcrday, and the strikers realize tni
~ their demands will not be granted
al | him.
We The Harvey girls will meet this a
de ternoon mt the Central Park hall nj
he hear their committees report reglr
ing yesterdays conference with Il
III Harveys. meeting will ne held
,u Carpenters hall of the joint commi
.he tee from all the mills. The Peter
~ burg girls were yesterday afterno'
,r. organized by Miss Matthews and MI
Jordan, of the Sauquoit union.
W. There are now fourteen hundr