Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-22
THE STRIKE SITUATION.
0'ConneIl Estimates That Number Of Men
Out Today is 100000
By Monday Morning Probably 30 Per
Cent VIII be Back at work With
Demands Granted.

Washington, May 22,-President O.
Council Of the international Association
Of Machinsts, estimates that the num-
Der of machlnists engaged In the strike
today is 10000. He claims TO be salts
fed with the situation and has comb
dence IN the result,
'By next Monday" he said probably
30 per cent OF The men Who went out
viii be back AZ work with their de-
mands granted. The Other 10 per cen;
are mostly on the Pacific coast ana IN
several Ohio cities. San Francisco i
the only place where we look FOR pro-
longed strike. The situation there .
good and the strike may cover several
weeks. No important developments are
reported at Cincinnati though about
fifteen small firms have signed the
agreement. The situation also Is I'M
changed at Hamilton, Dayton ana AZ
lance Ohio, and Tacoma and Seattle,
Washington. Reports from all other
sections indicate that negotiations are
progressing and that agreements are In
sigh" .,
President Mulholland, Of the Allied
Metal Trades association, comprising
the semi-skilled men In machine shops
has notified the machnists' headquar-
ters here that he Is ready TO order ont
his men whenever the latter body deems
Il necessary. The strike leaders, now
ever. do not care to involve any more
mon I'm 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 report new firms
there signed the agreement today.
fourteen firms in HOboken have signed.
In buffalo % firms are reported as haV-
ING made agreements with the strikers.
Al sharon Pa. the Continental Iron
company has signed and the llazelton
IRON works and the GAINESVILLE IRON
works nj Hazelton, Pa, have made the
concessions. 40, .,o
conferences i'm New York tonight be
tween District No. z, National Meta
Trades association. the employers Of
ranIzation, and District NO. 10 Oh lhe
Machinlsts' association
Jersey CENTRAL MEN OUT
New York. May 22.-The strike Of the
machlnists OF the Central Railroad or
New Jersey continues ana begins TO
have the appearance of lockout Men
,,ho applled for the vacancies az the
Communipaw shops today were IN
formed that the company did not al
present care to hire any machlnlsts 70
work in Jersey City.
PARADE IN CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati. o.. May 22--Final plans
were made at monster mass nleetihs
today for a parade of striking machln-
ISIS and their sympathlzers' The par
AIDE will start at : o'clock r. n'' ana Is
expected to have five thousand men III
line out Of compliment to non-unlon
etflkers the machinlsts VIII not wear
the badge Of their organization, out an
will wear white ribbons. typifying
peaceful purposes, What purports TO
be an official statement shows that
fifty-nine plants are involved IN the
strike here ard that the total number
of strikers Is 6112.
THE manufacturers have not yet
formulated their plans nor made any
publlc statement, though they hold
daily meetings at their headquarters
s. f. STRIKERS ORDERLY
San Francisco, May 92.-The strike
situation in this city remains practi-
cally unchanged. A few additions 10
the ranks OF the strikers have been
made by the walk-out Of number OF
molders. The strikers are very orderly
and show no signs Of weakness The
manufacturers are emphatic In their
statements that they will not give In
TO the strikers.