The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-21
VI y. Mae laren,
Tor Allis.C Chalmets Co
SYMPATHETIC LABORTRs.

VI y. Mae laren,
For Ailis.C Chalmers Go.
SYMPATHETIC LABORTRs.
| Promptly at : o'clock every machin-
| list and helper in the shops left the
premises and fifty laborers from the
| foundry Joined their ranks. About
| one hundred and fifty moulders were
| the only employees to remain at work.
! Superintendent MacLaren. when seen
| by a Tribune man, declared that pres
ent circumstances prevented his maxi
ing any statement as to whether the
! company would endeavor to run the
shops short handed or try to recruit
men.
At the Bolt and Nut works hut
Twenty-Five narhinistS and black
smiths were employed, being utilized
in repair work They struck at :
o'clock. but tn" remainder of the 3..5
men whose duties put them into an
entirely separate class of labor re-"
manned at their places. At the Finch
works. one hundred machinists. black
smiths. pattern makers and lahOrers
from tile foundry, quit work. aud at
| the McClave 4 '!roois works about
forty men ara still doing foundry
work.
At none of these places were any
| notices posted. but ii was pretty gem
orally understood. both by the Finch
and McClave 4 Brooks employees that
their concerns would follow the lead
| of the Allis- Chalmers company. Two
| men refused to go out at the Finch
works. a inachinist and IL black
smith.
No meetings of the strikers were
held yesterday. but this afternoon a
general meeting of the machinists will
be held at . o'clock at Music hall
After this. a general plan OF cam
paign will be mapped out.
The six unions involved in the strike
will probably delegate fun power to
conduct the strike to their delegates
| in the council of affiliated employees,
| and these will assume complete charge
of th" entire situation. the levying as
sessm"nts. watching for imports. etc
Chairman Campbell. of the council
yesterday declared that the strikers
Will collntenance no riOting and the
strike will be conducted in "a manner
as free from violent acts as the Ut
most care can make il.
a convention of car builders will be
called to order in Buffalo at 10 o'clock
Wednesday morning. at which over $50
delegates are expected to be present
from all over the country. The inter-
eStS OF the local car builders will be
looked after at the convention prob
ably by one of the LackaWanna Strik-
| ers at Buffalo, The convention is en-
pected to last about seven days. as a
national orGaniza tion will be formed
| and many matters of vital importance
! discussed
SITUATION AT OTHER POINTS
| Throughout all yesterday local super
| intendents and owners kept the wires
| busy by telephone and telegra phic mes
| slges To big manufacturing concerns
! all over the country. and ii was aScer
| tanned by them that the nine hour
movement had not met with general
success. Several of the largest manu-
facturers in the country had refused
the petition and yet their men con-
! tinued at work. The men at the Bald
win Locomotive works. at Philadelphia
the largest in the country. remained at
work, as did also those at the Schenec-
tady Locomotive works, Pittsburs I4o-
comotive works. and Brooks and Rhode
Island Locomotive works.
The Brooks people, however shut
down voluntarily yesterday, because OF
the opening of the exposition at Buff
falo. The hands at the Allis- Chalmers
big shops in milwaukee, and Chicago
are continuing at work. the company
having granted the nine-hollr day, but
holding the wage question in allegiance
Shops nf the Erie and New York Cen
trnl railroads are in fun blast.
These facts, showing the strikes To
be not universal. encourage the local
manufacturers in the stand they have
taken and gives some authority for the
following statement made by one of
them last night
1T looks Very much as though the
mdchinists and shopmen at Scranton.
together with their employers. are be-
ing left to hold the bag in this move
ment for shorter hours and more pay"
1t came out yesterday thai the ma
chinisls of the Scranton Bolt and Nut
works came within an ace OF effecting
a settlement ANA avoiding Il strike.
President Zehnder offered to give "A
ifty-hve hour week Ia all hands until
October |, 1901, and if II was found
satisfactory To continue it indefinitely;
also 10 allow SiXty-hour wages to all
iiist-claSS machinSts, or if the men
preferred ii. To submit The QuestiO ion of
wages to a board of arbitration whose
findings was 10 be final, The employees
committee took the offer under con-
sideration. but when they came tn
make their answer 1t was n rejection
of Mr.. Xehnder's ultimatum and u
counter III imatum OF IL hitN-fOur hour
week at siNty-hour wages for all men
alike, the demand made uni,edly by all
machinists.
The machiniSts argue that the strike
Cannoth be of long duration. as there
Is n dearth of skilled mechanics. and
all companies will experience the
greatest difficulty in securing compe-
tent help 10 operate their plants. They
furthermore assert that foiemen AT
the local shops broadly mtimated To
them before they struck that 1t would
not be many days before they could
resume work, on the terms they de
manded.
As result of the strike the two
Cleveland engines which wee being
Tested ON the Delaware, LacKawannm
n Western road, and a third which
has Just been turned out OF tho Dock
son works, are TO be taken from hare
and placed on the Inter- Colonial rail.
way. The inventor. Mr., Cleveland.
says that when the strike is oyer they
win be brought back,
Guernsey Hall,
3l4 Washington ave, Scranton, is the