The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-02-28
$1,000 FOR
STRIKERS.
Building Trades Council
Appropriates 1t to Help
Them Out.
BARNES pEopLy MONT lRBIERATE
Mill Wood Workers Do No
Violence but Remain
Firm.

That the strike of the employees of the
Barnes Manufacturing Company's sash
and blind factory on West Side avenue
will, as predicted by the News be a
long one and far reaching in its effects,
was made evident at last nights meeting
of the United Building Trades Council of
Hudson County at Council Hall, Ii Hobok-
en- avenue, when $500 was, by a unani-
nous vote. appropriated to aid the locked
out men.
In addition, all the affiliated locals were
requested to give the mill wood workers
such additional financial assistance as lay
in their power, and at the subsequent
Injecting of the executive board of the
Council the Business Agent was directed
to at once withdraw all the affiliated in
dustries from jobs on which material
from the Barnes mill was being used.
1t was also decided, if necessary, to ap-
peal to the National Building Trades
Council for financial support for the str1k-
ers. In addition the executive board OF
Mill Wood Workers Union No. lis, to
which the locked out men belong, Will ap-
peal for financial and moral support TO
organizations OF the industry in nearby
places where the output of the Barnes
mill is used. =
BY this action of last night the Council
has now made tire mill workers fight the
battle of all the affiliated industries III
the building line against the Barnes Com
pany, and by the rejection of the offer OF
the State Board of Arbitration to endeav-
or to adjust the difficulty. the allied
trades bodies have served notice that
there will no compromise
The communication from the State
Board of Arbitration was addressed to
Business Agent R. E. Edwards of the
Carpenters District Council of Hudson
sounty, and read as follow
This board is both willing and anxious
to do anything in its power to bring about
a harmonious settlement of the trouble
between the Barnes Manufacturing Com
pany and their employees. Please let me
know what you think about it."
The communication was signed by
James Martin. of East Orange, on behalf
of the board, the other members of which
are VIM. NJ. Doughty, Jacob Van Hook.
John W. Dent and James D. Smith
The Mill Wood Workers delegates de-
nned the position of the Iocked-out men,
in regard to the offer of the State Board,
that they had nothing to arbitrate. The
Barnes people had already announced
that they would consent to nothing except
unconditional surrender" to a ten-hour
day, and there was not an employe of the
mill who would ever return to work there
unless the nine-hour day was re-estab-
lished.
There is absolutely no change in the
situation at the mill. The same large
force of policemen and city detectives,
as well as a number of detectives hired
by the Barnes Company, including Cap
tain Jack Graham, are on duty in the
neighborhood from six to eight o'clock
in the morning About fifteen policemen
and the private detectives patrol in
the vicinity of the mill until sortly be-
fore five o'clock, when they are re-enfoc-
ed by the other reserves and city detec-
tives, who escort the "scabs' from the
mill to the Newark Turnpike cars, and
thence to their respective homes.
All this precaution is taken for the pro-
lection of the "scabs'' despite the fact
that there has not been a single disturb
ance created by the lockedout men since
the strike began, week ago Monday.
In fact none of the strikers, except those
assigned to picket duty, now put in an
appearance in the vicinity of the mill.
Although the mill owners claim that
they have all the men they need to oper-
ate the plant and can obtain more if they
want them, the fact remains that just
twenty-one men in civilian clothes left
under escort of the police when the mill
closed last night. OF these seven were
detectives, SC there were really fourteen
men filling the places of the one hundred
strikers at the mill yesterday.
Although the Barnes people have adver-
tised extensively for additional men the
strikers pickets reported last night that
not a single man applied for work there
yesterday.
Everything was quiet and orderly this
morning in the vicinity. The pickets, who
were kept at considerable distance from
the mill by the police did not attempt to
interfere with anyone applying for work.
Business Agent r. e. Edwards of the
Carpenters. the representative of the
Mill Wood Workers, and Agent T. F.
Conroy of the Council, were in the neigh
borhood watching the progress of af-
fairs.
The strikers feel much elated over the
support given them by the affiliated in
dustries, and are confident that they will
win. No overtures looking towards COM
promise will be made. Quite a number of
them have obtained positions in other
mills and are assisting their less fortunate
brothers in every way possible.
The mill owners re-assert that they will
not give in, but as it now appears that
the strike may be indefinitely prolonged.
they may find it to their interests to do
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Will RtcK Strikers