The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-25
THE STRIKERS LOST
The Increase in Wages viii
Amount to Little.
Most Of Them Will Have to Leave Raleigh to
Get Employment The Strike Cost Them
Some So, 500 in Wages.

People generally yesterday expressed
satisfaction that the machinists strike is
over, though some of the strikers seemed
quite blue over the outcome.
The result is distinctly victory Tor
the railroad. The strikers lose all they
struck for, save very small increase III
wages, and the guarantee that they VIII
be taken back.
In Raleigh this increase amounts TO
very little indeed. OF the twenty-eight
strikers, four will get an increase OF 20
cents day, the other twenty-four get an
increase of 5 cents a day. Before the
strike. the four got $3.50 day, the TWEEN
ty-four got 1910 Under the terms OF the
compromise they all get $2.75 day. In
the shops south of Abbeville, So day
will be paid.
The working day remains the same as
heretofore-ten hours.
At the conference in Portsmouth
on Tuesday representatives from
the shops at fernando, Ports
mouth and Americas voted for
acceptance of the above compromise
Raleigh, Monroe and Hamlet were against
it. Finally a majority agreed to 1t. me
committee of strikers consisted OF the
following persons: j. Thos. Dunn and ii.
H Parker, of Portsmouth; F. F. Harding
of Raleigh, N. c.; A. F. Cooper OF Sa-
vannah Ca; Duncan Stewart, OF Amerl-
Gus. Ca, and r. " Nolan, of Fernandlna,
Fla. The conference between the COM
mittee and the railway officials lasted
pretty much all day.
The terms upon which the strike was
settled are that the men at work IN the
shops in Richmond, Portsmouth, Ralelgn'
Hamlet. Monroe and Abbeville are to re-
ceive 271a and at all other points 81
cents per hour The abolition OF the
| yiece-work system was agreed upon, ana
it was also understood that the appren-
tice system is to be regulated. The ap-
| nrentices who went out with the men
are to be taken back at their old rate
of pay.
President O'Connell, of the International
Association of Machinists, is quoted by
Norfolk paper as saying: THE road mas
agreed to take back such union machln-
lists as went out on the strike. Nnon- union
men will go. The question of nine-hour
dav was not insisted upon by the ma
chinists. but we have secured an increase
of nav all over the system, ranging in
various localities from s to so cents"
1t is stated that under an agreement
between the Coast Line machinists and
that road they are to get whatever terms
the Seaboard Air Line gives. If this be
true the machinists on that road will get
a similar increase in wages. On account
of such an agreement they did not strike.
The men in Raleigh were idle yester-
day and say they do not know when they
will go to work. Master Mechanic stump
is expected here this week to settle that
question AS only six men will be en-
poyed in the shops here, the others VIII
have to be taken elsewhere for employ
ment The big shops are at Portsmouth,
Americas and Fernandina. The others are
like these here, small and for repairs
only.
The strike has cost the Raleigh strik-
ers. in wages fully $4,000, but they say
they do not regret it. They declare that
they would have won out, had Fernan-
dina, Portsmouth and Americas stuck TO
them.