The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-19
STRIKE OF MACHINISTS
TOMORROW NEARLY TWO HUNDRED
MEN Will QUIT WORK
Action Taken ut n Meeting of the
lnion-No Big Four Strike
Labor Notes.
Union held a large meet

The Machinists' Union held a large meet
ing in Germania Hall last night to canvass
the pending strike situation. and, according
TO its action, about 175 machinists will re-
fuse to go TO work tomorrow morning. The
firms that have not signed the agreement,
and where the strike will be authorized
providing no settlement is effected before Z
o'clock tomorrow morning. are the Ma
tional Automobile and Electric Company, c..
az A. Potts & Co, the American Bicycle
Company, the ckw Manufacturing
Company, the Chandler & Taylor Company
and Dean Bros pump works. The Rock
wood Manufacturing Company, the Chan
dler & Taylor Company and Dean Bros. are
in the Metal Trades Association and say a
settlement rests with that organization and
the international Association of Machinists.
Twenty machinists employed by the Ma
tional Automobile and Electric Company
struck at noon yesterday. leaving but two
men in the plant. 1t is said that the men
employed by c. & A. Potts & Co. received
notices of discharge with their pay envel-
opes yesterday, and the men at the Amer
lean Bicycle Company have been ordered to
quit work in the morning. These decisions
were reached by the men themselves and
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meeting of the union.
Negotiations are pending between the
union and the l., ID. q W. and Parkhurst
Bros, and a settlement is expected without
a strike. There are also a number of small
firms employing one to a half dozen ma
chinists that are being lost sight Of in the
attempt to reach an agreement with the
large firms. but these will be taken up later.
The strike order will he hold i'm ahaNanna
with concerns that show a disposition TO
treat with the union after the order is
given, and all hasty action is being de-
cried. A resolution was adopted by the
meeting that no applications for positions
should be allowed to be filed if they could
be prevented by peaceable inducement.
In addition 10 the anticipated strike of
the machinists il Is said the allied metal
trades may also take a hand in the affair
where their demands are not granted. 1t is
said the pattern makers, swho have every
member of their craft in the city in their
organization, will demand a nine-hour day
and increase in wages Tuesday, and IL the
demand is not granted they will go out.
Other trades affected are iron molders,
metal workers, metal polishers, buffers,
platers, brass workers. boiler makers
blacksmiths and helpers. These are the
trades that President O'Connell has asked
TO cooperate with the machinists, but it is
understood that where a settlement has
been enected by any or these particular
craftsmen they will give nothing but their
moral support. The boiler makers have al
ready secured a satisfactory agreement
from all of the firms I'm the city. and ii is
announced by the officers of the union that
they will not strike. The condition of the
other trades is not known, as they have
either settled their differences or have not
presented a demand.
Yesterday several large firms signed the
agreement. The firms that have now
signed the agreement and that will not be
affected by the strike order are the Atlas
engine works, the f.. c. Atkins Company,
the Howard Machine Company, Berry *
Duke, Sinker * Davis. the Hetherington q
Berner Company, Z. Il. Laycock, the Jen-
Eey Electric Manufacturing Company. the
indianapolis Drop Forge Company and the
Big -Four Railway Company.