Evening star., 1901-05-20

refusal of their employees to grant a nine
hour day. The firms thus far affected are
all small concerns employing anywhere
from ten to forty machinists. The most
prominent are Pedrck & Aver, forty men;
Fred Klein, twenty men, and Tabor Manu-
featuring Company, thirty-fve men.
Thus far there has been no trouble at
the Baldwin locomotive works, the Mid
vale steel works or the Cramp Ship ana
Engine Building Company's works.
The Midvale machinists held a meeting
on Saturday afternoon to discuss the ques-
ton. but what action was taken is not
known. 1t is reported that the men at
this plant will quit work this afternoon OF
tomorrow morning. but the company mas
not been made aware of any such determl-
nation
Neither the Baldwin locomotive works
nor the Cramp company anticipate any
trouble. They do not knowingly employ
union workmen.
The 135 men employed by the Electro-
Dynamic Company also struck today. Inc
company has a contract for parts OF the
engines of the six boats of the Hoiianu
submarine type. which are beng punt pS
the British government.
The 300 machinists employed by tne
PENNSYLVANIA iron works went on strike at
noon.
The Strike at Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG, May 2o.-About 1oo machih-
lists at the McKee's Rocks plant OF the
Pressed Steel Car Company struck TINS
morning for a nine-hour day 1t mad peeh
arranged that all the organized labor at
the works was also to come out on SYM
pathy strike, but this did not take place,
although the strike leaders claim that
general strike will follow later. The places
of the strikers have been filled by laborers
employed about the mill. Less than loo
machinists are idle today at the otner
plants in the city, all but four firms having
signed the scale.
The Oil Well Supply Co. and the Amer
can Steel and Wire Co. signed the scale TO-
day Hevl K Patterson. the Oliver iron
and Steel Co. and the Pittsburg ShaftlnS
| Co. have refused to sign. In this dlstrlct
! lot firms employing nearly 4. $40 machlhists
/ have signed the scale and the men are at
! work
! HAZLETON. Pa. May 20-The machin-
lists and molders employed at the HaZletOn
| and Jeanesvile Iron Works did not strike,
! as all their demands were granted today
! At these establishments the men are to
work ten hours day Tor the 1lrst hNe
! days and enjoy half holiday on Satur-
days at full pay, which is equal to nine
| hours a day at full wages. The men at
! GAINESVILLE were granted a . per cent in
crease some time ago. which. with the con-
| cessions made today, is equal TO a total in
crease of IL IL per cent since last Septem-
ber.
The machinists and molders in the Lehgh
| Valley railroad shops at Weatherly pre-
sented no demands, as they have been
working under union rules for some time.
| General Tie-Up at Scranton.
| SCRANTON, Pa, May 2O.-Every machine
| shop in Scranton is idle today, the strike
| ordered by Interna tional President OCon-
nell going into full effect on the demand for
a day of nine hours and increase of IL
| per cent in wages. Altogether 5000 men
quit work this morning, and these, with the
| Lackawanna railroad machiniSts and car
! shop men out for a week past, make nearly
/ ;,O00 strike in Scranton. The big estab-
| lishments idle today are the Dickson works
| of the Allis-Chalmers Company, Finch s
foundry and machine shops. Scranton nut
and bolt works, Simpson shops of the Dela-
! ware and Hudson Company and the ]. B..
| Poore Company.
| and Steel Company also quit work this
! morning. and this will probably cause the
| shutting down of this big Industry before
many days, adding 500 more men to those
| idle.
! The Dickson works this morning posted a
notice agreeing to give nine hours day and
arbitrate the wage issue. The men ignored
the notice in obedience to interna tonal In
StructiOns.
WILKESBARRE, Pa, May 2O.-The ma
| chinists blacksmiths, repairers and la
| borers employed at the shops of the Central
railroad of New Jersey. the Lehigh Valley
| Company went out on strike today. Fifteen
| hundred men and boys are idle.
No Unusual Trouble at EastOn.
EASTON. Pa, May 2O.-There is no un-
| usual trouble in labor circles here today.
| All the machinsts employed in the Inger-
| soll-Sergeant drill plant, the Lehigh Val
| ley railroad and other large shops IN this
| section are at work. The brcklayers,
plasterers and hod carriers in Easton and
| Phillipsburg out. They struck two
weeks ago.
READING. May 20.-There was strike
of machinists here today. The only members
of the union in this city are employed by
the Reading Iron Works Company, and
they are out with the striking tube work
ers. Sixteen hundred men quit work two
weeks ago. and were afterward locked out
by order of the president of the company
YORK, Pa. May 2O.-But two shops in
this city were affected by the machinists
strike today Two hundred men in the
employ of the York Manufacturing Com
pany and S. Morgan Smith quit work.