The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-28
TROLLEY men
WONT STRIKE
ALL DIFFICULTIES HAVE BEEN
AMIcABLY SETTLED.
Company Agrees That II Will Not
Require Employees to Work With
Non Union Men, but It L. Provided
That This Agreement IL Not to Be
Allowed TO Interfere in any Way
with the Company Receiving suffi-
cient Men to Operate The Keller
and sesley Cases.

A working contract for a year has
been agreed upon between General
Manager Silliman and the employees
committee and the same has been
ratified by President Clarke. on the
one side. and the employees union on
the other.
The necessary signatures viii be at
tached today.
The contract is made up of the wage
scale, the ten-hour agreement and the
agreement concerning the relations Of
the company to the union.
1t was this last matter that threat
ered a renewal of the strike, but after
week of conferences an amicable adj
jistment has been reached.
The original demand of the men was
that none except union men should
he employed by the company on any
of its cars or in the barn.
When this was submitted 10 General
Manager Silliman, on week ago Satur-
day, he refused to pass upon It until
he had consulted with President
Clarke. The latter came here Wednes-
day and had "a conference with the
committee that day and the next.
President Clarke agreed to acquiesce
in everything except the clause cover
Ing membership in the union, and that.
he said, he could not and would not
ratify.
AZ 4 COMPROMISE.
by way of compromise. the COM
peny expressed itself as willing TO
sign an agreement 10 the effect that
no man should he Disseminated
against because of mis- connection with
the union, and that as far as Keller
and Seeley We're concerned the COM
pany would see To ii that Seeley was
not to work with union men, Sprovid-
ing Keller was taken into the union.
The committee reported the result of
its conference TO the men at meet
ing held Friday morning. The men
! would not hear to the company's COM
promise proposition and came within
an ace of adopting a motion to strike
| if the company did not agree TO the
| original demand within twenty-fOur
| hours. The more conservative elc-
ment. however, prevailed and the mo>
| ton to strike was laid over till the
| committee could again wait upon this
company officials and endeayor To cf-
| feet an amicabie settlement.
|
Clarke was that the demand of the
men was Illegal, that the courts, time
| and again, had decided AN employer
could not be constrained in the mat
| ter of choosing employees. and that any
agreement like the one which the men
wanted the company To sign was in
| direct conflict with the letter and
spirit of the law.
| CONSULTED ATTORNEY.
| Friday night the committee Cun-
suited Attorney NJ. L. Conry on the
matter and next morning it waited on
President Clarke and Mr.. Silllman
with its demands modified 10 read that
no union employe should be required
Ivy the company to work with non
! union men, except when such non
union men had made application for
membership in the union, and then
not for longer period of time than
thirty days from the date of the em-
plcyment of said non-union man.
| After a session lasting from 8 o'clock
| in the morning until 3 o'clock in the
| afternoon, the company officials agreed
to the insertion OF the clause in the
contract, providing there was codi-
| ell attached to the effect that the
foregoing clause shall in no way in-
terfere with the company in securing
a sufficient number of men To operate
! its system"
| II was also agreed that the company
would in no way discriminate agains,
members of the union that Seeley
should be cared for by the company
and that Keller should be taken into
| the union.
The men passed upon these matters
yesterday morning at session lasting
from = till g. They approved the rec-
| ommendation of the committee that the
| modified demand and the codicil at
| tached by the company be concurred
in, and also elected Keller a member
of the union.
This means that when "a man is EN-
| ployed by the company the men are
not to be required TO teach him until
| he makes application for membership
in the union, and that If at the end OF
| thirty days he does not join the union
the company will have to discharge
| him.
WILL BE DISMISSED
Likewise, if "a man is three months
| in arrears for dues, or for any Other
cause forfeits his membership in the
union, the company will have to dis
miss him from the service.
The purpose OF the codicil, which the
company succeeded in having attached
to the agreement, is to provide against
the possibility of a large number OF
men quitting or being expelled from
| the union