The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-15
TO ARBITRATE.
Business Agent Conroy Will
Seek an Amicable
Adjustment.
BARNES SAYS STRIKE is OYER
He Has Sixty Men at Work
and Is Willing to Take
Back Some Old Men.

AS predicted in last nights News" the
| members of the different local unions affi,
lated with the United Building Trades
Counsel of Hudson county were with.
Eerawn yesterday from many jobs or
(which material from the Barnes Manufac.
Eturing Company's mill was being used
EOther strikes viii follow today and BY
nightfall it is expected that all similar
JOBS throughout the county win be tied
Isup. Business Agents Thomas F. Conroy
OF the Building Trades Council and R. E.
Edwards of the Carpenters District
council, experienced no difficulty in with
uraWlng the affiliated industries in sup
port of the locked out mill wood workers.
An offer to arbitrate the difficulty will
pc made to the Barnes Company by Agent
Gonroy this afternoon. He has already
submitted the names of Mr.. Holmes and
county Register James C. Clarke as sat
ssfactory representatives of the strikers
en an arbitration committee To these is
20 be added the name of Street and Water
Commissioner Anthony Hauck
Ihe proposition made by Agent Conroy
IS for the Barnes people to select two of
the three names submitted by him and
name two others to represent their in
terests The four thus chosen to select
q NTH member and this body to hear both
sides and endeavor to arbitrate the diff
Guilty.
In the event of the failure of the eff
fort to arbitrate it is likely that as a
last resort a general tie-up of all build
ing operations in the county will result.
-n Wood Workers Union, No. lis, to
which the strikers belong, will meet to-
night at Rhettwick's Hall, No. e42 New
ark avenue, and hear the reports of its
representative and Carpenters Agent Ed
wards
There is no change in the situation at
the mill, except that about one-half the
policemen who have been on duty there
during the past three weeks have been
withdrawn. Reinforcements of police are
sent to the mill each morning and night
to protect the new men on their way to
and from work
F. G. Barnes, president of the Barnes
Manufacturing Company, yesterday after
noon made statement in reply to an
interview with one of the leaders of the
la2lyed-ort employees published in a--re-
cent issue of 'sThe News" He said
I'm the West they work ten to eleven
hours a day at wages fifteen per cent.
less than in the East. In order to meet
the competition of the Western firms we
were obliged to increase the time schedule
Of our employees from nine to ten hours.
There is no need for this controversy
AS far as this firm is concerned the strike
is at an end. We have sixty-nine men
now at work and are filling our orders
promptly.
when the Barnes Company first start
ed here it was on a small scale and it's
business was mainly local, but as the
business increased we came into com
petition with New York and Western
firms. Even now our laborers are paid
25 cents day more than in the West
GAS to the criticism of the police pro-
lection of the mill during the strike, as
far as we could see there was no need of
SO many policemen, but we understand
that there would have been many broken
heads if it had not been for the presence
of the bluecoats.
eve will engage additional men as we
need them, and if any of our former em-
ployes apply for work and there are
places for them they will be given the
same chance as others. AS far as the
strike is concerned, however, repeat that
it is at an end"