The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-28

Yesterday marked the beginning of
what the striking machinists and car
shop men say will soon be general
exodus of the imported employees oi
the Delaware. Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad company. twenty-five
men drew their pay at noon. gave up
their places i'm the machine shop ana
left the city. and last evening twenty
mon filed into the l.ackaWanna sta :
tion for their wages ana left on the
1.35 o'clock train this morning. Nine
teen more will leave today.
Within n short period. the council
in charge of the strike intends to re-
quest all the foremen who have been
allowed thus far to remain III the
shops. to give the strikers their sup
port and themselves cease work.
\ large number of the machinistS
and others on stik" have accepted
positions clecwhdrc and daily out
going trains bear largo numbers from
the city some of the men going as
far as Butte city. Montana. and Others
lurposng to find work in Indiana. A
representative of Sargent. lngersoll n
co.. Of t.aston, IS now in the city,
seeking the best men formerly en-
plcyed by the Allis- Chalmers. Dickson
and l.ackawanna companies. tn"
l.aston company has adjusted it's diff
f"ulties with it's men and is now taxi
ing on an increased force.
The I.ackawanna Iron and steel
company yesterday began the work
of dsmantling the machine shops. be-
low the North Mill, at which the men
struck last Monday. Several large
pieces of machinery wcr" removed
and 1t is expected that within a few
weeks all of it will have been taken
out. after which tn" shop will be torn
down. The engines. drills. etc. are 10
BE- shipped 10 Buffalo. at the COM
rdny'S earliest convenience. Til" cX-
elusive announcement made in NeSter-
days Tribune of the Preparations he
ing made by the I.a"kawannd 10 fight
the strik" by putting on fifty new en-
gincs aroused much comment during
the day. Chairman Campbell. Of the
council, recently received the follow.
lowing telegram regarding these en-
gincs from A. T. Murphy. secretary Of
the Schenectady local:
Five locomotives on road now. Will write
\. t.. Murphy
Yesterday morning the .\llis- -Chal-
mcr strikers met at 80 o'clock. at
Hulbcrt's hall. formed in line and
marched tn the shops for their pay
In the AFTERNOON the Finch Manufa@-
turing companys employees and tn"
men of the Dickson Manufacturing
company's Cliff street works received
their wages. The situation on the
whole remains unchanged.
An amount of ear repairing Is being
done at I;oudsboro by the Lacka
wanna. where Foreman Knuth has a
gang of men at work. Fifty of the
ear builders employed at Buffalo were
reported as going on strike Yesterday
afternoon.
Patrick Mcttalc, a steam filter. was
arrested yesterday at the instance of
the Delaware. I.ackaWanna and West
rrn company. as being one of the men
who attempted to start d riot Al the
car shops Sunday evening when the
alarm of fire was sounded from Box
2l3.
The specific charge against Mctlalc
was that he attempted to pun away
fror, Special Officer Spcllman Il boy
whom the latter had arrested. II was
at first thought that hc was one Of
the strikers. bat he denied this. where
upon Magistrate Millar, before whom
the case was tried, rcbuked him Sc
Ncrcly for causing trouble for which
other peaccabe men were blamed. He
fined him $40 ana costs.