Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-13
BOSTON SUFFERS.
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day and it's effect was quickly felt at
hotels, restaurants and places having
accommodations for only limited sup
ply of coal, and coal dealers were kept
busy answering appeals from anxious
customers for coal which could not be
delivered Several of these applicants
stated that unless coal was forthcom-
ing at once they should be forced to
close their buildings.
Many of the teams of the Adams, Ma
tional and local express companies,
whose. drivers are not affiliated with
the Transfers Union, were at work,
today, but it is stated that, tomorrow.
all will go out with the exception of
thu United States Express Co.'S. men
who belong to no union.
There is also a movement to call out the
hack and cab men, who since the strike
Of the Armstrong Transfer Cos. drivers
have been transferring more or less bag
gage for passengers across the city.
The brewery employees will. it is said,
be locked out by Friday if the strike con-
| tinues, as the supply of coal on hand at
| the various breweries will give out by
| that time, and work will have. to be sus-
pended.
The meetings OF the Central Labor
| Union and of the Building Trades Coun-
| ell, tomorrow night, are awaited with
great interest. 1t is well known that the
| Central Labor Union is not pleased with
the manner in which the present strike
has been conducted and especially with
| the fact that they were not consulted be-
| fore the strike was ordered
There is very strong feeling against
ordering a sympathetic strike on this ac-
| count but it is the general belief that.
| although such action will be bitterly
| fought, the meeting will endorse the
! strike to the extent of ordering out the 50
bodies affiliated in its membership. 1t is
| also believed that the Building Trades
| Council will also take similar action as
matter of principle.
| Noodle Island Assembly LOngshOre-
| mems Union and O'Connell Assembly
| of CharleStown, the two remaining
| longshoremen's unions, voted to join
| the strikers in the morning. The for
| mer controls the men who load and I'M
| load the steamers of the Cunard and
Lcyland Lines in East Boston, and has
| n membership of 1000. Fortunately no
steamers of either line are in port at
| this moment, although one of each line
| is expected, tomorrow. O'Connell AS
| sembly is composed of men who work
on steamers of the Warren. Dominion.
Hamburg American and Wilson-Fur-
ness Leyland Lines, some 400 in all.
| The action of these two bodies COM
pletely ties up the entire water front of
the city.
Expressmens Union, 800, which in
cludes drivers of the Adams, National
American, New York & Boston Dis
patch and Earle & Prev Express Cos.
consisting of 800 members, also voted,
tonight, to order out every member in
the morning.
Already the express business of
Chelsea and East Boston is tied up.
Late tonight there was a decided feel
ing that the Central Labor Union and
the Building Trades Council would not
| order a general sympathetic strike of
their vast membership at their meet
| ings, tomorrow. and it was conceded
| that their failure to do this would
prove a most important factor toward
the early adjustment of the existing
troubles.
Secretary Ralph M. Easley of the
National Civic Federation is expected
here. early in the morning, and has
wired several of the prominent labor
leaders to meet him in conference at
Young's hotel at s o'clock tomorrow
morning. Later in the day he will be
present at a meeting of representative
business men and labor leaders who
will be in conference in response to the
invitation extended to them, today, by
the State Board of Arbitration. Those
to whom invitations have been sent
are:
Jerome Jones and George w. Learn
ed. representing the Chamber of Com
merce; A. A. Lawrence, A. c. Farley
and A. B. Wilson, the latter represent
ing Secretary e. H. Walcott on behalf
of the Merchants Associations; James
r. Carter and John Mason Little of the
Associated Board of Trade; Samuel
| Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor; James Duncan,
! first vice president of the A. F. L.;
Frank A. Mccarthy. president of the
| Massachusetts State Branch of the
A. f. L.; James r. Corsier, president
| Boston Central Labor Union; John A.
| Kenney, Mark A. Mulvey, Jos. j. Dom
nelly of the knights of Labor and John
| +. O'Sullivan, fourth vice president In
| terna tional Typographical Union. 1t
| is also probable that the presidents of
some of the railroads will be present at
| the conference.
| A particularly interesting feature of the
strike is the unusually quiet appearance
| of the streets and the excellent manner
| in which the strikers have conducted
| themselves ever since the strike began.
| Although groups of men are to be seen
| lounging about discussing the situation,
| they are orderly and only In rare in
| stances is an intoxicated man seen. In
view of their crippled condition the differ
ent railroad companies have been max
| ing strenuous efforts to secure men to
| take the places of their striking freight
handlers and clerks, and have succeeded
| in getting a large number from the towns
and cities along their respective lines.
The Boston & Maine officials will rein
state all their old men who make appli-
cation for their old places, tomorrow, but
those who fail to report at that time will
find their occupation gone.
The situation at the freight terminals
of the New York New Haven d Hart
ford, today. as officially analysed at the
office OF the general manager, Is more ia
yora HE 10 the road than that of Tuesday.