The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-13
BOSTON STRIKE SITUATION
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 be locked out by Friday if the strike continues, as the supply of coal on hand at the various breweres will give out by that time and work will have to be suspended.
 The meetings of the Central Labor union and of the Building Trades coun- ci tomorrow night are awaited With great interest. It is well known that the Central Labor union is not pleased with the manner in which the present strike has been conducted, and espe- cially with the fact that they were not consulted before the strike was ordered. There is a very strong feeling against ordering sympathetic strike on this account, 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 ninety bodies affiliated in it's member ship. It is also believed that the Build ing Trades council will also take simi- far action as matter of principle.
 Noddle Island assembly, 'Longshore- mems union, and O'Connell assembly of Charlestown, the two remaining long shoremen's unions, voted to join the strikers in the morning. The former controls the men who load and unload the steamers of the Cunard and Ley land lines in East Boston and has a membership of 1000. No steamers of either line are in port at this moment, although one of each line Is expected tomorrow. O'Connell assembly is com posed of men who work on steamers of the Warren, Dominion, Hamburg American and Wilson Furness- Leyland lines, some four hundred in all The action of these two bodies ties up the entire water front of the city.
 Expressmens union 309. which in- cludes drivers of the Adams. National, American, New York and Boston Dis patch and Earle & Prev Express com panies, consisting of 920 members, also voted tonight to order out every mem Der in the morning. Already the ex- press business of Chelsea and East Bos- ton is tied up.
 Late tonight there was a decided feeling that the Central Labor union and the Building Trades council would not order a general pathetic strike of their vast membership at their meet ings tomorrow. and it was conceded that their failure to do this would prove most important factor toward the early adjustment of the existing trou- bles
 Secretary Ralph M Easley, of the National Civic Fedora ton, is expected here early in the morning and has wired several of the prominent labor leaders to meet him in conference at Youngs hotel at o'clock to- morrow morning. Later in the day he will be present at a conference of representa- tive business men and labor leaders in response to the invitation extended to them to-day by the state board of ar bitration. Those to whom Invitations have been sent are: Jerome Jones and George W. Learned representing the Chamber of Commerce; A. A. Law renee, A. c, Farley and A. B. Wilson, the latter representing Secretary F. H Walcott, on behalf of the Merchants associa ton; James R. Garter 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 A. F. L.: Frank A. Mccarthy. presi- dent of the Massachusetts state branch of the A. F. L.; James R. Crosier; pres ident of the Boston Central Labor union; John A. Kenney, Mark A. Null vey and Joseph J. Donnelly of the Knights of Labor, and John F. O'Sulli- van, fourth vice president of the Inter- national Typographical union. It Is also probable that the presidents of some of the railroads will be present at the conference.
 The Lumber Trade club, which em- braces all the retail dealers, has de- cided to close all lumber yards and keep them closed until the "unfortu- nate strike now in force without cause" shall end.