The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09


makers here, he announced that he had
been instructed to say to them that the
n en- of his lodge had decided to return
to work on the terms offered by the
company. A hurried meeting of the
local men was called. at which it was
voted that the best policy was to act
with the Needles lodge. A few minutes
later Mechanical Superintendent Jough-
ms was acquainted with the resolution,
the offer was accepted, and the strike,
which had dragged along for 10 weary
weeks, was at an end.
THE TERMS OF SETTLEMENT.
The terms of settlement. made up of
the combined concessions of both par
ties concerned, are as follows:
That the company takes back into its
employ and without prejudice all of the
boilermakers who struck, together with
the apprentices who went out of SYM
patty with them.
That the men will hold no prejudice
against any employees which the COM
pany may see fit to have in it's boiler
department, whether they be non-union
men or otherwise.
That the company will give the men
at Needles 80 cents per hour and time
and a half overtime. and the men in
this place the old scale, or 35 cents an
hour, and time and half overtime.
The company promises that no union
boilermaker will be asked to work with,
as a partner, any non-union man, nor
be obliged to work under any foreman
'
The men agreed to return to work at
once, subject to the foremanship and
orders of James Madden, the present
boilermaker foreman.
The matter of apportioning appren-
tees will be arbitrated by the grievance
committee and the management when
convenient.
The company agrees that C. L. Will
son, over whom the local trouble orig
mated, will be given his old place in the
San Bernardino shop.
Lastly, the company agrees that the
boilermakers' union will have the same
rights of formal appeal, in case of mis-
understandings which may in the flu
ture arise between the company and tbs
union, as the trainmen now enjoy. If
a man is to be discharged he is to be
called to the shop office and given
notice. He will have the right to know
why he is discharged, while the griev-
ance committee will have equal priv
ileges. If this last body is of the opin-
ion that the man has been justly dis
i missed, well and good. If not, the
chairman will carry the matter to the
next higher official in power and so on
until the highest tribunal is reached.
be at work. as will be all of the union
men, while such a thing as a strike
will only be resorted to when the high
est appeal possible has been made and
refused.
In the opinion of Chairman Charlton,
this last promise on the part of the
company is worth all the others put to-
gether
It's the grand right of appeal and
recognition which we have obtained by
our months of perseverance, and that is
worth all the raise of wages in exist
ence. No victory had ever been obtain
ed in a grander manner than was ours.
We have set a precedent which might
! be followed by all strikes to come, if the
country must have more of them, for 7
i am certain that no more orderly cam
paign was ever carried on. That is the
sense in which 1 used the word grand,
and not with a feeling of elation, for
we have conceded to the company just
| as much as it has conceded to u.s.
THE NUMBER INVOLVED.
In this city the strike has involved Is
boilermakers and IS apprentices All of
these, with the exception of one or two.
who are out of town. will return to
work at noon today.
In Needles 10 boilermakers and zone
apprentice have been affected. OF that
number, eight went to work yesterday
noon, four last evening, and the rest
will so back today.
On last evenings overland William
Charlton and Fremont Buell. returned
to their homein Needles. They were
accompanied by w. H. Ruvane and c.
L. Wilson, who will spend the day there
getting acquainted with the boys
Regarding the men who have been
doing the work of the strikers at this
place and in Needles for two months,
there is no reason to believe that they
/ will be removed, for the present at least
From indications they will be retained
at scale wages, and be paired off, ac-
cording to the agreement, among them.
selves. There are at present Is of these
men working at the local shops.