Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-08
NEITHER SIDE YIELDS
STRIKE OF CARRIAGE WORKERS
NOT YET ENDED.
Settlement Believed, However, to Be
Probable-Statements Made To-
day-Meetings Called.

The strike of the carriage workers con-
tinues. and neither the association of en-
ployers nor the labor union shows any in
clination to recede. The bosses will hold a
meeting tomorrow night, when their plans
will be decided upon, but at the present
time they are unwilling to discuss their
probable course of action further than to
say that the determination to refuse the
strikers demands remains unchanged. They
also stated that the Merchants Transfer
and Storage Company, which granted the
raise in wages to the strikers yesterday. is
not affiliated with the Association of Car
riage Makers.
Officers of the journeymen's union. when
seen at their headquarters this morning,
were hopeful of early adjustment of the
trouble, and said indications pointed to a
settlement Of the strike tomorrow night.
But as both parties to the difficulty are de-
termined in their contentious this would
seem to be predetermined.
Mr.. John Brinkman. secretary Of the
Carriage and Wagon Makers Union. Local
NO. ~, said that communications were re-
celVed at headquarters this morning from
TWO hrmS IN the Carriage and Wagon Max
ers Association, indicating their willing
ness TO accede to the demands of the
union, and the committee was instructed
to confer with the firms in regard to the
matter. ~
A letter was also received from Fire
ohie1 button this morning, thanking the
union Tor granting his request for union
Wofkmen to repair any serious damage to
the apparatus of the department, should
any occur.
At the meeting of the Central Labor
Union last night a joint committee was an
pointed from that body and the carriage
workers to interview the brewers bakers
ana other firms in the city who are known
10 De 1aVorably disposed toward union la
Dor exclusively, and endeavor to prevail
upon them to give their patronage to those
hrms which have acceded to the demands
OF the union. Today the joint committee
Is carrying out that plan.
Pledges Support.
Inc central body pledged its moral and
financial support to the journeymen. and it
is said that few strikes have ever aroused
so much enthusiasm among the allied trades
as this one. Mr.. Brinkman. the secretary
OF Local No. 70 said the reason for this
undivided support is that the demands are
SO just and reasonable. Local unions. he
sald, animated with the central organiza-
uon VIII correspond with the leading busi-
ness hrms asking them to discriminate in
favor of the Carriage Workers Union.
Inc union is not relying the indca-
tions Tor settlement said Mr. Brinkman,
out Is perfectlng its plans to make the
strike more effective than 1t is at present
ana II necessary to prolong the fight to an
indefinite. period
The strikers are enthusiastic and have
surpassed all expectations of the officers of
the union. We have no apprehension that
any of the members will prove disloyal to
the organization
One feature of this strike that is gratify-
ing, he said. is the good will expressed for
the employers The union men were using
no harsh words against the BOSSES he said,
and there was personally a friendly feeling
among the men for their old employers.
Our organization is willing to confer
with the bosses said Mr.. Brinkman,
whenever they show a disposition to settle
the controversy, but the union has very
little to concede. However, we believe q
feeling might be engendered by such con-
ference that would bring the trouble to
close.
In Case of Failure.
Mr. VIM. F. Landgraf, president Of the
union, said: Even If we should lose in
this fight-but we know we will not-these
shops which have not acceded to our de-
mands will still be classed as unfair and
that will operate against them seriously
for organized labor will continue it's oppo-
sition to them
The Carriage Workers Union will hold a
meeting tonight and will formally ratify
the action of the joint committee, which is
looking after the interests of the union
In the intervals between meetings.
The officers of the union denied the pub
lished statements of employers that the
men who receive S15 to $1S per week are
employed fiftytwo weeks in the year. They
said the majority of these higher-priced
mechanics ire not steadily employed. They
also said that Washington was a repair
city and was not a city of manufac curing
They denied that a raise in prices of work
by the employers would drive business
from the city.