The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-18
ANvILS CEASE
TO RING
Five Hundred Hudson County
Blacksmiths Go On
Strike for a Ten Per
Cent. Raise.
SIX Big SHOPS AFFECTED.
No Attention Was Paid to a
Notice Not Properly Seal
ed-May Spread To.
morrow.
SIX Big SHOPS AFFECTED.

About FIVE hundred blacksmiths EN-
ployed in the numerous machine shop
throughout this County went out OF
strike this morning for ten per cent
increase in wages. Unless the increas
is granted it is likely that the machinist
and other mechanics in the shops vii
be called out in sympathy with the strik
ers, and a general tie-up is anticipated
As it is, most of the large shops are to
day crippled for want of blacksmiths t
do the work on hand, and the employer
are unanimous in expressing dissatisfac
ton over the condition of affairs.
THOSE AFFECTED.
No trouble had occurred at any of thu
shops up to the time .The News wen
to press.
Some of the shops affected by thu
strike are those of the Frederick A. Yer
don Company, w. and A. Fletcher Com
pany and w. H. Atkinson, in Hoboken
and Theodore Smith & Sons, Brown 4
Miller and Michael Russell, in this city
Each employer was served with tn,
following notice by the union a week ago
To whom it may concern:
Sir-We, the undersigned, as per
signatures, representing the ANAL
gamated Societies of Engineers and
Blacksmiths, ETC., the Interna tional
Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and the
Brotherhood of Blackslniths and the
Brotherhood Of Blacksmiths' Help
ers' Unions, do hereby request of you
H. -. .la., &s,xx - n ..aa1. = Il
vance i'll wages of all the helpers in
this agreement.
Also the International Brother
hood Of Blacksmiths, party to this
agreement, together with the black
smiths of the Amalgamated Societies
of England, request minimum
rate of $3.50 per day of nine hours
with 10 per cent. advance to all
blacksmiths receiving $3.50 and over.
We believe that our request is JUS
tifable. when the conditions of
trade are considered; also the ad-
vance in prices of the necessities of
life 1t may be noticed that no gem
eral request has been made by these
unions before; further no advance
has been given these men except in
isolated cases. We respectfully re-
quest that you give this your consid-
GRAFTON so that we may have a reply
not later than Saturday, August 16,
1902.
We believe this request should be
granted. so as to go into effect on
Monday, August IS, 1902 Should
you desire conference between
now and and, the sixteenth day Of Au-
gust, 1902, we will be pleased to re-
ceive notice to that effect, and the
same will be duly attended to.
Respectfully yours
William L. Parker. Business Agent
of Blacksmiths; William Delahay,
of Amalgamated Societies of Engi-
neers and Blacksmiths, ETC., and
Michael Walsh, Business Agent of
Blacksmiths' and Helpers Unions,
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
NO UNION SEAL.
As the circular did not bear the sea
of the union none of the employers pait
any particular attention to it. In many
of the shops the blacksmiths receive s.
per day. A beater is paid S215 and {
helper 50. The employers consider the
present scale of wages excellent, con
sidering the increase in the price of coal
Mr.. Frederick A. Verdon, of the Verdor
shops in Hoboken, said to a reporter OF
''The News this morning that he coult
not understand why the men demanded
an increase at this time. Not long age
the blacksmiths in Verdon's shop were
given a considerable raise in wages Mr.
Yerdon said that no committee from tho
strikers had called upon him to offer any
IF Ia a. ~,
were employed in the verdon works. SIX
twenty-ton derricks for use OH the New
York subway are in course of construc
tion in the shop. Work on these stopped
as soon as the men struck.
AT THEO. SMITHS.
The blacksmiths of Theodore Smitl
Brothers & Co., of Hudson street, wen
out on strike this morning taking thei
helpers with them. They demand tha
all men receiving less than three dollar
and half per day shall receive thre
dollars and a half and those who are a
that figure shall have an additional tel
per cent. The helpers, too, they ask
shall get the ten per cent addition ant
the days work shall be considered a
nine hours.
These demands having been sent to III
employers on Saturday and they not hav
ing signifed their intention to comply tin
men quit work this morning. There wa
no disturbance, although Chief Murpll.
sent down to the works some men to pre-
serve order.
The same state of things exists at th
shops of Brown & Miller and Mcssrs
Russell Co.
EA1TERS OF FACE