The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-01
RUBBER SHOP STRIKE.
GiEIs stiII Dstsrminsd-EnIhus
 Meeting Last Night.

Despite the fact that torty-nine of the rubber shop girls who went out on strike returned to work yesterday, the ardor of the other girls, nearly six hun dred in number. is not in the least dampened and there are at present ab- solutely no prospects of their returning to work until the company has made some concessions. if their present atti- tude is to be maintained.
 An exceptionally large and harmoni- ous meeting was held in St Patrick's s hall last night and there were evidences on every hand of the intention to re- main firm in their decision to stay out. It was arranged that pickets be posted and an effort made to have those girls leave who returned % work and thus prevent failure of the strike. The 1icketing will commence this morning and the pickets will be at their posts at 6 o'clock.
 Al the meeting last night the entire matter was thoroughly discussed and | considered, the principal address of the evening being delivered by Clarence E. Ackerstrom of Boston, secretary of the International union of Rubber Work CTS. MT. Ackerstrom will remain in the city for several days. He stated that the charter for the local union was now on its way here and that 1t would doubtless arrive in a few days, when further details of the organization could then be arranged. He urged the girls
 to stand together and remain out until aster there had been an amicable ad- iustment of the entire matter. This they resolved to do with a ringing Iyote.
 The simple demand of the striking girls is that fourteen pairs of shoes be considered a set instead of eighteen, as the company has demanded. This num-
 Der has been decreased to sixteen by the company and the girls state there has been talk of fifteen, but they are not
 willing to agree to this, and some of them are sorry that they ever offered
 to consider fourteen as set, saying that the work is hard enough and they have to work very rapidly to make liv- ing wages when twelve pairs are con- sidered a set. "--& Another meeting will be held in St. Patrick's hall this evening. and 1t Is the desire of the committee that all those interested be present. At the conclu- sion of the meeting last night tickets for the drawing which the girls propose having on September 21 were given out admit is certain that a large number of them will be disposed of. I
 Rev.. Father Russll, pastor of St. Pat rick's church, has reconsidered his de- cision end has announced to the sub committee of the strikers that he will act as mediator. During the conference Father Russell urged the committee to advise the girl strikers to return to work for three days and give the shoes, the making of which caused the strike, la trial, He said that if the girls would do this as a favor to him he would see the L. Candee company officials. Fa- ther Russells. proposal is similar to that mode by Superintendent Pearee at his first conference with the strikers. | It has been the talk among many of the striking girls that they ought to give the new shoes a trial and find ou how much wages they could earn in making them, but they have held back I owing to the outcries of some of the other girls who assume to be leaders in the strike movement. MT. Pearce said last night that no overtures looking to any arbitration measure had yet been made by the strikers to the company. He said that the new shoe was only very small item in the company's output. The girls who returned yesterday were not put to work on the new shoe and would not be to-day. In the opinion of MT. Pearce the strike will not last the week out.