The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-05-23
0'NE|LL MAKES
HIMSELF FAMOUS
MONTREAL HERALD PRAISES THE
BIG 'LoNGsHoREMAN.
WAS THE CENTRAL FIGURE
And Came Out Of Trouble With COL
ors FIying-Wil| Remain in Mont
real as Business Agent.

0Nelll Will be pleased to learn Inat
he came out Of the 1Ongshoremen's
strike at Montreal with colors flying.
His jealous minded rivals, who have
not even stopped at character assas-
sination, may now have another Wres-
tie with the green n-eyed monster.
The following clippings from the
Montreal Herald may be of interest to
the readers Of the Labor World, as 1t
IN indeed pleasing to the editor:
1.-The strike of 1ongshoremen was
settled at 1920 o'clock this morning.
The news flashed from the Bonse-
cours hall, where a mass meeting Of
strikers was in progress. 1t spread
rapidly. In half an hour the news
was the sole topic Of discussion upon
the streets. For a time there was a
doubt as to it's truth. A few minutes
more and a horde of scurrying news
boys laden with Strike Over" extras,
and yelling themselves hoarse, thrust
the answer to the question into a
hundred eager hands.
Men stopped on the curb, scanned
the still damp papers, and felt salts
fed. Business would boom again,
over.
Business men on their way down
town passed we'll known figures in the
shipping world wearing union buttons
in their coats and a seraphic express
sion of satisfaction on their faces.
They passed little gangs of long
shoremen hurryng to the wfnrves
where now nc bristling bayonets and
stern -visaged sentries barred their
progress, and they knew that the great
strike which had been slowly throt-
Ting the business and commerce of
the city had ended at last.
And end it has-inally this time,
and with no immediate probability Of
a recrudescence.
After nearly five days of almost
continuous consulta ton, conference
and counter conference; hope, despair
and fresh hope, and deeper despair at
a. faeteny settle
ment was arrived at. Yesterday from
noon till midnight men sacrificed their
day of rest and struggled with the
problem.
To Sir Thomas Shaughnessy be-
longs in a great measure the credit of
finally bringing the strike to an end.
On Saturday night the struggle to fin
ish the strike that ended with success
this morning commenced. In the Of
flee of Mr.. Robert Bickerdike the
shipping men were in session, while
down in Bonsecours Hall the strikers
were gathered in mass meeting. The
question Of union buttons and the la
III
Mr.. Arthur Hodgson went as ennis
sary from the shipping men to the
strikers He asked for a written de-
flnition, of their demands with regard
to buttons and the bureau. The ship
ping men would not agree.
Refer the button question to Arch
bishop Bruchesi, and We'll make some
arrangement about the bureau was
the message sent back to Bonsecours
Hall.
No was the answer sent back, and
things were as before.
On Sunday Sir Thomas Shaughnes-
sy turned all his boundless energy
loose upon the problem. This button
question was too trivial to risk the
future of Canada's metropolis on. Sc
he told Mr.. Robert Bickerdike.
Four hours these two gentlemen
were in conference. Then Sir Thomas
put his hand to the compilation OF
agreements. The same night the re.
suit of his labor was presented to the
shipping men. Sir Thomas also com.
municated his views upon the trivial.
ty of some Of the points which had sc
far proved unsurpassab1e stumbling
~ olxr ho of tha e ID
new ocean line was threatened, In.
ternecine strife in the shipping worlt
was blossonning. That ugly flowe,
could not be allowed to blossom in tn,
fair field ct Canadian commerce. S,
it was killed before it had borne sin
gle bud.
TAl midnight the shipping men dis
cussed SIR Thomas shaughnessy
proposals. Then they decided that i
was acceptable.
Endorsed by the shipping men an
submitted acceptable" the ney
amended agreement was placed befor
the strikers this morning. First tn
committee representing the men de
eided that the new agreement was sat
isfactory. Them the men were aske
to decide. They decided unanimousl
In favor of acceptance.
The close of the fight was interest
ing. Everybody forgot everything ex
cept that the strike was over. En-
thusias~ \ ran riot.
Shipping men who have fought tn
nI:sbuttons tooth and nail, tore ther
from the coats of the 'longshoreme
and pinned them on their own. An
there was some handshaking done owe
the head Of this. Everyone from tn
grimest 'longshoreman to. the wealth
lest shtpowner was the best Of goo
fellows in the world. - .'
Arms worked like pump handle!
Well nanicured fingers in some Of <th
big shipping offices still struggle fror
tfeasvice-like grasp Of hands knotte
and scanned and 81 #toughened III th
a hardest toll I'm labors category
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