The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
WOULDN'T Sign Up
GLASS WORKERS STRUCK
Progress Of Six Strikes Now Going on
in Minneapolis-Labor to Fight
Judge Cray's Decision.

in MinneapoIis-Labor to Fight
Judge Cray's Decision.
Mimi neapolis, Mimi, July 30t-On
Monday morning two hundred glass
| workers of this city struck for nine
hour day at the same rate of wages
| they were being paid for ten hours.
The strike was unexpected. All the
glass companies Of the city except the
| Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, Fore
| man. Ford & Company and Ford Bros.
| were working their men only nine
hours a day; but there was neither a
verban nor written agreement that
these hours would prevail for any
specific length Of time. The Glass
Workers union decided to submit the
scale for signatures, and was met with
refusal. Thereupon they struck The
prospects are that the fight will be a
stubborn one. Frank w. Forman has
said: 1.-THE strikers will go hungry be-
fore we do.''
There are now six strikes on In this
city, namely: The telephone girls,
Cabinetmakers, Stone Quarrymen, Put
ty Glaciers, Electrical Workers, Glass
Workers and partial strike Of the
tatlors. All told, about six hundred
workingmen and women are out.
In all probability the telephone girls
have lost. They were not thoroughly
organized to begin with. Only a mi
nority of the girls employed by the
company belong to the union. Hence,
while they succeeded in handicapping
the company, they did not cripple it to
the extent that they could force it to
come to terms. The company was able
in a few days to fill the places Of the
girls and then, Of course, refused to
treat with them. The State Federation
Council having refused to sanction the
strike, it was lost.
Practically all the striking cabinet
makers are at work, thanks to the
energy of Business Agent Walquist
In this case the Master Builders are
the ones who are suffering.
The Putty Glaciers have been on a
strike now for, nearly three months.
Their hopes Of success depend very
largely on whether or not the Glass
Workers win their strike.
The striking Stone Quarrymen are
waiting to hear from President Com
pers and the Executive Council Of the
American Federation of Labor State
organizer j. H. Carver has referred
the whole matter to Washington for
disposition and if the national organ
ization will take a hand in the con-
test, the Stone Quarrymen may win
out.
b. The. Build ding. Trades. Council has de
ecfded appea ne dec isionss;o1f
Judge Cray, Of this city in granting
the recent injunction against them, are
spending sleepless nights in devising
means to finish their contracts with
out the aid of their union. Some of the
buildings are at a complete standstilll
as non-unioD electrical workers are
not plentiful in this neck of the woods
ana those who do venture up here find
the atmosphere SO uncongenial that
they soon take their departure
The Building Trades Council has de-
clded to appeal from the decision of
Judge Cray, Of this city, in granting the
recent injunction against the Council
ana the Electrical Workers Union, and
the executive committee has been in
structed to secure the services of the
ablest legal counsel in the city, in Or
der that it may be determined bv the
highest authority in Minnesota if an
an injunction so sweeping and so dras-
tic as to leave the working man no
rights at all. is good law" So reads
the motion to throw open the Building
council exchequer for the purpose of
employing legal counsel.
The State Federation Council has
also taken the matter in hand and will
assist financially. A telegram was sent
TO Clarence S. Darrow, of Chicago. on
the day he was married, asking him if
ne would carry up the case witrout
then assigning the real reason, Mr..
Darrow declined by wire on the
ground that he was going to Europe
immediately.
The initial steps toward the forma-
t1on of a state organization of .lleir
crafts have been taken by the District
Council Of the Painters, Decorators and
Paperhangers Of this section. A call
has just been issued requesting all
painters, decorators and paper hangers
throughout the state to- be present
during fair week for the purpose of ef-
fecttng ~ a permanent organization
adopting a constitution and bylaws
and electing officers.
SHORT OF SAILORS.