Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-06
The Big Laundry Strike and
Cooks and Walters Strike
Are Settled
INDUSTRIAL PEACE PROBABLE
Labor Settlements Are Numerous in the
Windy City and Period of compar-
alive Freedom from the Unrest That
Has Prevailed Seems to Be As
sured.

/ Chicago, June 6.-Industrial peace
appeared on Chicago's clouded horizon
yesterday 1t was day of labor settle
ments. Strikes of laundry workers and
of cooks and walters in a number oil
leading hotels, which were causing in
convenience TO thousands of citizens
and heavy financial losses to proprie-
tors, were called off. The employees re-
turned to work, and the differences are
20 be adjusted by arbitration.
Laundry owners signed contracts
| with their drivers and inside workers
| and the strike, which has been in prog
ress five weeks and one day, is settled
The laundries will open for business on
Monday. The strike has cost the 5000
| employees about s25o,000 in loss OF
wages, while The proprietors have los,
an equal sum in maintaining theii
plants while not in operation.
Armature winders and electricians OF
| the metropolitan Elevated railroad
who have been on a strike for three
weeks, rendering large number OF
cars useless, made a pace pact with
the company. in which their full de-
mands were acceded TO. They secure a
nine-hour day, with time and one-hal1
! for overtime. The carpenters and other
employees who were discharged for re-
fusing to take the places OF the strik-
ers are to be reinstated and paid full
| wages for the time they have been off
work.
| Atho the truce in the walters strike
yesterday includes only the hotels, the
restaurant owners are to follow the
same policy as the hotel men, and i;
| is expected that the war in that line
will also terminate today.
! Only two strikes of walters Were
called during the day, at the Mode
restaurant on Fifth avenue and Hig-
gins at SiXty-third street and Mad'-
son avenue. They were of minor im-
portance, however, and have but little
effect on the general situation, which is
clearer than it has been for several
weeks. In fact, should the restaurant
keepers make peace today, as is eX-
rected. it will leave Chicago without 2
strike of any consequence in its limits
All of the settlements made yesterday
!
tho the union leaders claim that in
every instance they had the better OF
the argument. The cooks and walters
who have persistently refused to treat
with their employers as On association
relented little after President Schardt
OF the Chicago Federation of Labor
made strong argument against their
position in their meeting yesterday.
| They finally consented to meet with
a committee of employers representing
the leading hotels, and agreed to take
the wage question up in joint confer
cnce. The employers did not appear as
members of the Hotel Keepers Asso-
Eciation, but as individuals, altho they
may represent any number of hostelries
that come under the sane class. 1t is
equivalent to dealing with the associa-
ton, except in name.
| In the meantime. while the differ
ences are being finally settled in Join;
committee, all the men on strike re-
turned to work without discrimination
and the employers agreed that should
extra help be required before an agree
ment is reached such help shall be hired
thru the union.