The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-19

Three hundred shippers, receiving clerks
and statesmen in twelve Of the large plumb
strike Wednesday for nine-hour day and
a Is per cent. increase in wages. All of
the concerns are members of the employ
ers' organization known as the Central
Supply Association.
Through the efforts of Joseph Bishop, sec
rotary of the Ohio State Board Of Arbitra-
ton, the strike of the Toledo teamsters has
been settled, and the men have returned to
recognize the union, TO employ none but
union teamsters, and not to discriminate
against unions. The strikers made slight
concessions.
vile, N. Y, and at Jamestown, N. Y, have
voted to strike unless the manufacturers
association increase their wages. The man.
ufacturers declared that under the present
conditions they cannot advance the wages
of the men, but will offer piece schedule.
strike would throw out of work nearly
two thousand persons
The cases of the miners indicted for re-
sisting arrest at Atkinsvile, w. Va, Feb.
q, were on Wednesday continued by Judge
Keller, of the Federal Court at Charleston,
until the regular term in June The con-
tinuance was on motion of counsel for the
defendants and the reason assigned was
that it would be impossible 10 secure the
attendance of the necessary witnesses at
this special term Of the court
Five hundred employees of the Buffalo
Dry-dock Company on strike and dou-
BILE the number may be out within the next
few days unless the question at Issue Is
settled. There is no question of wages in
volved. The men demand the reinState-
ment of a member of the union, who, IL Is
alleged, was discharged because he headed
a grievance committee. The Buffalo Dry
dock Company is branch Of the American
Shipbuilding Company.
The molders employed at the plant of the
Eastern Steel Company at Pottsville, Pa,
Wednesday night received notice of dis
missal. They had asked for an increase I'm
wages giving the company until next Sat
urday to comply with the demands. The
entire molding department is idle as a re-
suit of the companys action. Most of the
structural iron for the Pennsylvania Rail
road C,mpany's New York tunnel is to be
furnished by this plant.
The Pettibone colliery shut down Wednes-
day and 600 miners, laborers and slate pick
ers were informed there would be no work
until further notice. The colliery belongs
to the Delaware, Lackawanna e. Western
Coal Company and is one of the largest
in the Wilkesbarre region. The company
will at once begin to make long-needed re-
pairs and 20 fill the old workings with culm.
The engineers. firemen. carpenters and
pump runners will be the only persons to
remain at work.
sas City Southern Railway shops at Pitts
burg, Kan, started Wednesday with a
force of ninety nonunion men brought in
on a special train from the North. The
shops under an armed guard furnised by
the railway The strikers made no at
tempt to modest the new men. stockade
Is being built around the shops and
grounds, inside of which the new men will
sleep and eat in tents and boarding cars
Wednesday fifty guards walked abreast
around the shops, while three hundred rifles
were stacked UP inside the Enclosure
The national officers of the Iron Molders.
Union will to-day present a demand TO the
officers of the Stove Founders National De-
fensive Association for 10 per cent in
crease I'm the rate Of payment for molders
employed In stove foundries, TO take effect
April L conference of the officers of the
two aAociaticns will be held at Cincinnati
to-day. The iron molders union will be rep
resented by Martin Fox, the national pres
ident and Joseph Valentine, the national
vice president. The Manufacturers Asso-
citation. which is known as the Stove
Founders National Defensive Association.
will be represented at the conference by c.
IL. Castle, OF Quincy. ILL.,, president;
Thomas j. Hogan. secretary, and Lazard
Kahn, OF Hamilton. Harry Crippen, of Chi
cago, and ID. McAfee. of Quincy. Ill. IL is
believed that compromise Will be reached