Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-24
HIRE FLEET FOX PICKETS
Bridge OOmrsDy's Strikers Strive to Reach
No .unioniIts il Mi,-stream
ENJolNs HoULDERs FROM CALLING "sCAB'
Judge Issues SweepinE Injunction
Against Pennsylvania Union. RE-
straininE All Interference with
Men stiII mt work.

~PITTsBURG. March 23.-The American
Bridge company has not yet resumed work
on the wabash bridge with nonunion men
and quiet prevails in the vicinity.
The strikers have their headquarters in a
frame building near the American Bridge
company's south side plant and just below
is the houseboat which is quartering the
nonunion men. Cooks have been employed
and cots placed in the house for the strlk-
ers. They have also secured a number of
skifs and will make an effort to reach the
strike breakers aboard the boat.
The strikers are closely scrutinizlng every
movement Of the occupants Of the boat.
The Indictment weather was the reason
given by the company for its failure to
work today. The only work
done was the building Of a fence around
the works.
Enjoined From Calling "scab."
LANCASTER, Pa, March 23.-Judge
lands today filed a permanent injunction
Restraining the striking iron moulders from
interfering with the workmen OF the Mari
eta Casting company Of Marietta. The
Injunction reads:
All members and officers OF lodge No. 339
OF the Iron Moulders' union and all their
agents, servants and employees, as well as
all persons conspiring and continuing with
them and all other prisons whomsoever. are
hereby, pefpetually e%nioined and com
manded absolutely TO desist and refrain
from in any manner interfering with the
employees of the plaintiff and with any per-
or offer to enter its employ or to induce
any such person or persons to leave the
employment Of the Plaintiff. and also from
epithet TO persons passing along the streets
and going to or from the works Of the
May Tie Up L Roads.
NEW YORK. March 23.-By a practically
unanimous vote the newly organized Man
haitian elevated railroad employees tonight
refused to accept a compromise wage
schedule offered by the road for a settle
ment of their grievances.
The meeting continued all day, so as
to give all the men a chance TO vote.
The feeling against the proposed schedule
manifested itself from the first, because
there was no provision of reduction of
hours. The men want a nine-hour day or
as near a nine-hour day as the train runs
will permit.
One of the officials of the mems organiza-
tion said tonight:
We will insist on our demand. OF course,
In considering the advisability Of a strike
we VIII not lose sight OF the inconvenience
to the PUBLIC and we will go as far as
possible to have the matter settled by
arbtti alton. But we must have the nine
hour day and the wage scale we have asked
for.
Cotton Give support.
FALL RIVER, Mass, March 23.-The ex-
ecutive council Of the United Textile Work
ers of America today gave its unqualified
endorsement to the request CT the Lowell
operatives to enforce their demand for an
increase of 10 per cent in wages.
A similar endorsement was given the
operatives in the mills of the New England
Cotton Yarn company in New Bedford.
Taunton and this city, while the strike Of
spinners now in progress at Manville and
Woonsocket, r. l.. was also approved,
In order to support the strike in the lat
ter places, and in anticipation of those
which may take place at Lowell and In the
mills OF the New England Cotton Yarn
company. the executive council voted to
levy an assessment on the 10000 members
Of the textile union to cover the immediate
needs and for use as a defense fund.
Agree Not to Strike.
DERBY, Conn, March 2S.-Beginning to.
day A. H. & c.. B. Alling, one Of the
largest concerns manufacturing wooden un-
derwear In the country, enters into ar
agreement with the Textile Workers unior
by which wages are not to be reduced fol-
two years and employees are not to strike
for any reason or demand an increase IN
wages.
Photographers Stay at Work.
KANSAS CITY, March cat was denied
at the ofices OF the Kansas City Southern
today that any strike among the teleg,
|, raphers or trainmen was contemplated.
At labor headquarters the striking ma
chinists had no knowledge Of any contem
plated sympathy strike by telegraphers.
CHICAGO. March 23.-While twenty-five
concerns agreed to the demands of tn
: carriage and wagon builders today none o
the large manufacturers yielded, but ar
, hopeful thSt the union will accept an ole
OF arbitration. which. they claim. was re
? jected at Sundays meeting Of the union.