Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-07
ENGINEERS ON STRIKE
Chicago Packing Houses in
Bad Straits.
OLD MEN SUBSTITUTED
TROUBLE IS OVER QUESTION OF
WAGES.
One Hotel Gets Ahead Of the Laundry
Workers-General Strike
Situation.
OLD MEN SUBSTITUTED

CHICAGO, May 7-Business at the pack
fng houses is being conducted under diff
culties today owing to the strike of sta
tionary engineers which was called with
out warning yesterday afternoon. Ex-en-
gineers, who are now occupying higher
positions, have been called upon to take
che places of the regular men In some In
stances and by one expedient or another
all of the eight concerns that refused to
sign the scale demanded by the strikers
are keeping their plants in operation pend
ing decision upon a plan Of action
The packers declare the new demand
an eight hour day and 37H cents an hour
to be a violation of an agreement entered
into several weeks ago on an award OF 81
cents hour and ten-hour day maze
by board of arbitration. whose members
were picked from men selected by the en-
gineers.
The engineers assert that the cause Of the
strike was the refusal of the packers to
pay the scale of wages from the time liked
by the arbitrators. Later. it is admitted.
upon threat by the engineers to strike
on account of the discharge of union men
and the employment of others, the terms
of the agreement were fully complied with.
The strike was then called on the grounds
of discrimination against the union.
Fooled the Laundry Strikers.
There is one hotel in Chicago today which
in spite of the fact that strikers assert no
washing is being done.
The manager of the hostelry chartered
a tug loaded it down with a weeks wash
and started 1t northward with instruc-
tions to bring back the cargo cleaned and
lroned, even if 1t were necessary to go to
Canada. The lake captain steamed into
kenoSha, Wis, and sent word to the laun--
dry that there was package OF soiled
clothes which he wished done up in
hurry.
The proprietor of the laundry was dunn
founded when his driver brought back sew
eral loads of clothes, but the work was
done quickly. When 1t was delivered no
tihcation was made that no more work
would be accepted from Chicago.
Subway Workmen Stay Out.
NEW YORK May 7.-Instead Of return
ing to work in the subway today the MEM
bers of the Rockmen's and Excavators'
Union carried into effect a decision reached
at meetings last night to get further infor-
nation before resuming work.
In addition to the subway men, there are
15,0OO Italians employed by contractors
throughout the city who are also on strike,
and 1T is the opposition of these strikers to
the subway men settling their differences
before the troubles of the whole body of
striking Italians are settled that has kept
the subway workers in doubt as to what
to do.
Situation at Montreal.
MONTREAL, May THE strike situation
here today is practically unchanged. The
officers of the striking longshoremen an
nounce that the Liverpool, longshOremen
have cabled that they will refuse to ham
die any goods loaded here by non-union
men. The Liverpool people, the strikers
here claim. are affiliated with the British
labor congress.
The Canadian Pacific railroad will con-
tinue to load and unload Its vessels at
Three Rivers. about midway between here
and Quebec, only bringing the boats up