Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-06
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TRIGG CO.'S CREDITORS ARE NOW
IN NEW YORK.
MEN LOOKING FOR WORK.
Some Have Deem Taken ON at the
NEWPORT News Yards Decision
Reached Not 10 File any Labor
Liens at Present.

The affairs of the W: R. Trigg Conn
pany are still unsettled. and Will continue
SO until after " endnesday, when Mr.
Lisburn T. Myers. the receiver for the
company. and its vice president, returns
from New York. whittier he has gone
with the committee OF local creditors to
confer with the Northern creditors with
a view to the reorganization of the COM
pany.
This meeting of committees of credi-
tors will be held Wednesday at the Wal
dorf-Astoria, and substantial results In
Guiding the continuance without delay of
the. plant are confidently hoped for.
Meanwhile work has not been resumed
at the plant. either on the revenue cut
ter Mona wk, or. the other vessels build
Ing there. Authority has not yet been
OF work. 1t is hoped that the latter part
Of this week will see the plant in opera
ton.
SCATTER FOR WORK.
Meanwhile. the employees, who number
in the aggregate about 1.500 men are scat.
tering In all directions In search of work,
and many, in order to get away. are sac
rificing their time cards to spectators
at discount Of from ten to twenty per
cent Those who are disposing of their
time allowance are generally men who de-
sire to go elsewhere. or those who, hav-
ing families on their hands. or no money
saved. are compelled to raise money for
their Subsistence or for travelling ex-
penses. Reports from Newport News are
to the effect that certain former en-
ployees of the Trigg yard are in that city
endeavoring to sell their time at so
cents on the dollar. and even less.
It is reported that some Of the men
who applied to the Newport News yard
al tho how of
be given employment for the present
and not until it was known what the
Trigg yard was going to do. and when 1t
would resume. The report from Newport
News. already referred to, does not bear
out this statement, saying that some have
secured work there. Here is the state
ment sent from Newport News last night:
Over 100 skilled men from the Trigg
ship yard at Richmond arrived here to-
day. seeking employment al the ship yard.
Some of them were successful. and others
may have to wait few days. 1t is un-
derstood that large number of mechan-
les. who are still in Richmond waiting
for their money, will head this way as
soon as they can leave. The men here
are anxious to sell their time" for one
half or even less. of what is coming to
them. Some of them offered hotel man
to-day $50 orders for SO. 1t Is said the
SdiOOH men VI IllCH.IlOtlu are CdoliiIS oil
such orders, and expect to reap har-
vest at the expense of the unfortunate
workingmen.
NO CLAIMS HAVE BEEN FILED;
A committee from the employees Of the
Trigg Company, headed by Mr. z. a.
with Mr.. Hill Montague their counsel.
since Saturday night, when the commit
tee. embracing a representative from
each Of the various dspartme e1ts, was as
their counsel and not DESTROYS Of use
lessly harrassing the company and the
receiver. the men have decided to hold
n avg rhey are
that they have rnsarly ninety DAYS;
in which to tile claims and aftidavits IN
the. Chancery Court. and that there IS
posed to accept the situation philoso-
phically and await further Developments.
Under the statute. their eli: inns are per-
claims and file-+them with afidavits at
what they deem the proper time. The
money cannot be paid the men before an
order from the Court authorizing the re-
ceiver so to do has been issued.
The amount of money due employees
by the company is variously estlma ted,
and many of the estimates are said by
conservative me n to be somewhat eXag-
gerated. The average payroll is about
$4,000 a week. and the men are due just
eight days pay. All the employees are
not clamoring for their pay. number OF
them awaiting the result patiently and
quietly, confident that they will receive
all that is due them as soon as it can be
legally paid out. The amount is IN the
not likely quite reach that figure. OF
course, 1t Is 2 serious deprivation for
many to be without money at this sea
future here Under these conditions .ne
departure Of many of the mechanics to
Newport News and to. their former
homes, where they can live at less ex-
nense in the period of enforced lu,eness.
is but natural In the event of the early
resumption of the plant it will not be
difficult to get most of the men BACK.