The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-18

Items Concerning Strikes and DOings
of Organized workfngmen.

The Toledo Carriage Association and the
Team Drivers and Keepers Union, No. 20,
at meeting Tuesday ratified the terms
OF the teamsters' strike settlement agreed
upon by their respective committees Mon
day night.
An eight-hour day and wage schedule
of 40 cents per hour will prevail with all
the carpenters in the building trades of
means that the threatened strike of the
builders union has been averted.
Commissioner Carroll d. Wright, recorder
of the coal strike commission. said on Tues
day that the work of the commission was
nearly concluded. The finishing touches
are being put on the report, and IL will be
placed in the hands of the printer in few
days.
gone to Raleigh county, West Virginia,
with warrants for the arrest of the men re-
Gently indicted by the federal grand jury
is sure to follow any attempt he makes to
execute the process of the court.
The sheet metal workers strike at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, was officially declared
off Tuesday The strikers have been idle
a great victory for them. They will receive
s2.75 day as minimum rate of pay, which
is an increase of so cents day.
The operators of the Fifth Ohio sub
district held conference at Wheeling, w.
Va, Tuesday regarding the miners ulti-
matum for an outside wage scale. Although
they refuse to give what decision was ar,
rived at. it Is said that the operators will
refuse the demand, which means strike of
5000 miners April ].
Twelve hundred employees of the Chicago
Shipbuilding Company Will resume work
Thursday after strike lasting more than
six weeks. They won a fight to-day for
a nine-hour day and 10 per cent. increase
of wages after June /. The company, rep
resented by President Brown and the di-
rectors, held a conference with the execu-
tive board of the Chicago Federation of
Labor which resulted in a settlement Of the
trouble rather Unexpectedly.
Governor Peabody of Colorado, has is
sued an order recalling the troops who
were ordered to Colorado City March on
account of the smelter mems strike. Two
days ago the Governor sent his private
secretary to Colorado City to investigate
the situation, and 1T is upon his recon-
mendation that the troops are ordered
troops were made by a number of promi-
nent men of Colorado Springs and Colorado
City, but the Governor stated he believed
all danger Of trouble is over.
The executive committee of the Boiler
Makers Union, at New York, Tuesday
night called of all sympathetic strikes
ordered as result Of the strike in the
Townsend-Downey Shipbuilding Company.
commended by the Civic Federation as the
first step in the direction of arbitration of
the differences between the boiler makers
| and the company. This arrangement does
and machinists. members of the Marine
Trades Council, who went on a sympathetic
strike to help the boiler makers in that
yard.
After reaching what was believed to be
an agreement to arbitPate it's differences
| with the Central Supply Association, Of
| Chicago, the Journsymen Supply Clerks
Union suddenly changed it's mind tonight
| and decided to go on strike for the en-
| forcement Of its demands for a nine-hour
day and an increase of 10 per cent. in
4 4-,lr2
| effect to-day, will affect a dozen of the
largest firms dealing in Plumbing, steam
httlne and sanitary supplies and about 600
| OF their employees. The strike may inter-
fere serious with building operations
A conference between Col Lucien F. Bur-
| pee, counsel for the Connecticut Lighting
| and Railway Company, and W. ID. Mahon,
of Detroit. president of the International
| Association of Street-railway Employees,
and Daniel l.. Ditworth, chairman of the
executive board, in an effort to settle the
! Waterbury trolley strike. resulted in a re-
| the local committee of the strikers for any
| purpose. Ii was agreed, however. that
Colonel Burpee should undertake to arrange
| New York. at which the national officers
/ mentioned above should be heard.
| A crisis has been created in the cotton
| manufacturing industry at Lowell by the
refusal of the mill agents to grant 10 per
The situation there is being closely watched
| by treasurers and directors of many other
| mills, whose affairs. well as those OF
| many of the Lowell corporations. are reg
| ulated from Boston. The feeling prevails
| that a strike in the seven corporations of
| Lowell is almost sure TO be ordered by the
unions. The Lowell Textile Council asked
| for conference with the agents. The lat
| ter acceded to the request and named next
Thursday as the time for the meeting.
| That marked progress was made Tuesday
| in the conference between members of the
| joint grievance committee representing en-
| ployes of the New York, New Haven e
| Hartford Railroad Company and a commit
| tee appointed by the board Of directors was
| distinctly felt after the meeting was con-
| Guided The meeting was in the office OF
President John NJ Hall and lasted three
| hours. An executive session of the griev-
| ance committee was then held. The matter
| will be discussed again Wednesday Nc
definite statement could be obtained from
the officials TO what done at the
| mating