The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-30
.GOMPERS IS ASKED.
Labor Federation Leader Invited to
Minneapolis by Striking Mill
Employees.
Financial Aid Encourages Strikers
but Employers Say Twill Not
Affect Strike.

Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has been
appealed to by President John M. Finley
Of the striking mill employees and his
| presence In Minneapolis in the near fu-
ture is confidently expected by the men
J on strike.
Originally it was Mr.. Finley's plan to
have Mr.. Gompers address mass meet
| ing here on the same night that d. M.
Parry, president Of the National Manu-
| facturers' association, addressed a meet
| ing of twin city business men. He has
learned, however, that there is no GER
| tainty about Mr.. Parry's coming and that
| no date for his appearance here has been
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Mr.. Gompers, however, is to- come any
| way, says Mr.. Finley, who. in a letter
| yesterday, set forth the strikers case and
asked Mr.. Gornpers to come out here and
| use his good offices to settle the strike.
The mill managers take little interest In
Gompers proposed visit and say it can
| not affect the strike in any way.
| a great change has come over the
strikers this morning as the result Of the
decision Of the executive committee of
the State Federation of Labor last night
to raise 100000 to help the strikers.
| At the strikers meeting this morning
| the pressmen's union sent up $50 with
the information that more was coming.
One of the two local sWitchmen's unions
sent word that it had $500 in its treas
ury awaiting the call of the strikers and
! the machinists' union announced that it
had $3.50. These offers Mr.. Finley says,
result In part from the generosity which
! the mill employees union has always
shown when any other union was in
| trouble.
Mills Continue Grinding.
The Federation can raise 100000 and
more If 1t wants to- said a prominent
miller this morning, but 1t will have
no effect on the strike; the mills will con-
tinue to grind just as they always have
The mills which were grinding yester-
day We're at 1t again to-day and some of
them ground all night. Superintendent
Harding of the Washburn- Crosby mills
said that the mills running-the east side
of A. all of B, the old side Of G and all
OF E-would turn out about 5000 barrels
OF. nour to-day. It was stated at the
Pillsbury B mill this morning that with
the Plllsbury A 1t would turn out about
! 5000 barrels. Altogether the output OF
the mills will probably be about a. 900
! barrels to-day. More men are being
taken an at all the mills
| Ihe official statements of the railroads
show that the Washburn- Crosby com
pany sent out forty carloads of flour
Yesterday, the Pillsbury w ashburn thirty,
and the Northwestern Consolidated COM
pany eight. This is about a third Of the
normal shipment.
G. G.. 7ovey Delayed.
The strikers continue to use orderly
tactics. Evidently thinking they were
talking to an employee, the pickets stopped
| Charles c. Bovey's carriage as he was
leaving the mills last night and before
he could convince them that he was but
humble mill owner, he had been de-
layed SO long that he missed the last
train for Minnetonka