The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-13
BINDERY GIRLS SAY
THE STRIKE IS OFF
They viii Report to Their
Former Employers and Ask
for Their Old Positions.

The strike of the ST. Paul bindery
girls has been declared off.
This morning the girls will report to
their former employers and apply for
their old positions. The employers will
be asked to allow the strikers to re-
turn in a body, but if the request is
refused the girls will make individual
applications for their former positions
All girls unfortunate enough to be de-
MED work will be cared for by the
girls union until they return to work
IN some bindery or secure other en-
ployment No attempt will be made
TO secure recognition Of the union
This action was decided upon at
the meeting of the striking members
of local union No. 40, held yesterday
afternoon. Though defeated, the girls
maintain that they were successful in
making conditional surrender. Though
the recognition of their union is de-
MED they will, according to their claim
return to work under a new and better
scale of wages.
Negotiations looking toward the re
turn of the girls to work in body
were begun yesterday morning. An Off
Ger Of the girls union, accompanied
by an officer of the male binders union,
who was acting in his capacity as an
officer of the international union, met
Walter J. Driscoll, of the Pioneer Press
bindery. representing the Typothetae
or employing binders.
AS the union reported, Mr.. Driscoll
was asked whether, considering that
the new scale published by the Typo
thetae was satisfactory to the union,
the girls might return to work in a
body as they had gone out. He re-
piled that he didn't care whether they
came back in a body or otherwise:
their applications would be considered
individually.
Questioned whether the Typothetae
would retain all the new non-union
girls, he said that that would naturally
depend upon the work they did. But
he added that the employers would
not discriminate against either union
or nom union girls.
The committee then replied that the
answ : of the Typothetae would be
considered promptly at a meeting Of
the girls union.
At Collins bindery similar COM
mittee from the girls union was told
that all the strikers from that bindery
could return in a body The girls
formerly employed at Collins will,
therefore, go back to work this morn
ing.
Mr.. DrfscolI said last evening: "There
are e1gnty-thfee girls working in the
st. Paul binderies now Only nine of
them came in during the three weeks
of the strike ending last Saturday.
All the remaining seventy four have
been hired since last Monday Besides.
we have applications on file from 145
more girls, not including the union
girls. The McGill bindery has full
force, including one union man. The
Pioneer Press bindery has had some
union men right along and will take
In some non-union men tomorrow.
There will be no discrimination what
ever between the two classes"
Explanation was made last night by
representative of the male binders
union that the officer of that union
who accompanied the girls representa-
tive when she talked with Mr.. Dris-
coll, was acting solely in his capacity
as an officer Of the International
brotherhood of Binders. He happens
to be also an officer of the local male
binders union, but he did not repre-
sent his local union yesterday.