Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-05
DECIDE TO QUIT STRIKE
NEW YORK BUTCHERS VOTE TO
RETURN TO WORK.
Prospect of Tie-Up on Elevated Lessen
ed-No Show Of Peace at
Fall Rover.

A dispatch from New York last night
says: The union butchers Of New York and
vicinity have declared the strike against the
beef trust at an end. All men for whom
places can be found will return to work
Tuesday morning.
The decision was reached through ref
erendum vote taken yesterday during the
afternoon and evening. The thirteen locals
in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Jersey City and
adjacent points, numbering $500 men. neld
meetings and the voting was finished late
at night. AS soon as the vote was counted
the result was communicated to the execu-
tive committee Of the unions, and the order
was at once sent out for every man 10
report for work Tuesday.
A dispatch from Chicago last night says
The reutrn to work of the $500 strikers IN
New York city will have no material Ell
feet upon the general situation In the STOCK
yards strike, according to President Donneliy
of the butchers union. In an address TINS
afternoon before an audience composed OF
5000 strikers and their friends Mr.. Don.
nelly declared that despite the desertloh "
the New York members of the union ne
would make no change in his plans to tie
up the meat industry of the country thls
week. .-,,,
who are said to have voted to desert US,
said Mr. Donnelly, was not entirely I'M
looked for. Their grievances were not as
great as ours, as they quit work merely III
sympathy with the strike of the western
members of the butchers union. Before
next Saturday night 1 expect there Will pc
fully $4,000 more workmen involved IN lne
struggle and the product or the new ioih
plants will not break the tie-up planned 1or
this week.
ut has been predicted by many that
the strike would be called of before TO-
day but we are sun IN me hs s rug te aou
If / called the strike off. You empowered
me to start it and you will nave 10 m
struct me by a general vote to end IL. Lel
no one be discouraged if the fight seems 10
drag along. We will be all the stronger ana
will secure a better settlement If we stay
out for seven or eight weeks longer:
AS the time approaches for opening IN. tne
subway the prospect of a te-up on the
elevated road grows more and more re-
mote. ox,,,9
day and night to make ready for the op
Grafton of the underground roaQf' Lass
night fifteen experienced motormen' lot
merly engine drivers on steam railroads.
who have been working on suburban trol,
lev lines were sent over the SUBWAY roau
from 96th street southwark. ,
The union leaders were apprlsed or all
happenings through their lookouts Two
secret conferences were held by the local
and the national leaders of the men yes,
terday. At the conclusion OF the SecoIi i,
conference a message was sent to Frank
Hedley, general superintendent or the IN
terborough company, the only one OF the
railroad officials who was in town yester-
day, asking for another conference tooay;
In this message the national leaders sald
they felt impelled to ask for a further con-
ference, although they did not recede from
their original demands for a nine-hour day
and $3.50 wages for motormen on the SUD-
way.
There are evidences of friction between
the Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees and the
two brotherhoods of engine drivers and
firemen 1t was learned from men who
had been accepted by the 1nterborough
company that at least fifteen members of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
have applied for positions as motormen IN
the subway. They say they have lost their
positions on various steam railroads for
petty infractions of the stringent rules
that obtain there and they are forced to
do something or face hard winter with
no guaranteed income.
These men say they realize that the loco
motive wage scale is $3.50 a day. but they |
do not regard the subway motor work as
the same as driving an engine on steam
roads They say the subway work Is akin
to surface railway work and that 81 day
is better than starvation.
Seventh Week of Fall River Strike.
A dispatch from Fall River, Mass. last
night says: Without concessions from
either side, and with no apparent prospect
of settlement, the strike of nearly 260OO
textile operatives today entered upon its
seventh week. Since the second day of the
strike not a wheel has turned at any of
the factories against which the strike was
declared.
Frequent contributions are received for
the benefit of the strikers. both union and
union. The exodus of opera tives from
this city continues, many of the French
Canadians returning to their former homes
in Quebec, while others have left the city
in the hope of finding employment at tex
tile mills in other states.