Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-07-24
SETTLEMENT effected SATURDAY
FALLS THROUGH THiS MORNING.
Meeting Of Strikers Yesterday Afterno Re.
pudiated the Agreement Made By Their
Committee on Saturday. Employees Must
Speak and Understand English Language
At West & Sl>is Mat.

speak ana Un0eFstan0 EhghSA Language
At West & Sl,de Mai.
The strike o. the yardmen at the saw |
mills appeared to be all settled Saturday |
afternoon, by the mill men agreeing to
pay $500 day OIL and after August l.
This arrang was declared satisfac.
tory by the committee appointed by the
strikers, and the mills arranged to start
up this morning, which they did with
the exception OF Anderson 4 Middleton,
and the West & Slade mills, although the
latter operated one side of the mill.
Those two mills employ the greatest
number Of yardmen, a majority Of whom
are Firms, unable to speak the English
language. At seven o'clock this morning
crowds of the strikers assembled at those
two mills. each of which had posted
notices that the ~ 90 scale would 90 into
effect August l, but, while majority
appeared desirous to 60 to work accord.
ing to the agreement of Saturday, a few
agitators harangued them in the Finnish
language, and, at the West 4 Slade mill
demanded the 500 scale to begin at
once. To this Manager Mack replied,
"ali right. but" said he, II want men
who can epeak the English language"
This was facer. Not one in ten OF the
crowd could fill the bill. Manager Mack
explained that he could not pay 500 a
day for men who required the services Of
an inter prefer, and said that hereafter a
knowledge OF the American language
would be a necessary qualification for
employment at that mill.
After this ultimatum the crowd march.
ed to the Anderson 4 Middleton mill,
and asked that they be given until noon
to decide whether or not to go to work,
saying they would hold meeting at 10
O'Clock to determine. It was readily to
be seeh that majority Of this crowd
wante to 60 to work. but were intimd.
ated by q handful Of self constituted
leaders. Manager Middleton acceeded
to this request, but took occasion to in.
form the men that after that he was going
to operate the mill regardless OF them, if
he had to call upon the author tiles to
protect such men as may be brought in.
| All the mills in the city are running,
except the West & Slade and the Ander-
son 4 Middleton. The Dryden & Leitch
mill is making repairs and will start up
tomorrow. All the mill companies are
determined to manage their own busi-
ness in their own wav. and not to permit
the dictation Of handful of irrespon-
sible agitators, ignorant Of the country
and it's language, and it is quite probable
that the action of Manager Mack in in.
sisting upon knowledge of the language
will be adopted by the other concerns.
The mill men only agreed to the re.
adoption Of the 1903 scale SATURDAY. after
strenuous meeting with the logging
operators, in which the latter were pur.
suaded to reduce logs 25 cent per M tenn.
porarily pending better freight situa-
ton. At this meeting the Poison Logging
Co and the o. K. Logging Co. announced
their readiness to close their camps until
Sept. l, and possible to January l, next.
AZ these two firms put about 800 900 feet
OF logs day into tidewater, their stop.
page would necessitate the closing of most
OF the mills on the harbor. 1t was be.
cause the loggers agreed to this reduction
that the mills were anxious to start up
this morning, as they agreed at the meet.
ing to do. in the belief that the agree
ment just made with the yardmen had
settled the labor trouble.
STRIKE ENDED.
A meeting was held in Finn's hall by
the strikers this morning for two hours.
1t w's plain from the start that large
majority wanted to resume work, but an
active minority seemed disposed to pro
long the strike in order TO accomplish
impossbilites and remedy all exist.
ing economic evils off hand. The
men of families contended that the strike
had accomplished all they welt out for,
and the care of their dependents demand.
ed their immediate return to work. After
a thorough discussion it was decided to
resume work tomorrow morning, and a
committee was appointed 10 go notify the
mills and the strike may be said to be q
closed incident.
While the strike NAV be said to nave
been peaceable, good many threats
were made by the strikers, and the
authorities we're in position all the time
to protect life and property. Sheriff
Graham was on the ground. with depu.
ties selected to be sworn in at
moments notice, and Marshal Carter
had number Of special deputies ready