Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13
FORM OF. AGREEMENT
SETTLING STRIKE OF CARRIAGE
AND WAGON MAKERS.
Invitation to Masters Association to
Engage in Conference-Letter
From President Brinkman.

A matter that is said to be of absorbing
interest to union labor and the organiza-
lions of employers in the District is re-
cent decision reached by Mr.. John H.
Brinkman, president of the Central Labor
Union, who is managing the strike now of
the carriage and wagon workers of the
District of Columbia, looking to a confer
ence with their former employees for the
purpose of settling the differences. Wash
ington Local No. Y, the members of which
have been on strike since May Z last, have
accordingly sent an invitation to the mas
ters' association to meet them in confer
ence with that object in view. In Septem-
Der last a bill was filed in the District Su-
preme Court by the masters association
praying for an injunction similar to that
issued against the printers 1t is under
stood that many persons who are members
of organized labor, as well as some bust
ness men, have been advised that there are
members of the masters association who
desire conference, in order that the strike
may be brought to a close and business re-
sumed without court proceedings. and that
1t was the duty of the local union to ex-
tend an invitation to the masters associa-
ton inviting it's members to conference.
RECOGNIZING the fact that whatever trans
pired in conference might be used by either
one side or the other in the equity suit now
pending, the local had it's attorney prepare
an agreement as a protection to both sides
to the controversy.
Substance of Agreement.
The agreement recites that 1.-The parties
to the equity suit will not use or attempt
to use, or permit to be used, any records,
documents or testify to or permit anybody
to testify to any of the provisions or any
of the words spoken or actions OF any OF
the parties hereto, done or said, during the
said conferences in the equity suit now
pending, or any other suit that may here
after be commenced by either of the parties
hereto, or by either of the parties to the
equity suit now pending, in respect to the
matters to be discussed and considered in
the conferences aforesaid, said CONFER
ences, it being expressly understood and
agreed between the parties hereto, for
themselves and the parties to the said
equity suit, being held under the protection
, of compromise, with respect not only to
the equity suit now pending, as aforesaid,
but any suit at law or in equity that may
hereinafter be instituted in respect to the
strike now in progress on the part of the
carriage and wagon workers OF the District
of Columbia.
Under date of January II, 1907. letter
was mailed to the secretary of the Carriage
and Wagon Builders Association of Wash
| ington, D. c.. Mr.. ]. Edwin Lawton, ex-
| tending an invitation to meet the union in
| conference, contingent upon the signing Of
| the agreement.
| Compelled to Take Step.
"The local was compelled to take this
STEP" President Brinkman explained, for
| fear that the general public as we'll as the
various labor organizations of the District
would be led to believe that the local union
was not doing all in its power to effect a
settlement which would ALLEVIATE from it
| the support that 1t now receives both NOR
ally and financially. The claim is made that
| in the event the bosses refuse to sign the
| agreement upon which the invitation is
made contingent, 1t will mean that those of
| their members who have led people to be-
| lieve they desired a conference, that 1t was