Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-01
LITTLE LABOR ROW
ON THIS MAY DAY
But a Small Number of Work
men Going Out.
STRIKE ON THE STEAMERS
Boilermakers in Boston Want an Ad-
vance in Wages.
CHICAGO ELECTRICIANS STRIKE
Drivers Go Out in Columbus, Ohio,
and Some Horseshoers Strike in
the City of Toledo.
Boilermakers in Boston Want an Ad-
vance in Wages.
CHICAGO ELECTRICIANS STRIKE

NEW YORK, May Inlay day found
the worklngmen in comparatively few of
the trades In this city ready to assert any
demands for increased wages and, in con-
sequence, strikes were few. Chief interest
centered in the possibility of a strike to-
day of the first, second and third officers
or the coastwise steamers who have made
demands for increased wages Up to this
morning seven of the seventeen lines of
steamers having terminals in this city
had accepted the new schedule. Repre-
sentatives of the Department of Commerce
and Labor at Washington have been sent
to this city to try to avert the threatened
trouble.
The general manager of the consolidated
steamship lines owned by c. W. Morse
made compromise Offer but it was de-
clined by the representatives of the Off
GERS. At the offices of the Mallory line
1t was stated today that their officers had
not gone out, but there is a strike of
stevedores at both the Mallory and Ward
line docks
Negotiations are still in progress between
the officers and companies
Luther B. Dow. general manager of the
American Association of Masters Mates
and Pilots. said today that none of the
first. second and third officers of the steam
ers belonging to the lines which refused
to advance wages would return to their
duties until the advances were granted
As fast as other steamers of these lines
arrive in port. he added. their officers
will refuse to continue their duties
Run to Southern Ports.
Most of the steamship lines affected by
the strike run steamers to southern ports
and New York and Boston. Capt. Dow said
that the first. second and third officers of
the Clyde. Mallory. Ward. Old Dominion
Savannah, New York and Porto Rico. RED
d. all of which operate steamers between
New York and routhern ports had left
the steamers which are now fr this port.
In addition. he said. the officers of the Met
ropolitan Line to Boston. the Maine Steam
ship Company. running {, Portland Maine.
and the Windsor line. operating between
Philadelphia and Boston and Providence,
had also left their posts i.-
Agreements were reached. he added. with
the Panama, Bull. Luckenbach and Bruins
wick lines. and the Merchants and Miners
Transportation Company of Baltimore, and
negotiations were in progress with the
Morgan line which belc:--, to the South
ern Pacific Company. Capt. Dow declared
that he expected the other companies TO
come to terms shortly.
Three Hundred Out.
On the lines of the Consolidated Steam-
ship Company he said, men were out.
The journeymen painters who have been
on strike for few weeks, demanding an
increase in wages for plain painting from
6. 80 to $500 per day and for decorative
painting from $500 to $3.50 per day, are
still out.
Hoped for Sympathetic Strikes.
They had hoped for sympathetic strikes
on the part of the building trades today
to help enforce their demands, but no
such move was made by the allied unions.
In Paterson. n. j.. LEGO journeymen car
penters went on a strike today for an in
crease in wages from $3.50 to 800 day.
The building operations in that city were
at a standstill.
Thirteen hundred carpenters in Newark.
". j.. struck today to enforce demand
for an increase In wages from An cents
to 80 cents per hour. All of these men
were employed by members of the Masters
Association. The demands of the men were
granted by independent employers, and 600
carpenters remained at work.
1,5OO on Strike in Boston.
BOSTON, Mass. May 1.-At least 100
workmen went on strike this morning.
II
fourteen boiermaking shops in Greater
Boston struck for 10 per cent wage in
crease from a scale that now ranges from
$3.50 TO $3.50. The boilermakers originally
asked the employers for 10 per cent wage
increase and an eight-hour work-day. The
Boilermaking Manufacturers Association
said that they could not afford to grant
more than IA per cent wage increase.
The 30 members of the Cement and
Asphalt Workers Union, including every
nf he in he 81 IN g nj
work this morning, not to resume until
the 1907 wage scale and working agreement
Is adjusted. The members of the Wood.
Wire and Metal Lathers Union were in
structed to quit this morning at every job
where the new wage rate established by
the union was not effective. Every union
carpenter in Boston was directed to quit
this morning on every job where the en-
ployers did not say that they would give
the new 432l cents an hour minimum
wages agreed upon between the Master
Carpenters Association and the Carpenters
District Council.
First Strike in Chicago.
CHICAGO May 1.-The first strike ush-
ering In May day in Chicago was called
yesterday on the new plant of the Western
Electric Company, located at Hawthorne.
IL was sympathetic in nature. Because of
a grievance of the electricians union
against the company, several hundred
building mechanics laid down their too.s
and walked out, under orders from the
Associated Building Trades.
II was declared by officials of the cleo
tricians' union that work on the big plant.
which Is one of the most extensive in
the country, had been practically stopped
at night. Ii was estimated that Go work
men had quit.
Ice Wagon Drivers in Columbus.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. May Lone hundred
drivers of ice wagons and helpers struck
today for shorter hours and higher wages.
The strike has led up ice business so COM
p,etely that no ice is delivered to any por-
ton of the city except In few exceptional
cases The ice contractors declare that the