The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
May Day Is Comparatively Quiet
i'm Labor Circles.
Owners of Steamer Lines Have
a Little Trouble.
CARPENTERS GO OUT.
Those of Paterson and Newark
Strike for Higher Wages.
Ice Business Tied Up byDrivers'
Strike at Columbus.

New York, May MAY day found
the working men in comparatively
few of the trades in this city ready to
assert any demands for increased
wages and in consequence strikes
We're few. Chief interest centered in
the possibility of a strike today of
the first and second and third officers
of the coastwise steamers who have
made demands for increased wages.
Up to today. seven of the II lines of
steamers having terminals in this city
had accepted the new schedule. Rep
resentatives of the department of
have been sent to this city to try to
avert the threatened trouble.
The general manager of the Con-
solidated Steamship lines owned by G.
w. Morse, made a compromise offer
but it was declined At the Offices of
the Mallory line, it 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 steamers belonging to the lines
which refused to advance wages
would return to their duties until the
advances We're granted.
Most of the steamship lines affect
ed by the strike run steamers to
southern ports and New York and
Boston. Captain Dow said that the
first. second and third officers of the
Clyde, Mallory. Ward, Old Dominion,
Savannah, New York and Porto Rico.
red d. D., all of which operate steam
ers between New York and southern
ports. had left the steamers which are
~, I,se II, \
the officers of the Metropolitan line
to Boston. the Maine Steamship COM
pany running to Portland, Me. and
the Windsor line, operating between
Philadelphia and Boston and Provi- |
dence. had also left their posts |
Agreements were reached he added |
with the Panama, Bull. Luckenbach !
and Brunswick lines, and the Mer- !
company of Baltimore, and negotia-
tions were in progress with the Nor |
gan line. which belongs to the South |
ern Pacific company Captain Dow |
declared that he expected the other |
companies to come to terms shortly.
On the lines of the ConsOlidat ted |
Steamship company he said 800 men |
were out
The journeymen painters have been |
on strike for few weeks, demanding |
an increase in wages for plain painting
from $3.50 to 81 per day and for decora- |
tive painting from 81 to $3.50 per day, |
and are still out. 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., 1000 journeymen
carpenters went on a strike today for |
an Increase in wages from $3.50 to 81 a
day. The building operations in that
citv were at a standstill.
Thirteen hundred carpenters in New
ark, N J., struck today to enforce a
n mr. n wal from
4715 cents to so cents per hour. All of
these were employed by members of the |
masters association. The demands of
the men were granted by Independent |
employers and 800 carpenters remained
at work.
Wood Workers Strike at Denver.
Denver, Colo, May 1.-Union millmen
and woodworkers employed in the plan
ing mills of the lumber yards of this
city went on strike today to enforce
their demand for a closed shop. About
1 900 men are involved. No shops were
compelled to close as the nonunion men
continued at work. sympathetic
strike in the building trades may fol-
low.
Columbus, o., May lone hundred
drivers of ice wagons and helpers
struck today for shorter hours and
higher wages. The strike tied up the
ice business so completely thot no ice
was delivered only in a. few exceptional
cases.
Teamsters Go Out.
Los Angeles, Cal May IA large
number of union teamsters of this city
went on strike this morning against the
declaration of an open shop by the Los
Angeles Jobbers' association and also
to enforce a demand for increase of
wages Several hundred men are affect
ed So far only the drivers of the
heavy trucks have gone out. but the
strike may spread to all branches. The
strike is especially serious at this time
because of the fiesta which begins next
week. and also the national conclave of
Shriners The men demand an increase
of so cents a day.