The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-16
VOTE NOT
TO RETURN; GRAND
JURY SATISFIED


places yssterday-Michers Hall, 66
South Orange avenue. Newark, and the
armory in Orange. At the former place
the balloting was o completed until
almost midnight. The count was super
vised by George F. Reeve. president Of
the Newark Board of Trade; h Rev.
DR.. Edmund A. WATSON, rector of st.
Stephens Episcopal Church, and rep
resentatives of the newspapers. TIL,
Newark locals were represented ty
Miss Malinda Scott, secretary of the
hat trimmers; Miss Agnes Freil. Sec
rotary of the. weighers and feeders;
Stringer White. secretary of Local No.
II, and James Byrne, secretary Of Local
No. IA. DR.. WATSON and Mr.. Reeve re-
manned at the hall until after the votes
were all counted. There were six hours
of balloting. extending from 3 p. m. to
9 p. m.
A very large percentage of the women
members of the unions. turned out to
vote. The balloting, by a strange CO.
Incidence. cd just six months to a
day aztec the strike was called.
Urged Not to Return.
James IIy,ne, secretary of Local No.
II, addressed the assembled strikers be-
fore the lair ting, and explained to
them the purpose for which they had
assembled. When he declared that thsy
ere there to decide the question cf
whether they wished to return to work
without The Union label the cheering
aid cries of mol" continued for five
%.rinutes.
President Months statement.
President Mofftt made the following
statement today on the result Of the
election:
II would have been very much dis
appointed II the result of the vote of
yesterday had been anything other
than what was shown. Tit vote was
but a reaf1rmation Of the vote the hat
tiers had taken prior to January ID, 1906,
as to whether they would continue to
work without the use Of the union
label. The manufacturers have con-
tended from the beginning that the
rank and file of the hatters were never
given an opportunity to vote on the
question that caused the present Jock
out. 1 firmly believe that m%isrepre-
sensations were made to the manufac-
turers. for In their petitions to the
Federal and State courts for the in
functions to restrain the hatters' or
ganization and It's officials from exer-
cising what they believed to be their
legal rights. mistakes We're made.
THE action of yesterday is a glorious
vindication of the officers of the United
Hatters of North America. But for all
that, now that we have shown to the
hat manufacturers and grand jury the
position Of the general membership OF
the United Hatters of North America
In their present struggle, 1 feel that
the manufacturers are in honor bound
to meet with the representatives of their
former employees to bring about an
honorable adjustment of the contro-
versy.
81 wish to extend the thanks OF the
United Hatters of North America to
the STAR for the interest taken in the
matter"
Many dramatic features marked the
bailoting in the Orange armory. For
four hours the men were In line before
the last mar had cast his ballot. and
the long line of hatters extended far
out into Centre street. the men cour-
teously insisting on allowing the
women to cast their ballots first. At
the head of the line of men for more
than an hour and a half stood a de-
termined father, who held his babe in
his arms. The little one fretted occa-
sionaily owing to the heat. but was
quiet, and the union men insisted on the