The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-19
Manufacturing HatterS
Say They Know Nothing
of Fort Agreement.
END OF TROUBLE SEEMS
TO BE FURTHER AWAY
Rummell, C0nnett and Other:
Assert That Terms Are
Not Satisfactory.


That the almost unanimous accept
ance by the striking hatters of the
terms of the peace pact drawn up under
the auspices Of Governor Fort to end
the strike may go for naught was
shown TO-DAY when prominent hat
manufacturers ractically repudiated
the agreement by declaring they knew
nothing about it.
49, over 1000 hatters in Orange and New
ark voted to ratify the agreement yes
terday which manifestly Incorporated a
triumph for them The women hat
trimmers baked at the clause by which
the thirty-three deserters from the
union who stood by the manufacturers
Were to have their union cards restored
to them
Yet in the face of this vote John A.
: Rummell, vice-president of the ]. Rum
Z nell d Co. Hat Manufacturing Com
~pany, and president of the Manufac-
turers' Association, said today:
"Fhere will be no action taken by the
manufacturers. That meeting of the
strike means nothing SO far MS we are
concerned. am not Interested in it
i'm the Ieast.'
A representative of H. D. Parmlee &
Co. said:
Il know nothing of such an agree
ment as was voted on yesterday other
than what | have read in the papers.
No meeting of the manufacturers has
been called nor is any to be held that
know Of
Ernest Connect. of E. V Connett &
: Co. hat manufacturers, with factories
in Orange and Newark said today:
Il know, of no agreement among the
manufacturers to end the strike be-
cause of the decision reached by the
striking hatters in their vote yester-
day."
Outside of the action of the hat trim
mers, who did not ratify the agree
ment because of the Objectionable
clause, the vote in favor of it yester
day was practically unanimous in Or
ange and Newark. 1t was understood
that all that was necessary to end
the strike was the assent of the mem
bers of the union. President John A.
Moffitt, with the members of the ad-
visory board of the United Hatters Of
America, appeared at the meeting in
Michers Hall, Newark, and the Or
ange Armory and the German -Ameri-
can School in orange and urged upon
the members of the various locals the
advsability of voting for the agree
ment. He was successful, as the
almost unanimous vote in favor of the
proposition shows.
This agreement had been drawn up
at recent conference in the executive
cottage in Sea Girt between Governor
Fort, President Moffitt and three of
the prominent hat manufacturers. It's
provisions carried a sweeping victory.
for the strikers, the only bitter pill for
them being the clause requiring them
to restore union cards to thirty-three
members of the union who had refused
to leave the factories when the strike
was called.
Fort Sends Telegram.
During the balloting yesterday Presi-
dent Mofitt received the following
telegram from Governor Fort:
Telegram just received. I earnestly
hope that the action of the hatters of
which your telegram advises me will
result in a settlement of the long and
unfortunate controversy existing be-
tween them and their employers All
that is needed is proper spirit of
conciliation and fairness on both sides
to again open the factories and save
the industry to New Jersey"
After the meeting of the members OF
the Hat Trimmers Union in Orange
one of the members declared:
I'VE will never go back to work with
those who deserted us"
Governor Fort expected to hear from
the manufacturers today, but if the