Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-22
FIGHT is ON.
Continued from Page One.)

resort to lockout methods in handling
the dispute with their packers, the fol-
lowing notice having been posted in
every room Of their factory today:
"A shoe factory is similar to a fine
machine. If any one wheel of the ma
chine Is broken or missing every other
wheel and part is affected. So it is
with a shoe factory organization.
When any department cannot or does
not do ITS part, all the other depart
ments must of necessity stop. 1t is
regrettable that all departments must
suffer by cessation from work, but the
non-action of one department has nee
essitated this. When the missing part
resumes it's place in the organization,
we can start"
Although there has been no violence
thus far. demonstration shortly after
6 o'clock this evening in the vicinity Of
tie Harvey factory on the part of the
strikers and sympathizers against sew
eral employees who are said to have re-
fused to fulfil the conditions of the
unions ultimatum has caused the po-
lice to be in readiness to handle any
outbreak.
This afternoon the strikers encour-
aged by the appearance on the public
platform at one of the strikers meet
ings of Michael J. Tracy. business
agent of the Lasting Machine Opera
tors, who was the leader of the sue
cessful strike of last fall. Mr.. Tracy
warned the strikers not to resort to
violence and advised them to stay away
from the factory buildings altogether
while their officers engaged in the work
of organizing other shops and prepared
arguments for presentation to the pub
Tic on the issue involved.
Lynn, Mass. July 21.-It was very ap-
parent that general strike among tho
shoe trade workers of Lynn was threat
eped today because of the failure of
;ome 200 shoe packers to rettirn to their
work. The packers in only four facto
RES were out today, but the uneasiness
caused by the statement issued Monday
by the Shoe Manufacturers Association.
in which a vigorous attack was made
upon the union leaders and union meth
DDS and which contained a yelled threat
to remove the shoe industry from Lynn,
has caused considerable anxiety about the
city and, it is said. has stirred the unions
into activity as we'll as the manufacture
ers
Although only about 200 packers were
affected today. should they
continue to strike for several days about
l0OC would be thrown out of work in the
four factories alone. The factories whose
packers were out today were v. G. & A.
Il. Jones, James Phelan & Sons, Joseph
Caunt & Co. and the p j. Harvey Shoe
Company.
The striking packers will not go back
because of the failure of the manufac-
turers to accept price list providing
uirimum wage of SO a week and a new
sliding scale for apprentices.
F. K. Kidder. business agent of the
Packing Room Employees Union. stated
tcday that the union had accomplished
everything it had set out to do up to
date. The four factories affected today
ire the strongholds of the Packers Union
md their packing departments are said to
)e at standstill
A mass meeting was held this forenoon
N Lasters' hall, where plan of action
vos mapped out by the union leaders re-
'arding the other packing rooms in the
city.
Business interests in the city were
Watching the strike situation keenly to-
lay, for the big lasters' strike last Octo-
ser started in practically the same man.
ner this one.
At the mass meeting the strikers voted
to flight to finish"