United labor bulletin., 1910-08-18

the various organizations OF labor and
the Buck Stove & Range Co., Of st.
Louis, Mo-, Messrs. Cribben and Hogan
being authorized by the new manager of
the Buck Stove & Range Co, of st.
Louis, Mo.
Messrs. Cribben and Hogan, for the
new manager, declared that he is the
supreme authority of the company; that
he expects to be in the active manage
ment thereof, and as chairman of the
board of directors is the highest official
of the company; that every one of his
associates in the directory and in the,
management of the company will be
loyal to his views; that his position in
reference to organized labor is that it is
an institution which has come to stay
for all time and that it has to be treated
with wisely and conservatively and upon
a friendly basis, and that these views
and this attitude has always been his,
and that the feeling and action of every
one connected with the Buck Stove &
Range Co. will henceforth be in this di
rection.
The representatives of labor express
| themselves as being in entire accord
with these expressions and declarations,
| that there is no feeling of antagonism to
| the Buck Stove & Range Co., and that
| under its new management friendly un-
derstanding may be reached and an
agreement made by which all may CO.
operate to the mutual advantage of the
company and organized labor. To that
end the following memorandum of agree
ment is hereby made:
/. Within thirty (30) days the officers
of the organizations herein named shall
| meet with the manager of the Buck Stove
& Range Co. at st. Louis, Mo-, for the
purpose of determining wages, hours of
labor, and conditions of employment of
the workers in the departments which
they respectively represent.
2. That the agreement in regard to
wages, hours, and conditions of employ
ment shall take effect ninety 600 days
from the date thereof, based on wages
and conditions existing in shops of COM
petitors in the city of ST. Louis, Mo-, op-
Grating union shops, fair conditions be-
ing the purpose of this agreement.
8. That the labor organizations in in
terest herein named shall jointly make
known and publicly declare that all con-
troversy or difference with the Buck
Stove & Range Co., of St. Louis. has
been satisfactorily and honorably ad-
justed
4. That the Buck Stove & Range Co.,
| through its representatives, Messrs. Crib
ben and Hogan, agree that it will with
draw its attorneys from any case pend
ing in the courts which have grown out
| of the dispute between the American
Federation of Labor and any of its affil-
lated organizations on the one hand and
the Buck Stove & Range Co. on the
other, and that the said company will
not bring any proceedings in the courts
against any individual or organization
growing out of any past controversies be-
tween said company and organized labor.
s. That a copy of this memorandum
and agreement will be published in the
next issue of the official journals of the
4 organizations participants in this confer
ence, and in printed form placed conspic-
| uously in the several labor departments
of the Buck Stove 4 Range Co., and, as
far as practical, every publicity be given
to the satisfactory agreement reached
between the Buck Stove Range Co.
and the American Federation of Labor.
For the Buck Stove & Range Co. and
the Stove Founders National Defense
association
VIM. H. CRIBBEN,
THOS J. HOGAN.
For the International Molders' Union of
/ North America
JOS. F. VALENTINE,
| JOHN p. FREY.
For the Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers
and Brass Workers International
/ Union of North America
II T. NJ. DAILY,
H CHAS. r. ATHERTON.
For the Stove Mounters International
FRANK GRIMSHAW,
Il ]. II. KAEFER.
For the International Brotherhood OF
II Foundry Employees
Il GEORGE BECHTOLD.
For the American Federation of Labor
SAM'L GOMPERS.
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