Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-23
.STOKERS STRIKE
! ENDS BY P. S. c.
TAKING MEN BACK
Situation Brought About BY
Threatened Strike by Other
Branches of Power-hOuse.
DEMAND FOR INCREASED
WAGES NOT GRANTED
President McCarter Tells Men
the Company Will Fight to
Bitter End Next Time.

The strike of the stokers employed
/ at the Coal street station OF the Public
Service Electrical Company ended to-
day when the Public Service, as the
result of a conference this morning
at which the other branches of en-
ployees of the power station threatened
a sympathetic strike unless the fire.
men were taken back to their old
places, agreed to take back the stokers
with no increase in pay. The stokers,
at a meeting Immediately following the
conference, decided to accept the prop
osition, and will go back to work late
today on their various shifts. The
strike breakers employed will be dis
charged
Presiden Thomas N. McCarter. who
| was present at the conference. ex-
pressed the position of the Public
Service in no halfway manner. A
statement from him was given out
this morning as follows:
Company's President Addresses Men.
Mr.. Roberts has placed your request
before me and he and have agreed to
accede to 1t. But 1 want to saw this:
| L..
| working for strictly private company.
We all are engaged In serving the pub:
lie; 1t is a duty with U.S. I want to
say that the men who went out with
out notice did not act fairly, either to
the company or to the public, and such
actions will not be tolerated 1t doesn't
i matter what the question is whittier
It be wage question or not, no set Of
men has a right to walk out without
notice. leaving a great generating sta
tion without sufficient help, and expect
consideration If you have grievances
they will always be heard by your
4 superintendent, by Mr.. Farr and by
Mr.. Roberts or myself. IL necessary,
and we will try to act fairly by you.
"Next Time the Company VIII Fight.
AS I have said. we mean to serve
the public, but I want you to know
now if any set of men walk out with
out sufficient warning in the future,
the public will have ITO be incommoded
for a time, If necessary. for the COM
pany will fight the thing to a finish.
Such actions as occurred this week
simply will not be tolerated, and we
want you to know it."
At the meeting of the union, held
shortly before the conference. there
was considerable dissent as to just
what the delegates should ask for. 1t
was finally agreed that they should
ask for reinstatement, and if possible,
an agreement whereby the question of
higher pay, the cause Of the strike,
should be submitted to arbitration.
i The request of the delegates, as final
ly presented at the conference, was as
follows:
DeIegates' written Request.
To the General Manager:
Dear Sir-This committee is wait
ing upon you for the sole purpose
of having the firemen reinstated in
their former places upon the same
basis upon which they formerly
worked and the men taking their
places be discharged. it being ufl-
derstood that in the event of this
taking place that all employees re-
turn to their places at once. Re-
4 spectfully, THE COMMITTED
The trades that threatened strige gave
notice yesterday afternoon that they
were prepared to go out at any mo-
ment They agreed to wait the result
! Of the conference today. A meeting of
} the union stokers and representatives
of the other trades was held before the
: conference at the headquarters of the
Stokers' Union, Washington and Mar
. ket streets.
! The present pay received by the stok-
ers is $2.45 per eight-hour day. Their
work is of the most trying character,
4 and they claimed that they should re-
} ceive at least s2.70. In submitting their
demand, they asked for no definite
amount, but were refused anything.
The men at the Marion power-house
are also out on strike. Various rumors
7 were current about trolley centres to-
day that the P. s. C. was having hard
time to supply the necessary current
for the trolleys.
The Secaucus and Hoboken power
plants were held in instant readiness
for service, If anything should stop the
local source.
The guard at the local plant was
carefully maintained this morning. No
trouble was occasioned other than that
resulting from number of half-grown
boys, who threw bricks and bottles at
i men working on the coal heap last
night.
The total number of stokers that
the union now claims on strike is
ninety-two. The Public Service Cor
poration would not officially admit that
number this morning. but place it at
about thirty-five to forty.
The number of engineers. oilers, etc,
that thretened to go out are as follows:
Engineers, eight; pipe-fitters, twelve;
machinists, seven; oilers, forty-two,
and switchboard operators, eighteen.
The names of the delegates who took
part in the session are: Switch board
operators, William Keegan and James
Gillies, for the IA c. board; G. Rior-
dan and G. Jones. for the high tension
board, and Thomas Sheridan and John
King for the I'D. C." board; pipe-fit-
ters, Peter Schuck and Patrick Han
Ion; oilers. city dock, Bernard Tyson;
Coal street, John Dunn and Fred
Price; engineers, John Watts, William
Hook and j. Hetz; Edward Brady,
night lighting dock superintendent.
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