Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-07-02

"ebN W FffGs dit0 1Ctt6F
ing This Afternoon-Statement is
Made BY President OF the Company.
Weavers in cassimer MIN Not Az
fected.
Eighty-two of the eighty-hve e
ers in the wooden mills of the Craw-
ford Wooden Company, failed to re-
port for work when the mills started
up after the noon hour today.
There has been more or less dis
satisfaction among the weavers in the
wooden department for some time past
and the imported labor coming from
Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cit
les have by their talk increased this
dissatisfaction until the result was a
demand on the company for an in
crease in the wage of the weavers.
On Monday the company posted the
following throughout the weaving de-
partment:
Notice.
Commencing July 1 we will pay a
bonus of 5 per cent to all weavers
having $40 or over on each pay, a
bonus of 6 per cent to all weavers
having s25 or over on each pay and
a bonus OF z per cent to all weayers
having $50 or over on each pay.
CRAWFORD WOODEN co.
Per w. H. Crawford. Pres.
The posting of this notice seems to
have brought matters to a head and
on Tuesday the following demand
was sent to the company's president:
Martinsburg. w. Va.
June rs, 1910
Mr.. w H. Crawford,
Pres. Crawford Wooden co.
Strive, the undersigned weavers.
in your employ, respectfully request
that you give favorable consideration
to the following conditions to which
we feel we are entitled:
First-An increase of / cent per
yard over the present wage scale.
Second-That the fine list be read
justed.
Third-That we have better mate
rial with which to work.
Trusting that you will give these
requests your favorable attention by
July l. we are.
Yours 5ery respectfully,
(~SIGNEED.)
This morning the company posted
their reply to the request of the wea-
vers as follows:
Notice.
Answering request of several OF our
weavers made on June %. would say:
First-We can not grant increase of
1 cent per yard asked for as goods
we are now making were sold On the
basis of our present wage scale and
there is not sufficient margin of profit
to allow any such increase, The vol
untary increase which we posted on
June 81 in the shape of a bonus is
the very best we can do.
Second-We have carefully compar-
ed our fine list with that of other
mills who make similar fabrics among
them American Wooden Co. and find
that our fine list is considerably low
err and in justice to ourselves, we can
not change present list. as we already
have too many imperfect goods.
Third-We are doing our very best
TO improve yarns furnished the wea-
vers and hope that there will be no
further trouble along this line. as we
have installed as an experiment one
winging machine and If same proves
successful, we intend rewinding all
our wool warns.
CRAWFORD WOODEN co.
Per w. H. Crawford Pres.
This last notice was too much for
the men and at the noon hour they de-
clded not to return to work until their
demands had been acceeded to by the
company. One loom was running this
afternoon.
Mr.. Crawford the president of the
company, this afternoon gave out the
following statement:
AFTER o careful comparison OF wag
es in other mills we find that we are
paying more than other mills making
We remit to the weaver fines for inn
our class of goods. and furthermore,
.perfections that do not show after the
goods are finished. We are the only
mill that we know of that gives the
weavers this advantage. Unless the
weavers return to work Immediately
we will be Obliged to make arrange
mamie With otha~ rni1Jg IN All c,yr rnn.