New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-01
MACH|N|STS' STRIKE DAY
Four Thousand Men Out Ahead
of Time Appointed.
DEMAND 8-H0UR W0RkDAY
Number of Idle Hands Will BE
Increased to 10000, 1t Is
Expected, Before Night.

The strike committee Of District. No II
Of the international Association OF Ma
chinists. whose members will strike in New
York and Hudson County. y. j. to-day
for the eight-hour day in all shops where
the demand has been refused reported yes
terday that ten halls in Manhattan ana
Brooklyn have been engaged as headquar
tiers for the strikers The principal head
quarters in Manhattan will be clinton man,
No. Isl Clinton street. and the main brooh-
lyn headquarters will he Assembly HAN
Pearl and Adams streets.
Committees 10 call the men out TO-DAY
were appointed Yesterday az meetings oi
the various lodges J. ! Keppler wee
president Of the international Association
Of Machinists who is now in this city, at
tended some of the meetings. The primer
nal meeting was held in odd Fellows
Hall. No. 81 ST. Marks Place. where James
Wilson. secretary Of District No. 10 ana
others made reports.
Mr. Wilson said later that about four
thousand machnists are on strike ahead OF
time. and the number Is expected 10 ne
increased 10 ten thousand to-day. or 'he
four thousand he said more than l"" are
on strike in the'shops Of the F. w. Bliss
COMPANY. Brooklyn: loo in the shops or
r Hoe e. Co. Grand and Sherif streets
Manhattan. and about 100 in the shops OF
the American Machine and Foundry COM
panv and the Underwood Company Brook
lvn. and the John y Robins Company
Erie Basin. independent Of smaller firms.
About twenty-five independent concerns
have averted a strike by granting the de-
nen6 The principal fight will be against
the members Of the New York and Ne"
Jersey Metal Trades Association. when
decided against the demand
I'm all about 400 shops will be involved.
large and small IN the strike. said VIII
son. About 500 rachnists, 7 expect. VIII
strike I'm the shops of the association ana
non association employers who have not
granted the demand tomorrow II Is pos
sihle that al the last moment more hrms
will WELD We are in a better position Tor
a strike than when struck last Inc
non-union men are coming out with the
union men, as In the last strike, but this
time there are much fever non-union men
than before the last strike. and the trade
is we'll organized
New Haven. April 3o-May Day viii ma
more unrest in labor circles IN this state
than has been the case in the last four or
FIVE wears In Norwich two hundred oper-
atives Of the Falls Woollen Mills are out
on a strike. which has beer accompanied
by trouble between the strikers and the
authorities six Of the nan being in lail
serving sentences for Noting.
Toledo April 3o-About four hundrea
union men will refuse 20 20 10 work mere
tomorrow morning unless their employers
grant their demands for an increase III
wages AZ present there are nifty oarnen
ters on strike like number OF plumbers
AID one hundred steamftters viii refuse
n go 10 work 10 morrow morning TWO
h, ndred members Of the Bricklayers' Union
also declared today that unless their de-
niards We're met they would refuse 70 20
10 work