United labor bulletin., 1912-07-18
C|CARMAKERS' union ENDS
STRIKE IN SOILS FACTORY
Men Will Return 10 Work With Grievances Satisfac-
toriIy Adjusted Tobacco Shippers
Case

The Cigarmakers' union, through J.
Farrell, agent for the international union,
mas settled their strike with the Soils
Cigar company, and the members of the
Clgarmakers union as well as the To-
Dacco Strippers' union will return to
work Monday of next week
The Cigarmakers recently made de-
mands that the shop conditions be
changed The organization had consider
able trouble with the company in adjust
ing this matter. and considerable i'll feel
ing was known to have existed between
the cigarmakers employed in the shop
ana the management of the company.
Time passed under these conditions until
recently the Soils company let out about
seventy of its employees in a single day
Ihey were principally old men in the
employ OF the company. The manage
ment continued in its employ new men
VINO had been recently brought from the
east This made it appear to the Cigar
makers union that the company had
brought the men here for the purpose of
leaving the men go that had been active
In adjusting and working for good condf-
tions IN the factory. A meeting of the
organization was called and the sfxtv
workmen remaining in the factory were
also called out, the organization claim
ing that the original number were locked
out.
This brought the issue to focus. The
matter was taken up with the interna-
tlonal officers, and the result was that
MI Farrell was sent to Denver to settle
tne trouble The men go back to work
with all their demands satisfied. The
conditions regarding stock has been sat
isfactorily settled, and Monday 13O of
the most competent cigarmakers in Dem
yer VIII resume work at the factory
where the Dry Climate cigar is made.
The Cigarmakers' union is to be CON
graduated on securing a settlement at
/ this time since much talk has been made
OF having the cigars of several large
Denver manufacturers made in Phfladel-
phia
The Tobacco Strippers' union met
Tuesday evening at $50 O'Clock, at
Cooks hall. to consider action against
the Denver cigar manufacturers that
have their tobacco prepared in the east
IN unsanitary workshops and shipped to
Denver to be made into union labeled
cigars.
| The communication written by the
president of the Trades assembly to the
secretary of the A. F. of L. was read as
was the reply thereto. made by Secretary
morrison. The organization decided to
take the matter up with the Cigarmak-
ers union, which met at o'clock the
same evening The correspondence in
the matter was read at the meeting of
the Cigarmakers. and they decided to re-
fer the correspondence and subject mat
ter TO the grievance committee The
committee will report at the next meet
ing OF the organization.
The committee from the Tobacco
Strippers' union that has this PROPOSE
ton in hand consists of Fannie Bancroft,
chairman; Anna Turner Hazel Page. and
Ida Richmond. The committee has ham
died the matter so far in an able manner.
but they have been handicapped by the
fact that since the proposition was taken
up thirty some members of the organiza-
ton have become unemployed through
the strike of the cigarmakers at the Soils
Cigar company.
| The letter of Secretary Frank Morrf-
son bearing on the matter is quite
lengthy and commends the president OF
the assembly on the stand he has taken
for industrial unionism. The letter says
tlat the complaint of the Tobacco Strip
pers is just one. but adds that it should
be handled by the International Cigar
makers union and by the A. f. eI L. be-
| fore it is taken up in any one locality.
The Bulletin will endeavor to find room
for the communication in its next issue.