Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-25

Liberal concessions and prompt ac l ton on the part Of the officials of the l Quidnick- Windham Manufacturing Co | through its agent. Walter B. Knight | brought about a satisfactory settle ment of the strike at the local plant 1 of the company Wednesday afternoon | and as a result the strikers will be at 1 their places in the various mills this i CThursday) morning when the whistle l blows
 Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock the l committee from the strikers waited upon Agent w. 5. Knight and dis cussed the matter. MT. Knight asked 1 the committee to return in a little while as he wished an opportunity to confer with the officials of the com pany who live in Rhode Island Fol | lowing the conference, the members 1 of the committee said they had been well received by Mir. Knight and that | they were of the opinion the matter
 would be adjusted as the company had met their demands fairly and 1 even more.
 At 113o o'clock Frank Riley, who 1 had been selected by the committee
 for the second conference with Mr. ] Knight called again at the office, and l Mir. Knight said that if the commit
 tee was backed up by the strikers when they held their meeting in the
 town hall at o'clock in the after noon, he felt that the matter would be adjusted and that all would be back | at their work Thursday morning. He
 said there was no necessity for the | so-called strike in the first place and | that if the operatives had come to l him or sent a committee to him before
 they went out there would have been no OCca sion for anyone to lose any | time, as a settlement of the matter could have been effected then. He said the weavers had assured him they 1 were satisfied With their condition. i He further stated that when the re- ! cent increase went into effect all the weavers had been raised from 9 to Il per cent, according to the class of 1 goods on which they worked.
 At o'clock in the afternoon several 1 hundred of the strikers gathered in | the town hall, held another meeting and heard the report of the commit tee concerning the result of the two conferences with Agent Knight. The meeting was held in executive session | but from some who attended it was learned that Alr. Knight had been aU- ! thOrized to give the doffers and spin 1 ners the ten per cent. raise they de- manded and also to eliminate the 20
 minutes overtime each day which the
 strikers claimed they had to work without compensation.
 There was a discussion immediately
 as the weavers felt that as they had
 come out on strike with the dofferS and spinners. they should receive some
 further consideration in the matter oi
 a raise. A committee from the weav- CTS was then named to call upon MT
 Knight, but he was out and the com
 mittee returned to the hall
 The carders did not come out vol
 unfairly with the d0Hers, spinners anC
 WeaYers. but had remained out becaus,
 they could not work because of th'
 idleness in other departments. If tn,
 carders are not satisfied with thei
 condition, it was intimated by som,
 of the other strikers that they would
 have to fight their own fight alone
 The announcement was made lat
 Wednesday afternoon that the de
 mands made by the strikers had beel met and that everything had been ad : justed to the satisfaction of all an l that all would go back to work