Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-16
Nav Use Strike Breakers


In the statement of the Rhode Is
,ard Co. directors comes the first in
timation that the company contem-
.ates putting strike breakers at work
in ease the union men do not come to
some agreement soon.
President A. E. Potter Of the COM
nany also sent a communication TO
me union tonight in which he asks
fur a prompt reply since pubic ne
c,ssities call for active measures to
IN he places of the men of your as
FsScition should you persist in the at
etits1s you have taken
Directors Acceptance
4 IN accepting the mayors offer to ar
Atnte, the directors issued the fol-
AHinx communication:
II am IN receipt Of your favor OF this
u addressed to me as chairman OF
board Of trustees of the Rhode Is
Go, offering your services to ter
f possible, the situation grow
1r0 the differences between the
A. island Co. and the Garments
Ghion.
7 am not authorized by the board
Of directors of the Rhode Island Co.,
10 write to you what I said orally at
our interview this morning, when l
called Immediately after the receipt
II your letter.
This company has definitely and dis
tjnrtly offaraI 70 c,,hy,;t IN arbitration
II has proposed that it should select
as a. arbitrator one of the three names
oHered by the representatives of the
Union and has submitted to the repre-
sentatives Of the union the names OF
tfres disinterested persons, from
whom the union may select another
arbitrator and agreed that the board
Ihltration should consist Of the two
persons thus chosen and a third to be
naned by them.
lou suggested to me this morning
At the representatives of the union
eisht prefer to name as an arbitrator
we OF the three men whose names
aley nave given me. and that they
.n0uio name as another, one of the
'nfee men whose names we have pro-
posed.
This method we are willing to &C.
N,~ Although. as YOU said, the strike
'..,,s exists, we are nevertheless
"''niis TO leave our offer Of arbitration
:" ,ais manner open for acceptance for
little longer.
lou must realize. however. and
a' .he time will come, and that be-
w.. long when, in default of an ad-
~ 1t will be our manifest duty
W.. VIC pubic TO attempt to fill the
our VI !hose employees who have left
NAV s service, whatever such attempt
r'es'dent's Communication
the s' uns POtters communication to
" . snSl,. sent tonight says
tors a, ,n to the board Of direc-
mes,;n w. 'ne Rhode Island Co. at their
SEN, ,a today, the reply which YOU
h ea. last evening to the ,at,sr 40
distino. ,.'i' you Yesterday. That letter
board os oners to disinterested
maini,s loi'ration the questions re-
and yonr at issue between the company
frors uiiefed to select ono .r,;.r,.
from the three men 49, one arbitrator
d,sjn,ers submitted the lanes of three
night selec, men from whom you
Proposed tha, another arbitrator and
should se,ao. ' ,hese two men so chosen
tia, ths se,ee eth. the third arbitrator. and
disinteras... nfee should constitute n.
Agreed upon fo OF arbitration
posa aIur reply did not accen, mr. ,,,o-
original nron. SIMPLY reafiirmed your
shoul apno,n. oss "a, that your association
!. c.. r0'n' all three members Of the
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