Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-04
MACH|NISTS
WALK OUT IN
LOCAL PLANT
Threatened Strike Began To-
day When Men Quit at Sloan
& Chase Plant.
ASK FOR LESS HOURS
AT THE PRESENT PAY
Men on Way to Other Plants
to Make Demands
There.

The first Of threatened strikes in
the machinist trade in Newark was
called at noon today at the plant of
the Sloan & Chase Manufacturing
Company at Sixth avenue and Thir-
,, teenth street, and according to Carl
Larsen, district organizer of the
Brotherhood of Metal Workers 500
men quit work. Superintendent Peter
Weber refused to say much about the
strike, but declared that the total
number of employees was less than
800, and said only a few went out.
The employees include toolmakers,
diemakers, specializers, helpers and
laborers. The specializers and la
borers are not organized, but all the
other workmen are, according to the
union officials. Every employe went
out, however, according to Organizer
Larsen.
Henry Stumpf headed a committee
which presented a list of printed de-
mands, the most important being that
the men be required to work forty
eight hours per week in place of fifty
five, the present schedule, and that
the pay remain as at present. They
demanded also that no unskilled
worker should be paid less than
twenty-five cents per hour and that
double time be paid for work done on
Sundays. holidays and after o'clock
at night.
Firm Says Can't Grant Demands
superintendent Weber replied with
a statement in which he said that as
80 per cent. of the present employees
do not earn one-half of the amount
of wages paid them at present,
granting their demands would be ou.
of the question.
Accordingly the strike was de-
clared at noon and the men marched
to a hall at Fourteenth street and
Sixth avenue, which was engaged as
headquarters. There was no dis
turbance as they left the works.
| When inquiry was made at the
factory about the strike Superintend-
ent Weber said that he would not
! make any statement at this time.
When this strike had been called
| Organizer Larsen and other Brother
I hOON clotiiOl lNltS Ntul " the pant VI
the Crocker- Wheeler Company, in
the Ampere section.
That the time is ripe for local ma
chinists to make a demand for an
eight-hour day anaaa substantial wage
I increase was the consensus of opn-
ION of the members of Local $40, In
ternational Association of Machinists,
at their meeting last night in Iroquois
hall, 200 Washington street.
In order to get the opinion of the
machinists both in and out of the
union relative to making demands on
the employers, a mass meeting will
be held at Labor Lyceum, Fourteenth
street and Springfield avenue. next
Tuesday night, when everyone will
have a chance to express their views
on the local situation.
AT the meeting last night the men,
bers were urged to use their best en-
deavors to get the machinists outside
the union into the fold by pointing
out to them the value of organization
in the fight which is to be waged to
better their condition.
1t is estimated that there are about
1000 machinists in the jurisdiction of
the local union, and of this number
there are about 500 members of the
union. A number of applications for
membership were received last night,
which would indicate that the ma
chinists who have not been members
of the union are lining up with their
union brethren.
The demands of the machinlsts will
be for an eight hour day, $3.25 per
day for machinists and S425 per day
for die and tool makers.
Some Acid Workers Go Back.
At the Mas & Waldstein plant,
where the men employed in the acid
room went on strike on Monday for
shorter hours and wage increase, 1t
was stated that some or the men had
returned TO work and that others had
been engaged, and SO far as the firm
was concerned the strike was over
The storm evidently kept the strik-
ers away from the vicinity of the
plant, for at Miller's boathouse, where
they had established temporary head
quarters, ii was stated that none Of
them had put in an appearance to-
day There was no one in the vicinity
of the new plant of the American
Synthetic Dyes, Inc, in Avenue r,
where the laborers went on strike
Monday, and just how near to a set
tlement the firm of jarrett & Cham
bers, contractors, and the men had
come to settlement could not be
learned.
Max Bruck, business agent of the
local Cloak and Skirt Makers Union,
said that final action regarding the
strike of the local cloak makers had
been deferred until tomorrow at the
request of the board of conciliators
of New York, who had requested
that action be deferred by the union
so that they could make last effort
to settle the trouble between the
union and employers without a strike
Mr.. Bruck said that the union would
positively declare a strike tomorrow
unless a settlement was reached.