Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-09
STRIKERS GAIN
AP@|NT FROM
SLOAN & CHACE
President Weber Tells Them
He'll GrantShorter Work
Week.
lNSISTENCE is MADE
AS TO NEUTRAL STAND
Delegates to Represent Each
Department Must Not Be In
fIuenced by Union.

Peter Weber, president of the Sloan
& Chace Manufacturing Company, al
Thirteenth street and Sixth avenue
announced to his striking machinists
when the shop committee waited on
him at ! o'clock today that he would
reduce the working week from fifty
five hours to fifty-two and one-half
hours, and said he would receive the
strikers back Wednesday morning on
those terms. At an earlier meeting
held this morning he declared he
would not listen to any demands from
the men.
Mr. Weber said that conditions
have so changed in the last week that
not all of the men could be taken
back because of lack of work that
the night shift would be knocked off
entirely and the day force reduced,
but that SO far as work would permit
the men would be taken back.
The strikers went into executive
session to consider the offer. Presi-
dent Weber did not relax his tones
in talking to the men, but they said
they really were surprised to get the
offer of q reduction of hours at the
first conference. Their demand is
that the hours be reduced to forty
eight per week.
Probably due to the fact that Mr..
Weber had promised to meet the
strikers from his plant the meeting
which was held between some of the
men from the Sloan & Chace plant
and some from the Crocker- Wheeler
plant at noon did not evoke any great
| amount of enthusiasm.
The meeting was for the purpose OF
organizing the employees of the
Crocker- Wheeler Company into the
International Brotherhood of Metal
Workers. The meeting was addressed
by Stephen Berscher. one of the ma
tional organizers of the metal work.
ers, who told the men that now Is
| the time to organize because of the
| present labor movement throughout
| the country for an eight-hour day.
He informed the men that the In
ternational Brotherhood of Meta,
! Workers is conducting the strike al
| the Sloan & Chace plant
While Berscher was addressing the
men, Carl Larsen, another organizer,
passed application blanks among the
men who received them without any
particular demonstration as to their
! intentions of uniting with the
brotherhood What little enthusiasm
there was at the meeting was all on
the part of the Sloan q Chace Com
pany strikers.
Mr.. Berscher announced that sew
eral more meetings will be held at
which he will expound upon the bene-
fits to be derived from aff1liating with
the brotherhood. There will also be
meetings of the Crocker- Wheeler en-
ployes to settle as to whether they
will demand an eight-hour day.
Very Few Go Back.
Only one out of the more than 300
who went on strike last week at the
Sloan & Chace plant have returned to
work, the pickets reporting thirty
men In the shop today 1t was said
at strike headquarters that the return
of the men reported back at work was
not unexpected, and that other defec-
tions are unlikely.
There was no suggestion of con-
ciliation in the notice posted by Presi-
dent Weber which read:
ITO my employees: | am prepared
to see a committee of one or more
from each department of my en-
ployes, who are to be selected by the
men of the different departments, on
Monday, the ninth inst, at ] p. m
II want 1t distinctly understood
that the men of this committee must
have no connection with any striking
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