Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-23
SLOAN &. .CHACE
PLACES BAN ON
MANY STRIKERS
Only Selected Number of Ma
chinists Taken Back to
Work by Firm.
SUPT. WEBER PICKS
ONLY THE SKILLED MEN
Tells the Others They Will
Have to Make AppIi-
cations.
SUPT. WEBER PICKS
ONLY THE SKILLED MEN

There was a general scramble to
get back to work this morning among
the striking machinlsts at the Sloan
& Chace plant, Thirteenth street and
Sixth avenue, this city, but they
didn't all succeed in getting their old
positions. When the men voted on
Saturday to return to work after their
two weeks strike, which they had
lost, 1t was thought that they would
all be accepted by their employers.
This was not, however, the case. The
skilled mechanics were taken in, but
many of the others will have to wait
for a while. Also many of the strike
breakers, who came here from Ho-
boken while the other men were out,
were absent. They had been paid off
Saturday and discharged after the
old hands had decided to return.
When the doors of the shop were
opened this morning Superintendent
Otto Weber called off the names of
the men who were wanted in the shop
at this time. Some others were told
that they would be given back their
old jobs as soon as there was work
for them. A third contingent were
told that they would have to make
application for their Jobs, which
would indicate that the statement
made by Peter Weber. president of
the concern, that some of the men
could not come back to work under
any circumstances, would be carried
out.
Only about half of the men who
had been brought to the shop last
week from New York and Hoboken
reported for work today. Many of
these, who were strikebreakers, were
paid off on Saturday after the strikers
voted to return to work and were told
not to come back.
Many of the skilled mechanics who
secured positions in other shops a
couple of days after the strike was
called returned to the Sloan & Chace
plant today and were given heir old
jobs back.
In addition to the strikers, there
were n large number of outsiders
who made applications for jobs, due
to the fact that statements had been
made that many of the men employed
at the plant had secured Jobs else
where and would not return to work
lney 1alleu or their mission. ABOUT
three-quarters of the force employed
at the shop is now at work
MONDAY Meeting.
Local organizers of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists have
arranged for noon-day meeting to-
morrow at the shop of the Splitdorf
Electrical Company on High street.
They have also arranged for a
mass meeting on Thursday night at
Labor Lyceum, Fourteenth street and
Springfield avenue, which will be ad-
dressed by Thomas Carroll, national
organizer of the machinists, and An
thony Spair, organizer of the Potters'
Union, of Trenton.
The New Jersey District Assooia-
tion is also arranging for mass meet
ings at Elizabeth and New Bruins
wick this week. the days to be an
nounced later. On Thursday night at
Perth Amboy, mass meeting will
be held, at which time thu main
tainence men employed in the smelt-
ing plants will decide as to whether
they will go on strike. About 100 men
will be affected If strike is called