The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-04
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cents. The company estimates the ad-
vance will cost $532, 900 in two years.
Conference at Youngstown.
youngstown, Ohio, May 4-Confer-
ences are to begin here today between
representatives of striking workmen
and their employers to talk over a set
Element.
Employers in the eight companies
affected by the strike of machinists.
sheet metal workers and other work
men are to hold meetings with their
own men, About 1. 500 men are strik-
ing, affecting 1000 men. The plant
of the General Fire Proofing company
closed down today.
/ Try to Break Miners Deadlock
Cleveland. May 4-Upor the report
of q subcommittee of miners and OPP
orators here today depends the solu-
ton of deadlock between men and
mine owners of the eastern Ohio dis
trict over a new working contract for
period beginning April j. If no So
luton comes, a strike of 14,0 600 miners
is indicated, according to John Moore,
president of the state miners organ
1zation, who is here.
The deadlock is over the question
of whether the arbitration clause in
Tie lOTIueF contract should remain
be entirely eliminated. Officials of the
operators association said the dead
lock was due to the refusal of the min
ers to let the arbitration clause In
their former contract remain.
Militia Control at Pittsburg.
Plttsburg, Pa, May 4.-E. M. Herr,
president of the Westinghouse E4ec-
trio and Manufacturing company
whose plants are closed because of a
strike of $1,000 workers for an eight
hour day, told a committee of strikers
today that he would be unable to dis
euss a settlement with them until to-
morrow. Federal and state officials
lare endeavoring to bring the company
and the men together.
While almost a thousand state
troops were on duty today in the Tur-
tie Creek valley and conditions about
the closed plants were quiet, unrest
was manifested in other parts of AL
Iegheney county. Seven hundred
Pressed Steel Car company EMPLOYEES.
Joined the 1900 already out
At the Mckinney Manufacturing
| company plant, girl strikers attacked
those who refused to strike and duck
ed one of them in horse trough. At
Mekees Rocks about 200 workers re-
turned to their places in the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie railroad shops.
The funerals of Michael Havrilka
and John Vargo, killed in the Brad
dock riot Tuesday were held today
without incident.
Call Out Builders in st. Louis.
st. Louis, May A committee rep
resenting unions affiliated with the
building Trades Council today began
| a tour of new buildings to call out
skilled workmen at places where nom
union men had been employed to take
the places of the striking members of
the Hold Carriers and Building La
i bOrerS' union.
A strike was called at the new build
ing of the Wagner Electric company
and it was predicted that by night at
various buildings 500 skilled men
would be added to the 1000 or 1900
strikers of the Hold Carriers and
Building Laborers' union.
Skilled workers were called out also
to-day at several other buildings. The
union leaders said 500 skilled men
struck today but contractors said the
number would not exceed 100.
A statement issued today by the
Master Builders association the en-
ployers organization explaining why
the demanded wage increases could
not be granted. declared that build
ing in st. Louis had decreased from
$29, 100000 in 1905 to $11,40G,O0O in
1915 This decline was attributed to
the high cost of building material.
as Machinists Return to Work.
Pittsburg, Pa, May 4.-Seventy-fiv
men, who have been out of work
since the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
machinists strike last week, returned
to the shops today. Many plants were
working full forces in Braddock and
vicinity and not strike picket was in
sight. Cavalry patrols covered the
Turtle Creek valley towns. but the
infantry was held in the temporary
barracks it occupied last night in East
Pittsburg.
TelegrapIlers Won't Call Strike
New York, May A movement to
mediate the differences between the
New York Central and Nickel Plate
and their five thousand telegraph
operators and signal men on lines be-
tween New York and Chicago was be-
gun here today by G. w. W. Hanger.
assistant commissioner of the federal
board of mediation and Cancellation.
H. B. Perham, president of the Order
, of Railway Telegraphers said a strike
would not be called today.
Report Wages on r. r. Men.
Washington, May 1.-THE senate
today agreed to the resolution by SEN
; ator Newla11ds requesting the fedora
board of mediation and control to fur
t nish q report on wages and working
conditions of railroad employees as
: affected by arbitration conducted un-
: der provision of federal statutes.
Famous Confederate Soldier III.
t Washington, May 4.-Co1. John s.
l Mosby, famous confederate guerilla