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At a conference between the men and the head of the Bannister Company, an agreement was reached under which the cut was reduced to one and onehalf cents per pair, and made to apply to only two grades of shoes instead of four as at first contemplated. The lasters of the Boyden Shoe Company and the Johnson & Murphy Company received an increase of one-half cent per pair. The wage loss was approximately $2,600.

JANUARY 19-About one hundred and fifty union workmen―masons, carpenters, plumbers and men of other organized trades, quit work on the new Seton Hall College building in South Orange, because the Lape Construction Company, of New York, plumbing contractors, had brought workmen from that city who were members of the International Association of Steamfitters, and refused to discharge them in order to make place for members of the United Association of Steamfitters which had a local branch in East Orange. Both these organizations are regarded as “regular” by the American Federation of Labor, but an agreement exists between them under which members of one shall not work in the territory of the other without first becoming a member of the union in that territory. South Orange being the exclusive territory of the United Association, the presence of the New York workmen on the local job was regarded as a violation of the agreement between the unions.

The strike ended two weeks later in the withdrawal of several New York workmen, who declined to join the local organization as the others had done. The wage loss occasioned by the strike was $5,400.

JANUARY 21-Eight polishers and buffers-members of the union of that occupation, employed in the Empire City Metallic Bed Company's works at Jersey City, went on strike to force the re-instatement of their foreman, who had been discharged by the factory superintendent. After an investigation of the reasons for discharging the foreman, the strikers returned to work by order of their walking delegate. The strike lasted three days, and the wage loss, as reported, was $75.

JANUARY 24-Five hundred and fifty employees of the Great Eastern Clay Company, at South River, went on strike against the employment of any but union labor at the works, or in other words to force a recognition of the union and make the plant a "closed shop." The company refused to yield, and the strikers abandoning their position with regard to the union, returned to work on January 25, after having been idle twenty-one days. The strike was peaceful throughout its course, and the wage loss was, as reported, $18,000.

JANUARY 24-Fourteen drivers employed by the Jersey City Fertilizing Transportation Company, of Jersey City, went on strike for an increase in their wages of $2 per week. They had been receiving $12 per week, which they demanded should be increased to $14. After one day's idleness, the strikers returned to work under a compromise which gave them $13, an increase of $1 per week. The wage loss, as reported, was $28.

JANUARY 24-Two hundred trousers makers, of Garment Workers Union, Local No. 24, quit work in six Newark shops, charging against their employ

ers bad faith in the matter of carrying out existing agreements. They were not, it was claimed, allowed to keep "wage books," in which to enter an account of their work, and frequently found themselves credited with less than was due according to memorandum kept by themselves. Another grievance was that wages were paid by check instead of cash, by which practice much trouble was caused to themselves and families. An increase in prices was also demanded.

On the second day of the strike, three firms, employing about one-half of the total number on strike, agreed to the terms submitted-that is to say, a rise in the price scale, payment in cash instead of by check, and the right to keep individual work books. These men returned to work after three day's idleness, and in the course of one week a similar agreement having been signed by the other manufacturers concerned, all were back in their places. One of the incidents of the strike was the drawing into the local union of all the workmen in two shops producing the same kind of garments, who were not members before. The wage loss as reported, was $2,200.

JANUARY 28-Eighteen steamfitters employed in the new High School building at Bayonne, quit work when all the radiators had been installed, refusing to connect them or continue at work unless paid $6 per day for five days a week, with no work on Saturday. The contractors declined to consider such a proposal and work on the structure was consequently very much delayed. A force of several non-union steamfitters was secured from outside places, but their presence irritated the other union mechanics, and on February 5th, the iron workers on the building went out in sympathy with the steamfitters, after the Board of Education had refused to interfere for their discharge. The overcrowded condition of the High School rendered the strikers' action in delaying the completion of the new building particularly ill-timed; the number of pupils in attendance was so far beyond the accommodations that many pupils studied in the hallways. The steamfitters were finally placated with a compromise which continued their wages at the old figure-$5.50 per day, but gave them a full holiday on Saturday. The wage loss is estimated at $2,000. The steamfitters strike lasted two weeks, and the ironworkers were out one week.

FEBRUARY I-One hundred and twenty-five hat sizers of the firm of Napier and Mitchell, Belleville, quit work because they had been refused an increase in pay of five cents per dozen. The firm claimed that the action of the men was a violation of their own laws, and also of the agreement existing between the firm and the national union, which provides that no cessation of work shall take place until the matter in dispute had been reviewed and decided by the board of arbitration. An appeal was therefore taken to the president of the national organization, who ordered the men back to work on February 7th, after six day's idleness. The wage loss was approximately $1,500.

FEBRUARY 3-The "beam hands" in the employ of the leather manufacturing firm, John Reilly, Inc., at Newark, asked for an increase in wages, which was promptly given; the ease with which compliance with that demand was secured made them-as explained by the firm, "unruly;" all were discharged and other men employed in their places. The discharged men, who

were members of Local Union No. 1 of Newark, proclaimed themselves on strike, and were joined by a number of beam hands from other tanneries, whose places were also taken by new men.

FEBRUARY 4-All the union workmen of various trades employed on the New York & New Jersey Telephone Company's new building on Washington street, Newark, quit work because of disagreements between themselves and members of Cement Workers and Helpers Union of the United States, who were working on the same structure. The trouble seemed to be over the desire of the cement workers to secure for themselves certain lines of work over which the masons claim exclusive jurisdiction. Work on the building was resumed on February 14, after the rival unions had satisfactorily adjusted their conflicting claims. In all about forty-seven men were idle eight working days, at an estimated wage loss of $1,400.

FEBRUARY 8-Forty-five male, and nineteen female weavers of the Victory Silk Company, Paterson, quit work because prices were not marked on tickets, which the company explained, had been unintentionally overlooked. Two days after the strike began a demand was made by the weavers for an increase in prices of two cents per yard. On February 14th, the weavers returned to work under an agreement which provided for the restoration of price tickets, and an increase of from one-half to two cents per yard, according to the grade of goods. The weavers were idle forty-five working hours, and the wage loss was $700.

FEBRUARY 14-Seven furnace men of the Trenton Smelting & Refining Company quit work because their foreman had been discharged, and demanded his re-instatement as a condition precedent to their return. Other men were promptly secured to take the vacated places and none of the strikers were re-employed. The firm gave as a reason for discharging the foreman, that he had utterly refused to recognize the authority of a newly appointed general superintendent of the works.

FEBRUARY 22-Seven men employed by the Mendle-Lunappe Company, manufacturers of embroidery, South River, quit work because the firm refused to advance their wages from $20 per week to $25. Four days after the strike was begun, three of the workmen were reinstated on their own application. The places of the other four were filled by new men. Wage loss as reported, $84.

FEBRUARY 22-Eighty men employed in the Alba Lime Rock Quarry at Sparta Junction, quit work because no wages had been paid to them for six weeks work already performed. The men were employed by a contractor who it appears had abandoned the work without making any provision for payment of overdue wages. With the exception of a few Americans, all the quarrymen were foreigners, principally Hungarians, with some Slavs; these latter were principally responsible for the men's action in stopping work. The strikers remained about the quarry, occupying their old quarters, but made no demonstration against property. On March 5, the company paid the wages due from the contractor and work was resumed. The strike lasted thirteen working days, and the wage loss was approximately $1,200.

FEBRUARY 25-Twenty boiler makers of the William Graver Boiler Company, East Chicago, Ind., who were employed on the construction and erection of tanks at Constable Hook for the American Creosote Company. In stopping work the Graver employees were largely influenced by sympathy with union boiler makers of New York and vicinity who were then on strike; a further reason was that the job on which they were employed had been transferred to their firm by a concern at that time antagonistic to the union. The strike lasted three weeks, and, so far as its avowed purpose was concerned, no results were accomplished. The wage loss as reported by the Graver Company, was $3,800.

MARCH I-Forty employees of the Columbia Silk Company, Paterson, went out on strike because the management refused to recognize the union shop committee. The idea of forcing recognition was abandoned and all returned to work the same day. Wage loss as reported by the firm, $50.

MARCH 4-One hundred laborers employed in laying sewers at Bordentown, quit work because the contractor wanted to change the pay periods from semi-monthly to monthly. The contractor yielded and the strikers returned to work after one day's idleness. Wage loss, $150.

MARCH 7-A short lived strike-important only as showing the friction between unions over the question of jurisdiction and the consequent gradual development of a tendency to limit a man's right to work where he can find employment, even though he has a union membership card, occurred on the new building of the Union County Trust Company at Elizabeth. A gang of plasterers from New York, were ordered by a walking delegate of the local union to stop work on the ground that they were working outside the jurisdiction of the New York Plasterers Union. Local plasterers denounced the New York workmen as non-union, because they were not working within the territory covered by the New York charter. The Elizabeth workmen on the building refused to work, until the men from New York joined the local union. The New York men were willing to do this but were forbidden by a New York walking delegate, who decided that they could not be members of two unions. The local manager for the contractors swore out a warrant for the arrest of the local walking delegate, and that official on being arraigned before a magistrate agreed to withdraw his strike order, which, on his release, was done, and work on the building was continued thereafter without interruption.

MARCH 9-One hundred and seventy silk weavers of the Dougherty & Wadsworth Co., Paterson, quit work because the mill superintendent declined to discharge four non-union men, or to put any pressure on them for the purpose of inducing them to join the union. After the weavers had left the firm caused notices to be posted in all workrooms of the mills, stating that no discrimination would be made in favor of one class of employees as against the other, and that their standing in the mill would in no wise depend upon their affiliation with or independence of unions. The shop committee in its turn declared that the strike would be continued until the firm agreed to employ local union labor only. The strike was not extended to other departments of the mill in which work continued as usual; new

men were employed to replace those who had gone out. The strikers, however, soon began the practice of "picketing" the mill, interfering with new employees, and otherwise hampering the company's freedom of action.

On April 14, a bill was filed in the Court of Chancery by the firms, praying for an injunction restraining the Silk Weavers Union No. 607, the Silk Loomfixers and Twisters Benevolent Association of Paterson, together with one hundred or more former employees from interfering in any way with the business of the company, either by intimidating employees engaged since the strike took place, or doing damage of any kind to the buildings occupied by the firm. The matter was argued before a Vice-Chancellor by counsel representing the firm, the unions, and the striking weavers, and on April 28, the Vice-Chancellor granted an injunction against fifteen of the strikers named in the order, who were shown to have, from time to time, been concerned in the interferences with its employees complained of by the firm. The Vice-Cchancellor stated that if later it should be found that the unions or either of them were responsible for any act of violence, the injunction would be made to embrace that body.

At the date of this writing (August 10), the strike was still unsettled, and only a comparatively small part of the plant was being operated with new help. The wage loss as reported by the firm from the commencement of the strike March 9, to date of writing, was $70,000.

MARCH-9—Two hundred of the 250 motormen and conductors employed by the Trenton Street Railway Company, quit work because a request they had made for a change in the running schedule which would allow them regular hours for rest and meals had been denied by the officials of the road. Three days before the strike, the claims and propositions of the car-men were submitted in the form of a written communication to the superintendent of the road. These were in effect as follows: Ten hours to be completed in twelve consecutive hours to constitute a day's work; twenty-three cents per hour to be the wages of conductors and motormen; all future grievances to be adjusted by an arbitration committee of three men, one representing the car-men, another the company, and an impartial third person to be chosen by these two; all employees discharged for joining the recently formed union of car-men to be reinstated in their old positions.

Some manifestations of disorder marked the progress of the strike which lasted three days; cars run at long intervals by old employees of the road and by some new men brought from outside places to replace the strikers, were stoned at points on the line where crowds of strike sympathizers had congregated; but the situation was kept well in hand by the police, and with the exception of these few attacks on empty cars, there was no rioting or destruction of property. On March 12, an agreement was ratified by both sides under which practically everything demanded by the car-men conceded by the company. The wage loss was estimated at $750.

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MARCH 11-Five employees of the Antique Mosaic Glass Company, Perth Amboy, quit work because a fellow workman had been discharged for cause. Next day these men returned but were not allowed to resume work, the reason for the refusal as given by the firm being that they desire to gradually close down the works at Perth Amboy with a view to moving the plant to another city. The wage loss as reported, was $15.

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