The evening world. Newspaper, August 17, 1901, Page 3

u “ohlef factors that ——— The Manufacturers’ As- saciation Have Now Changed the Phrase- ology of the Agree- menti Which it Sent to} the Employees Call-) ing for a Reduction of: |64Per Cent.—Not soi Easy to Get the Re- of quired Number Spindles as it Was Thought. MR. BORDEN WILL ‘REMAIN INACTIVE. Mr, Mfathew C. D. Borden, the Independent Fall River mill owner, whoae interview in The Eventing World yesterday ex- posed the object of the Mant factuewrs’ Association, pro’ that they: ordered a cut In wages in onter to force a strike and thus scurtail the overproduction, was asked this morning tf he Intentled to follow his own pre- Z cedemt off 1897 and increase He repited: 1 do nothing in reference to my wage sched- ule, If I had contemplated aucly.a move I should have now known, tha: how- I thoroughly db cut wa a. The only way for these mil owners to mect he present aituntion, which is simply thi of a slatted market, In to dimin amount of producti tocmake fewer good $5904 05-400-0.505.6-2: @pectal to The Evening World.) Gpecial to The Evening Wark.) FAW RIVER, Mass, Aug. 17.—The Manufacturers’ Araociation showed to- Gay the firet-sign of weakening tn its campaign ¢o cut operatives’ wages 15 Per cent. to provoke a strike. It began changing the phraseology of the origi- nal agreement for a reduction, which {t Presented to the manufacturers for six- natures. At the meeting when the cut in‘ wages was voted there were repre- sented 1,260,000 spindles, and to make the cut operation signatures represent- ing only 30,00 more spindles were nec- essary. The men engineering the deal had no Goubteof their ability to secure the neceasary ‘signatures. Under ordinary conditions the plhn would have been carried through with- out @ Mitch, but in this inctance pub- Uelty and public sentiment have neld the other mill treasurers back, and there are many indications to-day that the whole echeme against the wage schedule will ultimately fail. ‘Mill managers have deen notined by attorneys that the high-handed pro- ceeding thay have attempted will not invalidate existing contracts which call for delivery of goods after Sept. 3, and that the buyers in New York and else- where can ‘hold them to strict complance or have adequate ground for damage suits, This te the chief reason why the pro- moters of the cut are backing and Mill- ing. They appeared not at all unwilling & break contracts with cloth consumers where no penalty attached, but ther evidently do not care to break ihem If they are to be held Hable. In en endeavor to find a way out of the fegal tangle the members of the As- sociation are holding daily sessions. They refuse to discuss the situation, but are visibly losing ground. Next Thursday the membem of the Loom-Fixers’ Union, the Carders, Weav- ers, Slasher-Tenders ani Mule-Spinnern will meet to act upon the recommenda- tion of the Textile Council that they strike {f the 15 per cent. cut is at- tempted. While the action of these unions can be told in advance, the meetings will be {mportant because at them the leaders will show what motives prompted tie manufacturers and how the cut will af- fect the 15,000 women and children who work in the mills, For a Monster Demonstration. The demonetration of the mill workers against the attempted reduction of wages will be one of the greatest ever witnessed here. Rich's Theatre, the largest in the city has been engaged for the meeting Thursday night. It will be inadequate to hold the crowds of Operatives who desire to protest against the cut ,and outdnor meetings will be necessary. The labor leaders who are conservative and business like, want to make of this meeting a presentation of thelr side af the case and to receive from the operatives much an endorse- ment of their stand in the present etrug- ‘gle that mill treasurers will be forced to accept it as final. + Me army of operatives, encouraged by: the plain words of M. C. D, Borden, are firmly convinced that thelr fight is More than half won, and they say that under no'circumstancea will they take the Inftiative for a conference, nor will they accept any reduction in wages. Their stand on these two points and the attitude of Borden are the two have caused terror in the camp of the manufacturers, E@ect of Borden Interview. Mr. Borden's interview in The Evi ever approve of auch a ® QDDDOQOOO}DHHDOSGAOAOOSHOOQIOS tives, know that: Mr.-Borden succinctly stated the case and plainly worded some facts the association hoped would not be brought to the attention of the Public. Tho manufacturers were deeply concerned In Mr. Border tion than were the operatives. Mem- berd of the exeoutive committee of the Manufacturers’ Association while in ses- sion were shown the interview, and it had thp effect of a bombshell and has Aroused a great deal of resentment. The members say that Mr. Borden's asner- tion that the manufacturers want to Precipate a atrike is untrue. His inter- view leaves the impression t the majority of manufacturers are inclined to cut wages without a cause oon- sidered adequate and justifiable. This {a resented by the operators. But while much eriticiam ta being passed upon Mr. Borden, it Is generally admitted that the operators will hold another meeting next Monday for the purpose of moderating thelr terms. It In the general feeling to-day th publicity of their schemes will f the association to recede from Sts un- tenable position, and later on to adopt one or the other of the plans which the mill workers will accept. They will not do this at once, how- ever. They are still trying to secure the signatures of mill owners to the Agreement to reduce, and they will nectire the requisite 1,[4),0% xpindies, Later on they are expected to recede unless the extremists who started the attack on the payrolls continue to con- trol. As a result of the expore the 30,00 cotton mill operatives are almont certain to win thelr fight against the cotton manufacturers’ asnoct In the pro- posed cut of 15 per cent. In wages. In eu of the proposed cut the manu- facturers will Ikely have to adopt one of two plana— First—To # ¢ down the mille until the surp! stock of print goods has been worked off, Second—To rum the mills f dayn cach week until the baying orders justify running full force and fall time. Elther of these two plans will he ac- cepted by the operatives, although elther expedient would work haniship to. them, But they will not ask the association to adopt ether plan. They will ask for no conference, but will meet the mill men if they are requested to. THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1901. BEG A GROUP OF FALL RIVER STRIKERS, iH Wrong. inl statement of the / and {t ts an authorized ne attitude of the army | This of the Mule Spinners’ Unton, A cut In wages woul smplish the end aimea “In Wages and still run t out the same a Macturers tend that to cut e mille, turning unt of cloth every day, situation? ne contention of the men engineering movement, We Insist that there must be a cur- tallment or the mills must be worked only four sin the w “Either plan would hurt the workers in the mills, but we would hav without a murmur, for we ha in our dealings guarded the interes the manufacturers. “We could manage to live with mills running four daya a week, bi would be close work. “Mr. M. C. D Borden has stated the situation in a nutsh and has con- firmed our post every. polnt President Joseph Tansey, of the Tex- tile Council, and of the Carders Union, said: stated the facts bluntl The mill workers ¢ But we knoW that to run the mills at reduced wages, stil making the same output, Is a ridiculous proposition and impractical, The print cloth manufacturers are alm- ply trying to throw upon us the burden of closing the mills, a responsibility they shirk themselve: Secretary Joseph Bla Jackson, jer Tenders’ Unton, said: YERKES IN A DEADLOCK. Magnate ¥inds that George Went inghouse In a Good Fighter, ONDON, Aug, 17.—While Charles T. Yerkes has gone to Budapest to inves- tigate the Ganz electrical system on behalf of the District Railroad, George | Westinghouse, who aalled for > to-day on board the Ameri steamer St. Paul, has gone hom in the Interest of American capital of the Metropolitan Underground Railroad pantos, It now appears that thero have beeen no differences between Mr, Yerkes and the English owners of the Metropolitan ‘World was read by thousands in Pee River. It caused the Executive Com- mittee of the Manufacturers’ Associa- tion to hold an executiva session, and then:to refuse to discuss it in any way, on the ground that Mr. Botden may. not ‘Rave been correctly) qui But the manufacturers, as well the’ opera- | more ‘ Rallroad; but the contest Is between the two Americans for the control of elther or both of the roads, Mr, Westinghouse, though not known here as a large atock- holder of the Metropolitan Railroad, has the confidence of the managers and suggested schemes for the road that took! hola oftheir imagination as far than Mr. Yerkes’ and the deadlock between these com-! LIKES MURPHY. ITS CITIZENS PRESENT WITH AN ALBUM. AIM Say He Has Done Much for Them in Both Police and r Departments. Col. Murphy was tn a good jymor FAR ROCKAWAY. | when he reached Police Headquarters to-day, He brought with him a hand- gomely bound album containing a set of reaciutions adopted ny. the property- Owners and:residents of Far Rockaway elogizing the Police Commissioner and |. THEIR PLOT EXPOSED, THE COTTON KINGS ALREADY IN Te | i Or ed the arbitrary re ved four distinet was the announce: tes of the five ‘ould fight the cut and Numbe, from + was the unanimous action the Textile Coune!l {ndorsing our, and and making no request for a cor.- nee, Number three was Mr, Borden's plain atement of the obvious fact that the janufncturers were trying to force us » atrik Numbe public four was the discovery that ntiment was u Ny with us and tha ny of the mill treasurers are opposed to the plan “And they will be stlil further shocko! ts Sept. 3 draws near,” Manufacturers Meet. The genesis of the reduction ment ts Interestin, Elghteen members of the Cotton Man. ufacturers’ Association, representing print cloth mills, which make the poor- est and coarsest fabrica put on the mar- ket, met in executly Seven- teen of them voted Those move- present at fhe me were Col, Thomas J. Borden, John D. Flint, John Slade, who are the presidents of N. B. Borden, J. E. .C. C Rounne, 2. J, French, 1. W. Brown, Abbott H.W. Tinkham, H. 8, Fenuer, dward Shove, D. A, 1, A. Brayton, T. E. Brayton ns, all repreaenting corporations aa treasurers, The mills not represented were: Ark- wright, Barnaby, Border City, Bourne, Chase, Conanieut, Davol, Fall) River Iron Works, Flint, Granite, Hargraven, ker, King Phillp, Osborn, Seaconnet, and Stevens, Of th Iron Worke, Bourne, Seaconnet, t. Barnaby, Flint, Parker and Har- es are not In the association. Tho easurera of the King Philip, Osborn, Davol and Stevens did not care to at- tend the meeting, although they wore in the Vicinity of the meeting place: The treasurers of the other mills were out of town, Some of the treasurers of milin refuse to be forced Into a false position and wit not sign, Others are willing to cut wages, but do not want a strike. “vamily Mitta? The elghty-seven cotton mills of this Brayton, and Willlam E he has done for s the head of the tice Department and as President of » Board of Health, The album was promnted to Col. Mur- phy at hinvhyme last night. James EF. Kelly, wh» was the chairman of t committee that waited on Col. Murphy, said: “Wo have taken this Mberty of call- Ing upon you, at the request of your Neighbors and friends, those taxpayers who have owned property here for more than four years. There friends realtze that to your energy and aggreasivencas they owe much, It In thelr desire that you should know of the love they feel for you, and to that end, asa lasting token, they have compiled this set of resolutions, to which those at present at home have added thelr signatures, and ask you to accept them with a WEAKEN. {stock In many tnatances family Idx stock in half a dozen mills, The embere are officers dn one mill and | Manchester ai {to better advantage than Fall River, | of the mill managers have but one rem- ‘Strikers with Starva-| tion Staring Them in, the Face, Will Com- | promise, but Propo-| sal Must Come from| the Employers--Big, Dividends forakamily, Mills.” : wholly the $i of manu r was pur in| town are owned almost apital vested int h from the raw cotton men who live here. There are n few very wealthy familtes | and estates who hoid the ma} the ore in another and heavy stock In vartous | apactties; thelr Imm e relatives are carried on vartous pay-roile’ at fancy sand when dividends are de ely aking H affair, It tsa ¢ win Hen the #0 tr this Fr families own a majors of the stock These anagers are unable to meet the competitio; clothmakers In [the other y Engiand cotton manu- facturing centres, because the mill tre rers in the field of competi are keen men who known thelr busine and hold thelr jobs through competency | and fitness. | So Fall River Is beaten tn the race to market tte Sinished pr cts, Lan |New Bedford, Providence, Blacksto: | Valley, Lawrence, Lewiston, Plymouth, 4 other competitive points pay practically the same make the same class of goods and sell That this ts true Is borne out by the fact that nowhere else in New England at this time fs there any talk of cutting wages. Fall River's rivals are running ful} blast and selling their cloth at prices that net them handsome dividends, Clip Coupons and Wage: In two things only have the “family * management of Fall River shown A ability, They are expert coupon ers and past masters in the art of cutting wages, It is asserted In Fall River that some edy—one panacea for the film of the cat- ton manufacturing Industry—that ts to cut down the wages of the operatives. If a bad season brings a reduction of dividends a wage cut {!s proposed. If the mills have manufactured more than they can sell, they cut the wages of the operatives to make up for overprod tlun, If competition becomes keen and the Icca! “family mills”? feel the effects & mcvement {ts Inaugurated at once to redu There Is one other remedy which they ayply tor alt small fils, such as cost of new yachts or seasons at New- port and Narragansett. ‘That te ty close the mills for from four to ten weeks at a time, forcing the operatives to remain Idle, to lose their wuxes fur the entire period of the shut- down and to spend thelr accumulated savings to Mve until the mill owners geo ff to start up again. The mill operatives nave just gone through a alege of thia sort, as late as June and July of thin year, i ren This Indictment of the busines! methods of the mili owners ts on th tongue of every business man in River. He talks It op 1 to the casual deeply, too, because he as the’ poor operative by su But this indictment. te hes th milln run on the “family” plan. It does Rot apply to the mills ma ed by petent men. The oMclal compilation of the dtvi-| denda of Fall River mills for last year | san Jnteresting document. Dig Dividend Aside from its showing of mous dividends It Is possible to make, shows how unjust ts the propose cut of one-seventh of the wages Bf the men, women and children who work {m, the ‘mills. In the lint of dividend earners are: ‘The American Linen Company....., 614 per cent facturing Company percent | h methods. | Der cent te per cent Sagamore Manutanturing Co per cent Ax dividends go in New England, 5 pe cent. IN a good return upon an Invest- me re than that The Koch Inhalations Curéd Mrs. Anna Raden of Consumption. 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