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:THE OREGON JOURNAL,- PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 100.
LEATHER WORKERS
OUT ON STRIKE
Employers Refuse to Sign , Agreement for Com-
ing Year and All. Shops Will Close Mon
.day Hinor Questions Only at Issue
POOL rooms m
. TO BE CLOSED
KAYOS AWWOUWCES THAT BIS
XDXCT aoaxwst'txess akd blot
HACKXITES IS TINAi X.OCAX. QA.M
BiESS BX.AMS APPLEGATE TOS
"BUTrnra xh."
Fninmr ta induce their employers to
sign the yearly agreement by 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, nearly every leath
erworker la the city walked out and a
strike has now practically been ; de
clared. ' '.
The men In the employ of the P. 3.
Cronln ; company have been: on strike
nearly all ' week. Hut there are only
even of them, and they went out be
cause non-union men were being em
ployed. Tomorrow there will not be a
union man at work In any of the shops,
and 180 leatherworker will be idle. The-
firms which will be affected are the
Breymali Leather company, the John
Clark company, the George Lawrence
company, the P. J. Cronln company and
the J. P. Sharkey leather house.
The now agreement t;whlch the em
ployes prepared and presented for sign
ing is very similar to that which lias
been in force during .the past year.
"With tha exception of a few minor Items
It is said to be Identical with the old
agreement., ' One of the . larger em
ployers said last night: . .u. ..
"The great stumbling-block . standing
In. the way of a,speedy settlement of the
trouble Is tha rivet -strap work. , We
contend that it should be dona by the
whltA InUBn'ow v. a n Minim
that they are entitled te do it. They
claim that it ought to be Included in
the regular piece work.' A special meet
ing la arranged for Monday forenoon,
and I think the matter will be am
icably settled. We will confer with the
union .committee at that time, and I
am confident that we will be able to
reac.h a satisfactory agreement.'' In the
meantime there will be no work done
Monday. We have given all of our men
a full holiday.' .tr-
"W will not sho up for work again," '
said one of the prominent union men,
-"until the differences have been ''satis
factorily adjusted.' Only a few of us
remained in the shops yesterday after
noon, and that was for the purpose of
finishing up some piece work which
could not very ; well be neglected. A
rousing meeting was held, at which it
was unanimously . decided that no one
would be permitted to report for work
until the agreement had been signed.
. "In reality there Is not very much be
tween us. It consists mostly of a few
little stipulations that the public would
not understand If apprised of them. It
has reference more to piece work than
anything else. .Wa are nr complaining
of wages or hours. The minimum scale
for harnessmakors is $2.75 for a nine
hour day, and fi for saddlemakers. Of
course, many of us get 11.60 and $5 a
day. . '
' "The men who struck at the : P. J.
Cronln shop have a different grievance.J
They( were being rorcea to work wun
non-union men. - One of them formerly
belonged to the union, but he left the
city a. few years ago and but recently
returned. . When he came back he re
fused to have anything to do with or-
gantzed labor, but be was put to- work
in the shop, along with the other men.
Another employe , ' at the shop is a
teamster and knows nothing about the
leatherworker : trade,. ','.. The unionists
could put up with the situation no long
er and walked out Several of the firms
have expressed a willingness to sign ufr,
nd I do not look for a long struggle."
' Last summer the leatherworker asked
for a reduction of' one hour from a day's
work. The employers refused to accede
to theli demands and several of the
Bhopg. were .closed down. At the end of
a week, however, the men won out They
did not call it a strike, but said the time
was .spent in making negotiations,. The
employers stated that they were giving
their , men a week's holiday. ,
Both aides are confident that the
trouble will be of very short duration.
They state that conferences will be held
until an amicable settlement is reached,
and they are inclined to believe that this
will occur very shortly.
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Q. M. Carey, of the commissary de
partment f the Pullman company, has
f-eturned from a visit to his old home in
Mansfield, Ohio, where he was formerly
employed as ticket agent by the Bal
timore & Ohio. He reports that people
throughout the country are talking in
X eneral of coming to the Lewis and
'lark exposition. - .... . J .
"You hear a great deal more in the
Cast about the Lewis and Clark fair
than you do of the St Louis . fair,"
said .Mr, Carey. "The Bt Louis fair
does not stand well with, the people,
while all seem anxious to go to the
Lewis and Clark show. The people of
that section of the country are just
getting alive to the fact that the Pacific
coast is the greatest in resources, and
many will come to the exposition never
to return. J look for a great attendance
at the fair from the states in the Mis
sissippi valley, for the low rates will
enable the people to see the v great
Northwest and the fair at one and the
same time. '. St Louis has no attrac
tions for them, but the Lewis and Clark
fair has a two-fold one. Looking at
It from this standpoint the St. Louis
fair will not injure the exposition to
be held In. Portland."
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"I mean ' to see that the ordinance
losing poolrooms is enforced," said the
mayor yesterday afternoon. "The pool
rooms will be obliged to close, and if
they refuse to do so they will be fined
so generously"that they will understand
we mean business., I .mean to give them
five days' notice, and after that an ar
rest will follow each opening of tha
rooms, if it be once a day. - -
"I understand that the slot machines
are being taken out," the mayor contin
ued. "All that are not out in five days
Will be destroyed. .., L have given the
chief of police . notice to that effect
The slot machine is a losing game for
the man that plays it. and there is no
room for games of that kind In Port
land." "If the mayor says he ordered us to
close up it must be so," said Peter
Grant, owner of the Portland Club. "I
have not heard that he made such a
statement So far as Mr. Applegate's
poolroom is concerned. I have nothing
to do with him. I have no doubt but
that. If the papers keep hammering away
at' this proposition they will succeed in
accomplishing somethingthe Lord only
knows what for I am sure I don't -
"No establishment in this city has
ever been givon permission by the au
thorities to open a poolroom. Our pool
room is a part of our establishment and.
has existed as long aa the place. We
took it for granted that the fines im
posed on v us included the poolroom.
Mayor Williams has asserted time and
time again that the present situation
wa tolerated only because of local peo
ple being engaged exclusively in tire
gambling and poolroom business. He
has declared that too more places of the
kind would tee tolerated, and that out
siders would not be permitted to enter.
I believe he intends to keep his word.
To my certain knowledge Seattle men
are now awaiting the outcome of Ap
plegate's effort 1 If he succeeds in
breaking in. there is no doubt that' they
will come over here in a swarm. ;
"The town was quiet before Apple
gate arrived. If he were a man of mod
erate means and made this venture win
or lose, it would be different But he
Is a man of wealth, and the common
opinion is that it was unsportsmanlike
of him to disturb a peaceful situation
when he was making money elsewhere.
It looks now as if jangling and strife
would result I wish it plainly under
stood that -the Portland Club la making
no fight against Applegate. The au
thorities are the people with whom he
has to deaL If they are unwilling for
Applegate to conduct a poolroom here,
he is likely to have a rocky road."
The Portland Club poolroom was run
ning full blast yesterday afternoon,
"Just what was meant by the council
adopting such an ordinance is more
than I am prepared to say at this moment,1-aaid
-Colonel Applegater "Sev
eral constructions might be placed on it
but I ,am inclined to think that the
Idea of the ordinance is merely to pro
vide for a system of fines, I do not be
lieve there will be any vigorous object
tion to our doing business here.1 A
"One thing is certain; there is nothing
la this talk about .enforcing the law
against me alone or of keeping me out
of business here. Mayor or no mayor
council or no council, I "will either con
duct a pool-room or nobody else shall.
If the mayor tries to enforce the law
against me I will in turn see that it is
enforced against the Portland Club. We
either operate together in Jh future or
there will be no pool rooms here. '
"I desire to add that it will be impos
sible to collect one fine from us and a
lighter one from the Portland Club. An
official record is kept of those tlMngs.
I think that it would be foolish for the
Portland Club to exhibit any active hos
tility to us. Experience has shown that
a town Is always better when it can af
ford two poolrooms. People drift back
and forth and new ; players are con
stantly created. I know the Portland
Club people personally and. am satisfied
they are of the right sort"
I. L. Hildebrand, the partner of Col
onel Applegate, spoke along the same
lines. He was optlmlstio so far as the
ultimate results of opening the pool
rooms are concerned, : Colonel Apple
gate will leave for San Francisco, where
he usually spends hla winters, within a
few days, as soon as "things are in run
ning order," and from there will make a
trip to his home at Louisville, Ky.
A majority of the Blot machines were
running yesterday. In only one or two
places had the machines, been moved,
and then ey were merely turned to the
wall lnsteau.of being taken from the room.
Whenever the chief issues the order
to close, the machines under our control-will
close," said S. Morton; Conn,
one of the largest slot-machine operators
In the city. "I have heard nothing of
the -matter except what I have read In
the newspapers, but I understand from
the reports that we will have to close.
"I can only speak for myself, but if
the order comes It will be observed to
the strictest letter by me. I believe in
the laws and the strict enforcement of
the same, and I will not have to be told
the second time." , .
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