Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1919 — MONON STRIKE COMES TO END [ARTICLE]

MONON STRIKE COMES TO END

SHOP WORKERS WENT BACK TO WORK THIS TUESDAY MORNING. :-j.M The strike at the Monon shops, which began last Thursday was settled Monday afternoon, following a conference that had taken place with the'officials of the Monon railroad. The men reported for work this morning at 7 o’clock. The stationary engineers and firemen at the shops went to work Monday night on the third track, li p. m. to 7 a. m., in order to have everything in readiness for the other men on thefcr •return this morning. At the mass meetdnf, held Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock, nine hundred men assembled at the club rooms and voted unanimously to return (to work this morning. The action was taken on the advice of B. M. Jewell, president of the railway department of the A. F. of L., at Washington, D. C. Frank Paquin* of Kansas City, Mo., and G. F. •Stevens, members of the protective board, who had sent messages Sunday urging the men to return to ' work. The meeting Monday morning •between the committee representing (the strikers and Mr. Cafiison was a very harmonious one and the best of feelings prevailed during the conference. It was stated yesterday that the strike ballots received from Washington, D. C., would be distributed and all would be returned to Washington by August 24. If the government does not meet the demands of the men, and a majority of the ballots are for a strike, a nationwide strike will go into effect on the morning of September 2. R. A. (Davis, of (the Monon shops boilermakers, and Wilmer Cahill, of the Monon shops machinists, will return to Washington to look after the interests of the local craftsmen and twill assist in counting the strike ballots. The committee reported that some personal matters other (than, wages were satisfactorily adjusted (between the committee and Mr. Callison.