Show if GREAT Ai STRIKE I IS r tW Ow THREATENED j international Association of or Machinists M Will Tie Up the tile Shops of the Country Conferences Between Labor Leaders and ant Manufacturers of Chicago Failed to Settle Difficulties f ci March arelt ASter the tha conference bf n rep of or the th Inter Int j Association of or Machinists and the thi administrative council of the National i Hal Trades Trad u soo won ended at 1030 I this thi m Prudent James Jam Jm OConnell of ff r ih lh h union declared that strikes would IM 1 1 i immediately in all ail i parts arts art of or the I 1 i n i States StU S and Canada Such Ilch uch strikes nouli wull ul 1 in Teen mon on and cause to be bo shut hut il wn for an time plants I in an aggregate ato capacity ty of millions I of If dollars chic Chi Ih ago laju labor trouble are responsible re for I th li a which ia ii expected ex ted to pro L a 6 the general machinists machIni tW strike I Arbitration Abandoned I I II Ir A n r it not fbI for tor the fact fot toot leaden of or I Ith th union refused to call oft off tb th strike that now in il 0 O and Patson N J the tho manufacturers and find the tha loaders leader It Is be 00 beM M I would have lve come to tut sn n amicable 8 nt and arid arbitration would have bu n permanently established bed between the t il Metal Trades association and th International Association A of Machin Machinist Th member s of oC the tho executive board bod of the th ts union however refused to toi i call ill all off ort the Chicago strike as they de do iian 1 that If It they did the tho th Chicago local from the International In aso elation When the refusal of the I s to o end the th strike wa w a presented to the tho they tM issued an ultimatum 11 t the 1111 labor eft and ami am on their refus to to its lt provisions all negotiations R era eru broken off oft To Call Osil O ll Strikes at Once I Before ying th the rooms in Ia the Joint conference was held President Pre ident James OConnell of the international union declared d that the union would be ho begin hogin gin immediately to call strikes in all alt parts of or the country countr The first of these thelle strikes will be called calle In Cleveland O 0 After all large laige clUe cities have hae been tied up strikes will be b called In the machine shops bops ops of all ull th railroads in the country nl r of ot the following firms wor present prent ent at tie the conference Erie Iron I Works Erie Pa Watson Vatson Stillman corn com l ui thy UlY Indianapolis com oem J pan pany an Cincinnati Oaten Gates Iron Works Chi J lago g American Tool Toot Machine y Boston u ton tt 11 company Bon Bee ton tili belaud L laud Falkener INtroit Detroit enor company compan Quincy JILl IHa Fred 1 Chicago l Jward iward P F Allis r mpa ny Mil wauKee Wagner Manufacturing Na company St t Louis Praz er or Chalmers Chicago and England Englan Lidgerwood Manufacturing company Brooklyn Pump Jersey Proposals Fail After meeting mooting In separate conferences all the afternoon the tha manufacture and the labor leaders begun began a joint meeting at atS 8 S p m in at which tha thu manufacturers sub submitted submitted mUted to the tho machinists a proposal propoS for arbitration They asked that all strikes and lockouts be bo called off orr pending the arbitration of the tho difficulties by a com corn committee consisting con of the presidents of the two organizations and anti two members from each association whose hoe decision shall be accepted as final On the second proposition the two asso associations wore were united The labor loaders refused to agree to tire th first proposition prop and submitted a demand for immediate and separate arbitration of ot the Chicago difficulties This the manufacturers re To refused fused to ratify and the conference broke up both sides making what amounted to toa tono toa a no formal declaration of ot war The declaration declaration declaration of the tho machinists took the form of threats of or an Inte strike made by b President and Organizer Reed Heed N Are Off The Tha manufacturers then t n presented pr S their side of the question in t set of resolutions In Which they declared that the tho form of joint agreement a cement day unanimously adopted by the tho administrative council of the National Metal Trades association and presented to the executive officers of the tko International Association of Machinists is the best and only proposition which the National Metal Trades association has to tomake tomake tomake make and toot that th the committee again pre pro presents seats the agreement of the executive corn com committee ff e to the ei International er Association ift of Machinists and requests m to accept the same by b affixing their th official signa signatures signatures tures and notify thorn them th m that this association tion ton Is ready to sign tho the agreement jointly with them The union of ot the International Association Association Association tion of or Machinists met today and en the action of the officers In view of the failure of all efforts for fora a settlement for a machinists strike National President James OConnell OC an announced announced announced tonight that the last details of ot l lans for calling a national strike this week of union machinists were w re be in ing perfected Mr rr hail had put himself in com corn during the day with the local with several of the big cities clUes east eoas and wt w t He declares that all Is In m readiness for tor a general walk out be I fore foro April 1 L I |