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Show ABRICHTOUTLOOK For the Workinsmen of Our Land. WAGES BEING RAISED Volunt.irly by Employers A Good Omen Old and Idle Plants are Resuming-Work Resuming-Work But Few Serious Strikes are Looked for This Season. New York, May 14 United States Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright was at the F'ifth Avenue hotel laBt night. Speaking of labor matters over the country, he said: "I have been censured somewhat for a remark attributed to me. I was quoted as saying that in my estimation there wauld be no strikes this summer. It was simply a misconstruction. The idea I wished to convey when I made the statement was that there would be no strikes this summer that would assume the proportions or importance of the labor troubles last summer. Of course, theie will, in all probablity, always be strikes, but I think they will amount to very little this summer." Referring to the recent strikes in Cb-casro, which resulted in violence, Mr. Wright said: "I do not think the labor troubles there will be of any great duratiou or proportion. Of course, I don't want to talk of the causes, or who is ritht and who is wrong; but fiom my own observations I think thai the Chicago trouble wili be speedily adjusted. One thing which plea es me greatly is tlie voluntary raising of wages in western Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia and that confidence in the future peems to be fully restored. As a result of this. |
