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R DER... 5 (z _ E. ii ,. 6% -â€"- --.â€"â€"-.-_r W '5. 7f i‘l-lf A362. runner)". APRIL 8rd. 1902 ‘â€" 750. a Year In Advance :â€" 8! If not so Pal awesomeness To HAVING CAUSED THE JAMESON RAID AND HAVE GONE 0N STRIKE mm” â€"+â€"-â€"_ M gmlty of causing the .1. them”; April they intended to present us and, through it. thl‘. [ax-Mg; with a document to be signed recogâ€" African war, have been m2138‘ the union and conceding to a good deal of boom“- m- “up“. other demands. I told them that ,it either less Well informed .01 i‘l'wludlC: would be well for us to understand ed in favor of Mr. Rllntlt-s. .\ deg- each other then. and that I would-patch 10 the Mail and Empire views not sign any 811011 document. LikeL up the point. It says : ly my telling them that brought Cecil Rhodes never publicly things to a’ climax earlier than they the reaSons why he nrgnnizm the .would have reached it else. Jameson raid. They ul’t‘ now set 'l‘he organiZer came here bill. I forth in his own words by one «,f hi9 Elllployel's and Strikers Talk told him that I Would not discuss blograp}1er,~.-_ Heguotm Mr. ILhodes Amt the the matter With him at all: that I as saying 3 “Thu"? \‘k't'l't': llll'm,‘ roasâ€" _ Cause and PTOS' did not recognize the union andlqns' , In the first place I found that m at the Trouble hence could not discuss my relations 01d hruger “315 an illsupmuble ob- . H‘â€" with my hands with a representative Stade to the union ”f Smith Africa, of the union. even for Commercial purposes. and Several months ago an item up- I have . anxious all along to Imtritrjdc hfihitiliiytxlzgf 0.1“. the Country. pear-ed in these columns to the effect serve the Interests of my employcs what you 1n~'\' c- ll 8%" I lm-u‘d "on that the journeymen tailors of the as well as our own. Some or them triples but itdw' s 'f "MN!“ “I prin- toY‘n were being formed into a have been my!“ from $10 to $14 long'as he l'tllr-(‘llhlli- {‘ifll‘f"; “I'M so union by Organizer Hugh Robinson. a week clear since kw“ September brake was {in ‘ ’ "hm-Sm?“ the Since then not much was heard of and working only 8 hours a day. I South Afric I on “H {Mo‘gwss ”1 the organization till a couple of was Willing as I have said’ to a. weeks ago. when it was rumored that negotiations were goingron between in- "The second reason w" ' ‘ _ , . . . us that there crease that, but I think it Would be was an Ellgllsh'sprmkiug “1].!“ij op- the tailors and their employers. and that if these negotiations did not end a mistake for us to have our men posed m Krugm. hm 1,1, as amicably they Would result in a subject to the dictation of a body much .. - . < _ ‘ _ opposed t) .m- 5., . that might 00111001 them t“ act dlf‘ under the British 7132!? luljlilr “2:: strike. On Tuesday last Mr. Robin- son again arrived in town and on {OFCDUY Wit-ll US from what they then a small lllllirfl'llfi. inn :1 vrrowâ€" Thursday morning the hands struck wanted to. I have been 1.. (lwl'clnp it Speaking Well y WOUId have become a majority. When in all the shops but that of Mr. Harry Morgan Who readily agreed to With the hour Call“? to get rid of Kruger stay- that Wollld have bullx’ud lho} 'lulitj.’ for the demands of the union, and that of Mr. Blair whose hands are not un- hodes raid .‘t >utl1 .xll ll_ll_‘C( CL: 1 0 Those who have held t'ei-il It Up Last Thursday ' 5mg}, Fresh 'Seeds as. come to hand, among them bemg' â€"---â€"'""""""" Maura-l. Thumb and they are worth every cent of the price . . Rape S I. asked, in fact we know our goods are, p ; ; sometimes worth a little more than th ‘ ' , . These seeds. are of the very .:: price asked. . ’ " highest germinating . - 1' ' being gOWEIImcnt tasted. We . ‘ ' , are sellm For examplégalsaqu galleahgtdgl tliaélgrgf I ‘ ' very lowgst fire? .at th " ESS 1“ S y ' m . I gerricc of which would be .SOc, but by e duality of goods. buying out the whole consignment we are able to sell them at per yard 35 Gen ts Not a house but some of its members will want one of these dresses. We call your special attention to this lot. lu‘o‘w ed power, ‘ Us We also quote a few prices of the fashion- " able Dress Goods for this season’s wear. VOlLEâ€"A fine French Crepe Dress Goods. in pale Grey, Cream, White, Green L25 and Blue, at per yard us or else they would not have ed. We are willing to discuss any which I had struggled all I‘ll\' lifeâ€"- feature of the question with them to make Solnh Afl‘lCu an 'ime-rral but not with the union, and my feel- Part of the British Empire, a ,Ena Hall on Williamg: _ :n Coma, Crockery d, lliam=sts. Brown and yells)! 35c, Team Colhfi, ' 1’3:th at 10¢ a plea. CE I,_.â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-',’:â€"’:“ ck-taking and u offer you. __‘___,/ 1 1:17 1 Black Eolienne-This is a thin silk gauze 3 effect. one of the newest and nicest l 25 light weight Fabrics at per yard l Broadclothsâ€"Black and all colors, 50c to $1 ’ Veloursâ€"Onc of the most serviceable of i the light weight in Black and “c ~ Colored, per yard - Besides the above we have a full range of Cheviots, Homespuns, Lustrs, Henri- ctus, Grenadines, Sicilians, Pebble Cloth, Serges, etc. - We believe the best is the cheapest in “H the long run, and we‘strive to sell the best. WWW _’10U6fllll l-Mdlllll HORSE CLIPPERS WASHING MACHINES CLOTHES WRINGERS CHURNS. Etc- Lowest prices onall lmec' of Hardware ,n. _ _ _ McLENNAN-‘c Co, HARDWARE. COAL AND IRON SPRING SUITS When wanting a fashionable Spring Suit or Overcoat we have a full line of Suitinxs, Worsted: and Trouser-lugs at the lowest prices. See our BLACK and BLUE TWlLLS before buying else- where. " CASH and ONE PRICE, m... ; WM W51, I :WMWfiOWbO’WW’ O 0 1090’”: are lllilll Glllllml (leap m . . GOOD FURSâ€"The real thing in every way at a positively low - . PM. We have got to clear them out, even if we lose money by J. J 0 RICH 5° domg Although the car has been the biggest in our history, THE NOBBY TAILOR I“ we have a great manyygarmcnts left over that we must dis of ” We man. in order to make room for our Spring Hat Shipments. We sell only the best, and that at the lowest. MW Price Specials â€"3 Black- Astrachan Jackets, 36 inches long, were $35, now $25. -3 ‘Ladies- Wallaby Jackets. .were $25, now $20.. 0 â€"3 Electric Seal J ackets. (Al- ‘ aska Sable Collar'and 'Lapelp) . were $50, now $35. ; o’ .M:'O°:°O-3Q°:°O0N 03‘ c. . c O §._Nursery and Sick 4’ Room 'Requisites ' Our stock in this line is complete including .Sooth crs, Feeding: Bottles, Infant Foods, Powders, Puffs and Sponges. Sick Feeders, Invalid Foods, Restorativcs, Hot Water Bottla, all grada. Medicated Gauzs. ‘ Cottons, Plastcrs, and a variety of other goods too numerous to mention. , " â€"SOLD ATâ€" Dunoon’s DRUG STORE“ Next A. Campbell’s Gum ‘5 Men's_Cobn Coats, were 335' now 32a. sizes 44. 46 and 48- .4 éllstralizm Sable Capes were $10, now $10. ‘3 Black Astrach . an Cam, Were $16.50, now $12. 0 ‘5 Alaska Sable Mufis, were ”2-90. now $8.50. ‘6 Alaska Sable Mulls ‘13.50, now $10. ' â€"3 Ladies’ Fur were $20, $25 and $35- . Lamb Gauntlets,’ 0. now $350, ‘Ladim’ $91. 313.11 :6 Men’s Black Coats (Bishop) were $22.50. now $18.00. ' ‘3 Pairs Men’s Coon Mitts. were $6.50, now $4.50. â€"Special pricw for Ladiea’ Per- . Jackets made *0 workmanship “d The Canada Paint...Co. ~ ' nun-BRAND” READY mxw l’llllS in 1 1b., 2', ,., uart’; . as l ; N _ ~. .. J: . and: from . 1 . ,o .. I! .,, v r 0 ,1 Manufacturing Furriers, and flat ‘ "t-st.. ‘ things are done. 'where in 24 hours. ion men. Following are brief state- ments from both sides that throw some light on the situation. MR. ALEX. CATHRO was sitting reading the newspapar When seen by our reporter. He said : "I don't mind taking a week or two of holi- dnyS; I haven't had any for a long time and they will do me good. The strike is on and my men are out. I couldn’t help it. The terms they asked were impossible. They did not make reasonable demands. I believe in labor protecting itself. and belonged to the union myself in Scotland many years ago. I went through a strike. and know how thc‘se but I never saw such terms as my men have asked. Now I have been paying 810 a week to.my men who worked by the week and on that basis to those who did piece work. The union demandâ€" ed 811 a week for those hired by the week. That was. all right. I did not object to giving it. But they wanted the pay for piece work based on from 814 to $16 a week. I could not pay it. That would make it necessary to put up the price of a suit from 82 to 83. A cheap suit that I have had to pay $4.50 to get made would under the new rule cost me $7.50. Icouldn't sell suits at that advance. The fact is, anyway. that ready-made clothing business is grad- ually crowding out the tailor-made. Twenty years ago there were eight cutters in this town and 250 hands were employed in the tailor shops. Now there are sot 50 without the 200. Ready-made clothing is being worn by the best people and it is im- possible to make clothes in a tailor shop at all if the Wages have to go up so high. . I don't know how the strike wrll end, but I know that I shall not try to go on and pay what the men ask. There are shops in Toronto where suits are made after being cut. To- ronto tailors get work done inithem. I shall not be stuck for I can send my -work there 1100 if it becomes ne- Some of my, hands have been wrth me 18, 19 and 20 ybars. I have used them pretty well or they would not have stayed so long. I kept .up the wagon of some of them during dull times When hands in other stores had their pay reduced. But now. it seems I made a mistake in doing it. H. A. MORGAN is the only em oyer who acceded to the de- mands of the union. Mr. Morgan explained his position thus : Iam very glad a union has been formed and have no desire to oppose it. Through it a. better class of men can be got. The whole thing is a matter of wages and the union scale is very little higher than that I have been paying. When I came here I had to‘ pay more wages than the others to get men. I did not know what. the usual wages here were. I know what a fair rate war and the scale asked by the men won't make more than $15 a year difference t me. When I was in Guelph the em- pIchrs fought the union for two months and had to give in at. last. There are only two things for them to do here. They can ‘lock up their shops or yield to the union. They can't. get. their work done in out- side place. The tailors there that are any. good are union men. and Will not do work for a strike town and triker here can get “'0'“ eme' every 8 No other work- men are so well organized and hang ing now is that I will not employ a man Who belongs to a union. Meanwhile we are not sitting down but are trying to get men, and will get them if it is possible. We shall try also to make arrangements to have work done at outside points if necessary." MR. ROBINSON the organizer for the tailors' union and the man who several months ago organized the Lindsay branch Was in town for self- eral days endeavoring to get a set- tlement. and Watching the interests ‘ of the strikers. Mr. Robinson said: I am not here as an agitator but as a pleader. I Want to state the cam: for the boys and girls and see if arrange ments cannot be made that will put them in a better position. Mr. Fla- velle refused me an interview. I think he might. have at least shown me customary courtesy and talked the matter over with me. I went upstalrcdnto the Workroom and, I believe, narrowly escmied a collision with Mr. FlaVelle and his cutter Mr. McKnight. Of course it was Mr. Flavelle's store and I knew that when he saic 'Go' [ had better get out. I hear that Mr. Cathro Was talking to a lawyer. Well. I have [studied law myself and medicineâ€"I the. thought of entering those professions onceâ€"and I know the legal side of our case. If the employers go take any legal steps to get me out of town. I shall employ a lawyer too and play them their own game.” "What is the chief issue 1’” asked our reporter. "Wages is part of it" Robinson, “but the main thing is that the employers will not recog- nize the union and sign the scale it calls for. They say they will give so much for making a suit Costing a certain price, and so much more for those of higher price. Now that looks all right but my experience goes to show that it ends in con- fusion ; for the hands have no way of knowing What. a suit is sold at, and have to take the employer's word for it. That ends in trouble. Mr. Milne talked to me for a while and then got mad. and to talk to a man when he is mad is only a waste of hot air. The Wages are too low in Lindsay. Even the scale we presented is the lowest in- any town 'in Canada. But they will have to pay it. The tail- ors are Well organized and these emâ€" ployers will not be able to get men, nor yet, to get their work done else» wherefi They may get in a few “scabs" or “rats" as the printers call them. But when they send work away to be done we will find out where it is going and it will be sent back again. There is a sort of brotherhood in our union and when the time comes we put it into oper- ation. The hands are going to “in. They have the central organization behind them and get a dollar at day While the strike lasts. That is more than the girls get. when working, so they will be satisfied. We shall win, but when we see victoey coming our way we shall help it allover. ' MR. BLAIR is the only employer who has neither recognized the union nor had the hands go on strike. At his shop things went. on as if neither strikes nor unions existed. Mr. Blair said: "I am fectcd by this trouble at nil. or eight weeks ago I heard that a union was being organized and I went to my men and asked them said Mr. not afâ€" Seven together 50 W0" “5 twilo’?‘ what they were going to do about it. . W. FLAVELLE said .. “I than the men have made a mistake and will yet‘see that they have made it. * They asked us for more pay and W. oflcrc’d it, but we would not re- Ware union, We would not recognize it because we saw that.“ might prove an arbitrary organiza- V floutlut would disturb the pleasant relationsthat had existed ”3‘7”" 3‘30 mango tor-med item no They said they were going to have nothing to do with it, and they have kept their words. I would be glad to‘ pay more wages if it could be done but I dod't know of any way that it can. ’Rcady- madcs are a ‘big factor in the cloth- irg business and they keep down the Fruit that can be got for tailored goods. They have mine irr and gone out two or three tlnlec since I can “The third reason wasâ€"411% can-- not make revolutions in thew without money. and 1 had at mv command at that time a combination of millionaires ready to support me, whom I might never be able to get together again.’ " â€"~+~â€" Go West Young Man "There is as much chance for a. young man to make his fortune here in Totonto as there is in New York,’ said Mr. Charles Phillips of Phillips ' -‘ recentâ€" . : ()Ilpurlunltlo-> for success are greater’und more numer- ous there than here. the t'llilllCL‘F of failure are also gteuter. We hear of Canadians who haw- gone to the States and .‘lc‘lllel'vd great but we never hear anything those who are digging for a living. I believe the pleCe for n young man to Start for himself is in the West, where things are freer and people less consemtive." «lays sueress, about “U N S M the footwear. All we need is steady good times to see ‘the ready-modes go out again. The men have an easier time now than tailors had in times: I have known. They come to work about 8 and quit at 6 O'clock. I uSed to sit on the bench till 11 o'clock at night and have it called a day. I think tailors are doing fairly well, but, I would gladly See them do bet- ter, but. do not think'it possible Just‘now. MR. GEO. A. MILNE. When he heard that the union would demand more pay for their hands. had said he would meet the deluand as no- as possible. He belieVe-d in giving 'his employes as much pay as increased prices for the product Would permit. Of the strike Mr. Milne said : "I offered my hands pay that suited them all, but the union would not let them accept it. When the trouble began I made out what We Cull‘ a. bill of prices to be given for different sorts of work and parts of garments. In some cases 'it Was higher than the bill presented by the union. ['p till now the same price has been paid for making a suit Worth 525 as and Worth $15. The result was lhut the poor workman made more than the good one; because the dear goods were all given to skilled hands and required so much more work that. the poor hands Were able to get through with the cheap suits in a good deal shorter time than the skil- led men could the better ones. So they made more money. In my bill I adjusted that and as I have said my hands were satisfied but the union Would not let them ac- cept my offer so out they went. .I have a doZen suits partially done, some of them were to be done now ; some are paid for and men from a distance are coming after them to- day. I suppose I shall have to give their money back. , I don’t think we can get hands from outside. MR. T. C. HADDER is the presi- dent of the local branch of the Tail- ors' Union. He was foreman of Dundas Flavelle Bros.’ shop. He said : We are out on strike to get a uniform scale of pay for all the employers. I have no reason to complain with what we were getting from Dundas Flavelle Bros. Other shops did not, pay as much and it is for the sake of our fellow tailors in those shops that we who work for that firm are on strike. In fact m our case it is a lock-nut. for we told Mr. Flavelle we would give him till 10 o'clock Thursday to give Us an answer and on Wednesday CVening he took our keys. I alwiiys believed in the union, and be longed to one in the old country. A union shop gets better men and -is more pleasant to work in. The un- ion secures employers men of good character; for if a tailor is known to leave a place and defraud his em- ployer he is g. marked man and can- not stay in the union. , I do not know how it will come out but we intend to have the. union - recognized. We do not want to im- . hit “list it all ‘ J minors mum to“; *