Annual Report of the Board of Mediation and Arbitration of the State of New York Volume 2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1889 Excerpt: ... EEPOET. Office Of The Board Of Mediation And Arritration, I January 16, 1889. j To the Legislature of the State of New York: Pursuant to requirement of law, the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration presents its second annual report to your honorable body. The number of strikes and lock-outs of serious consequence to the industries of the State have been fewer in 1888 than in any one of the immediately preceding years. In many cases where disturbance of the relations between employer and employe was threatened, and brought to the attention of the Board, amicable settlements were reached through mediation. In others, where strikes or lock-outs occurred, adjustments were made by arbitration. And in others, where no reconciliation could be effected, and their importance seemed to call for inquiry, investigations were made and testimony taken, which will be found appended, and to which the attention of the Legislature is directed. Following is a brief statement of the action of the Board in some of the most important cases: On the second of November, 1887, at 7 o'clock p. M., the compositors employed in the newspaper and job printing offices of the city of Rochester went on strike because the Employing Printer's Association had declined to adopt the scale of wages proposed by Typographical Union No. 15 and Typographical Assembly No. 1735, Knights of Labor. The fact of the strike did not come to the knowledge of the chairman of the Board until the morning of the third of November, when he requested the other members of the Board to come to Rochester immediately and endeavor to effect a settlement of the difficulty. On the fourth of November the Board met in that city and used every available means to bring about an amicable adjustment of the controversy. The...