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INDIANA UNIVERSITY 



the whole struggle bemg merely a peaceful attempt to secure 

 what the workmen seemed to have Eelt was their just due. On 

 the other side, the employers seem to have been for the most 

 part perfectly open in their dealings with the workmen, al- 

 though it is charged that two companies who favored the grant- 

 ing of the workmen's demands were discriminated against in the 

 matter of setting cars and furnishing transportation facilities by 

 the Monon and Southern Indiana railwaj^s, some of whose direc- 

 tors were heavily interested in certain of the involved com- 

 panies; and it is also claimed, though without very convincing 

 evidence, that there was an attempt to blacklist some of the 

 workmen who found employment during the strike in the build- 

 ing of a cement factory at Bedford and in track construction on 

 the Southern Indiana Railway. 



In the matter of wages, complete data cannot be had for an 

 estimate of the total result of the strike. In general the wage 

 rate was slightly raised. Of the two hundred and twenty-eight 

 sawyers, planermen, hookers and traveler runners involved, the 

 wages of one hundred and forty-seven were increased, those of 

 twenty-two were decreased and those of fifty-nine (including 

 thirty-four who got the rate demanded) remained the same. This 

 meant an average advance of about one cent per hour for these 

 classes. The condition of the sawyers was practically un- 

 changed, although their request was granted except as to the 

 wages of head sawyers. Furthermore, it was agreed that saw- 

 yers might work twelve hours per day in cases of emergency, 

 receiving one and one-half time for all overtime. The planermen 

 fared rather better as to net increase of wages, though none of 

 them got the rate demanded. 



The strike also caused some migration of workmen between 

 the Bedford and Bloomington districts. A number of men in- 

 volved in the Bedford strike found work during its continuance 

 in the quarries and mills about Bloomington, and when the strike 

 was ended some of them remained in the more northern district. 

 On the other hand, many quarry men in the Bloomington district 

 sought employment in the Bedford region soon after the settle- 

 ment of the labor dispute, attracted in part by the slightly higher 

 wages, in part by a less valid reason — their desire for change. 



Though careful to avoid all appearance of recognizing the 

 unions during the continuance of the strike, the employers soon 

 after consented to the appointment of a ''shop steward" for 



