The Evening Argus

The Arsenal Strike Ended - Good Feeling Restored - Work to be Resumed.

We learn from Richard Lloyd Esq. (our Alderman Lloyd) who is superintendent of stone work at the Arsenal, that, at his request, a meeting of stone cutters, laborers, &c., &c., was held under the trees, on the river bank, just above the Arsenal Bridge at 11 o'clock this forenoon (the 14th) at which he informed them that, if they would resume work, only 8 hours a day should be required, in accordance with the law, and that they should receive such pay, per day, as is paid in Chicago and St. Louis: and immediate measures should be taken to ascertain the rates and communicate them to the employees at the public works. After the proposition was discussed, the following letter was sent to Mr. Lloyd:

Rock Island, Aug. 14, 1868.
To Richard Lloyd, Esq., Sup't Stone Works at Rock Island Arsenal, Dear Sir: - We take pleasure in informing you that we consider your proposition reasonable, consequently we accept it.
Respectfully Yours,
THE STONE CUTTERS.

This, we presume, will be acquiesced in by all who were not present, either stone cutters or laborers, and thus will good feeling be restored and the work resumed. We have learned from some of the stone cutters. that this is the feeling among them; that none of them ever doubted the good intentions of Gen. Rodman, nor do they doubt that he will do all he can to give them all his instructions will permit. At any rate they will soon know the scale of wages, when all will be free to accept the prices and remain, or reject them and leave.

On Monday we presume that work will be generally resumed.

We are also requested to say that the statement in the Union, this morning, that threats were used to deter men from working at Moline, is wholly a mistake; that no threats were used by any one, as far as can be ascertained; that diligent inquiry has been made as to the truth of the story, and that it cannot be traced to any reliable source.

We are glad to learn that good feeling is restored and that work is to be resumed. We have never doubted that Gen. Rodman would do all he could to preserve amicable relations between the war department and the government employees. And it is a source of pride in us to be able to say that the workmen have conducted themselves with remarkable propriety and good manners: asking only what they had a right to ask, under the law, and determined to submit to no abatement of their just rights, at the hands of Gen. Schofield or any one else.

It is to be regretted that many men have left and accepted employment on the works of Reynolds, Souipaugh & Co., at Dunleith, at Galva, and other points—but we hope their places will soon be filled, and all the work accomplished at the Arsenal which it is possible to accomplish this year.