Show t STRIKE MAY Ml END ENDL L IN SHORT TIME b 4 1 i Plumbers Plumb rs Strike Committee I Expresses Belief That Settle Settlement Settler Settlement r ment Will Be Reached Soon r CONCESSIONS S ARE CLAIMED f J I f t t STRIKERS SAY SEVEN EMPLOY EMPLOYERS il ri ERS GRANTED INCREASE J X J In a statement by the strike committee 4 f at of r the Plumbers lumbers 1 union last ht night a H be belief beJ J I lief lIer was expressed that thit the trouble be between beI bet I t tween the union and the master plumb l f era er would be settled In hi a 8 few days da on fl H K ItI I f bails satisfactory to both sides aides and that Jr the union men who have been 3 I J I on wi since Monday would return to tog toioi g work it I I The Tile strike committee said Mid that seven of the thirteen shops shop sho affected had bed conceded I II J 1 I I the demand for 6 a day da that two other 1 Ii shops hoJ would announce their position w to today 1 day da and that the other four would probably p I ably be guided by b the action of the tWo i r j r The Tho names of the hope were not given Iven t t F We Ve have not had an increase Inc se of oC pay pey f I SInce Ince 1891 11 and antI this is our first trouble I jI I since that tune tim the committee said All 11 q it we are asking is a square deal We e be bf beH r H J ve e we are entitled to more than thai UjO IO f Ji J J and s S a day da especially e as the th master i If J plumbers plumber now have hal a minimum charge to of SI St an hour or S a day dB in r effect We c agreed to protect all shops on onI I if up to the time tinH of the de tie demand tiec c II t mand lInt Jan 15 Jr We e also asked for a con conz i with ith Will flees Reea R chairman of the ir z iii i flister plumbers bers committee and nd Hr d I t td J on Ht the te notion of or this tIis conference nce I L I hut the plumbers refuted refused to meet J f us 1 t They say ticy tIC have all the men they I fit ri t M ti ant hut but we know Inow now of at least one olle man mannow r I now How In III on one of the UK shops who 4 rJ t 1 Uy hJ lite hlll hI own is a i Boilermakers union i 1 and ami a It member of tiC the k i We e have ive fifteen union men now no at work j If pt 3 f in lit the various rious shops of the th city lit 1 4 I f Mauler plumbers said Mid they th knew khew of no f r e hang In th the situation yesterday and re rf reaffirmed reI I I tJ r I S affirmed determination to insist Inait on r tHe lle t e open shop hereafter I |