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Show THEIR SIDE OF IT. A Committee Explains the Cuuxe of the Plumber's Strike. A committee from the plumber's association as-sociation were asked by The Times reporter re-porter today to explain ils side of the present strike. The journeymen ask for 4,o0 a day, nine hours to constitute a tlav's work, this committee asserts, and this is (ho foundation of the sliike. Previously they had been getting t for nine hour's service. They claim that what they ask is tho same rate as applies to Ihitto, Spokane Falls, Denver and other western west-ern towns. Tacoma they say, pays $5, for nine hours. They also assert that the union has the support of all plumbers' unions in Cnuada and tho United States, hav-ing hav-ing received yesterday a chock for $1200 trom abroad. They also say all local organized labor is with them. Tho committee say that if it is necessary neces-sary to call other workmen oil' construction construc-tion whero non-union plumbers are employed em-ployed they will do so to secure their point. . |