Show THE carpenters STRIKE april the carpenters union had a meeting which lasted till somewhere near midnight J just before adjournment the following resolutions which had been under discussion were adopted 1 that the terms of our ctr circular cular of jan 15 to contractors and builders be adhered to in full 2 that none but competent men be employed with the exception of apprentices the number of apprentices to be employed breauh one to be agreed upon mutually 3 that to have all agreements carried out in good faith the bosses shall declare their jobs and shops to te be union or in other words that the employers shall recognize the union by hiring none but unto amen as in no other way can disputes be fully guarded against thursday may lat ast was the time decided upon for the carpenters and joiners joiner sto to quit work provided their terms were not complied with in many cases today the employers acceded to the demand for the time being at least and t the he men continued at work at other places however the caw case was different and quite a number of workmen were out of employment today at the sierra nevada lumber yard the blow of the strikers was most severe there they demanded for nine hours work but mr lynn refused to pay more than 35 cents per hour fourteen of his hip employed emp loyes went out eight being union men and six nonunion non union only four employed emp loyes were left in the mill and very little work was done it was understood that there would be no difficulty in competent men getting the wages but the company would not pay good and poor workmen alike there is considerable difference of opinion between mr lynn and the men and the outcome cannot yet be determined ter mined at the salt lake building and manufacturing companas Comp anys etab e tab lish ment six men went out the reason for going was that the company employed nonunion non union men the wages question was settled there and the strike was solely on the other issue mr woolley one of the managers of the companas comp anys affairs was in his office today when one of df his former employed emp loyes came in mr woolley inquired why did you not give us notice of your proposed action mr bishop the striker we did we sent you a circular a while ago mr woolley yes you sent a circular and its requirements were that we pay tor for a day of nine hours and give union men the preference in employment we submitted to that demand and now without any notice or intimation that anything was wrong you call an arbitrary strike do de you think there is anything fair or honorable in deciding at 12 at night that you will refuse to go to work at 7 next morning without a word ot of complaint or notice to your employers you never made any complaint to us and we never had any tion of your intention till informed by the men this morning when they quit work why were we not notified to say the least that we might meet you and discuss the matter mr bishop there is an arbitration committee in the scott build building where such questions can be considered mr woolley do you suppose that it is our business to hunt up that committee at any and all times and inquire of them if there is anything going to be sprung on us by the union andack and ask for arbitration weare we are hardly in that line of business and dont donit propose to be mr bishop you knew there was a discussion going on about wages mr woolley yes sir and re a circular about it and we gave what you asked we object to having our business run by others in this style mr woolley made further explanations of his position which is in substance the same as that of a number of other employers pl he said we have no objection to paying the wages asked for the I 1 nae we stated but we do object to paying full wages to an incompetent hand avre are not enough good union carpenters here to supply the demand and we consider it a gross injustice to inflict ajaj injury u ry on us because there are good workmen who will not unite with the unions we need men who can do a certain class of work and we can afford to pay them full wages for the amount they do but there are not enough union men of that class clan and we are subjected to a strike if we employ additional men merely because those men are not members of the union I 1 understand that most of the resident members were opposed to this course but that transi transients ests and new comers have control of the union and have proceeded in this way ro fo mr bishop mr woolley said you kd know ow there are certain members here her who are greatly inferior to nonunion non union men as workmen and who are not worth the full wages they demand there are blank and blank and blank naming several of the men and they cannot earn us more than or per day they admit that they are not first class workmen and say they are willing to work for what they are worth but ane union wont let them and we cannot afford to hire them 1 mr bishop the union will not keep incompetent nt men as members mr woolley but they do it and shall we pursue a man to have him expelled and so place him where he be can get no employment at all he may be never so good a nan man but it his misfortune to be slower than a first class hand therefore you shut him out of getting what he can earn or compel us to pay more than he is worth you may call that fair but I 1 do not if you had grades according to ability we might get around that point but there is no do road now kaow ex except capt to fight the unions W we e are klad glad some of your men have struck blank for instance naming him be is an agitator who will always bring brani trouble and he be does so much agitating that he gets through with but little wort work well go on as we are till a change comes and you are willing to meet us on fairer grounds we are willing to pay good wages for good work but we object to either paying poor workmen high wages or being made the victims of a strike because good men differ in opinion with you in regard to union most of the building companas comp anys men are nonunion non union and the work if ha not materially retarded at taylor romney armstrongs armstrong there are but few union men mein they were on hand this morning but no strike arike was inaugurated aw mr folsom had been left by three orf burmen or four men he ete said they agreed to go on till saturday and I 1 had agreed to make a change of wages and time on monday but they broke their engagement this morning and quit without a moments warning just on the three da days y a dif difference different ferenc I 1 dont like to be treated in that manner and as I 1 am not compelled to submit to it I 1 dont think I 1 will at the burton gardner corn com yard both union and nonunion men are employed the wages being the standard price and no striking was done at several other places there were some slight disputes but in no case was there any disturbance noted with one or two exceptions the demand for for nine hours work has been acceded to and were this to settle it that would probably become the standard figure but the effort to compel nonunion non union men to join by interfering with the employers pl presents another question and there is already some talk of proceeding roce eding in the line that was followed in omaha and have the union enjoined by the courts from ordering the men man out on strike for such a cause |