The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-03-21
me Wash1ngron Plasterer,.


The journeymen plastsrsrs Of Washing
ton are ct present.on strike foe IS per day,
in accordance with the resolution adopted
some weeks ago. The Star Of the 10th
inst, In referring to the matter says:
A few weeks ago the Journeymen Plas-
tereFs' Association adopted q resolution TO
demand e5 per day after the 10Th instant,
and the boss plasterers having formed an
association and determined Lot to paw that
amount; to-day the @.jOurs" are ON strike,
and a. there are bat one or two who do not
belon, to the society, plastering in this city
may BE- said te be suspended for the time be-
being There are nearly one hundred Jour
neymen to-day idle ON the street in conse-
quencs Of this strike.
The Eve dollars per day demanded 10 an
advance Of one dollar and, half per day
over the wages heretofore paid. LAST Fri
day night the master plasterers held meet
ing to take into consideration the resolution
Of the journey nen demanding an increase,
when ii was U. animously resolved shat they
would not aecede to the demand. They
were willing to make an advance Of fifty
cents per day on the three dollars and half
which they have already been paying, thus
agreeing TO give -four dollars, bat would not
gre any more. This action was made known
to the journeymsn on Saturday night,
whereapon the whole force resolved to stand
by their former resolve and quit work. As
both parties seem determined IN the posi-
ton they have taken, in all probability the
present state of affairs will continue for
s0me time to come. This morning com
mittee from the master plasterers associa-
ton waited upon Mr.. Mullett, Superin-
tendent OF the Treasury Extension, to ask
his cooperation 10 their action, and receiv ed
in reply his assurance that, should the strike
continue till ne was ready to have the plas-
tering done on the Extension, (In tive or
three weeks,) be would give mo- more than
the prices paid by city employers. The
journeymen plastersrs viii hold a meeting
tonight on the subject
In tuesdays issue Of the same paper the
luiou published the following card:
EDrroR STAR: A. regular meeting of the
Journeymen Plasterers Association, the under
signed were appointed committee to correct
what was conceived by them to be misconcep-
ton of the difference existing between the mas
ter plssterers and the members of the associa-
ton in regard TO wages, which appeared in yes
terday's Star:
During the season of 1867 the regular wages
demanded by tue association were a per day.
As the season .dvanced, the master pissterers,
without any ,.emAnd on our part. raised the
wages to q so Ess day, and three of them to
ss-s4.oU, .0wever, being the general wages.
In consi ieration Of the short days in winter,
the assoc iAtion adopted resolution that from
the 18th II November until the 18th of March
the wages should be $3.50, as the time made
would not amount to more than seveE or eight
hours per dag-say eight hours, which would be
4St cents per hour. Multiply this by ten, the
member Of hours constituting q regular DAYS
work, and 1t amounts to 81 s74 per day; so that
oil ne ask under this view lie an increase Of ga
cents. Take the other view the general wages
given in the fall Of 1867 being $3.50, we only
ask an increase Of 30 cents per day over that.
The resolution to strike for IS per day was
passed be the association on the 9th Of Decem-
Der anu published on the 10th, giving three
months notice, and not a few weeks, as stated
No communication has ever been received
from the Master Plastersrs by the association TO
which we belong. nor did they on last Saturday
night state their determination.