The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-21
THE MASTER CARPENTERS IN COUNCIL.
They Agree TO the Eight-IIOur Demand
Under Protest.

They Agree 10 the Eight-Iour Dema nd
Under Protest.
The master carpenters Of the city, numbering
about one hundred assembled In council at room
"a Cooper Union, last evening, to decide finally
upon the stand to be taken relative to the strikes
MIR. w. Blackstone presided, and Mr. Voorhees,
acted as secretary.
the question before the meeting was the resolu-
tion laid over rom the session Of Saturday evening
for the adoption OF the nine-hour rule. motion
was made to amend the resolution by making 1t
read eight instead of nine hours. After considera-
BILE debate the amendment was rejected. The ques-
tion then recurred on the original resolution Tor
the adoption OF the nine hour rule
Mr.. SMITH, am for the eight-hour rule II Is
better for the bosses. The plasterers the brcklay
ers and the painters-men who do not require any
thing like the brains the journeymen carpenter re-
qnires,nare working a. eight hours and It Is not to
harder service than men of those other trades They
have nine hours In Europe and we can certainly
ANornER DELRaATR-we can find plenty Of men
to work ten hours.
TUE UNIoNIsrs DENOUNCED.
Mr.. HUME am on the ten-hour side The men
who are getting up this strike the rag, tag and
bObtai OF the trade and they are trying to get the
good, capable men Of the business into their ranks
to give them calibre. They are acting in bad faith
and, as an American citizen, object to acceding
" suicidal policy. Talk about brains % into carpen, 4.
tiers. have been in quest Of brains into carpen-
ters for long time. There amt any very intelli.
gent or trusty men among these strikers.
Mr.. HENDERSON ian eight-h0ur man)-There are
many master carpenters Mr. President, whose
faces you and know, who are not here at this
meeting, and they are working their men at eight
hours. It's q question OF eight or ten hours, and
the law says eight, and we ought to abide by 1t.
Mr.. MOORE (whO originally Introduced the res0-
lutiOn) declined to withdraw IL. He said 1t pro-
vided for nine hours work until November, and
then for eight hours. He said 1t would work Its
o En doom, and he only wanted to give 1t trial.
The resolution providing for nine hours work was
finally put and lost long preamble and resOlu-
tiOn were then introduced recalling little OF every
thing relative to labor fom the days OF the Garden
OF Eden down to the woodchopping at Chappaqua,
and providing, first, that the master carpenters
protest against the strike the result Of the wire
working OF politicians.
DEFAMATION OF THE PRESS
The selfish interference OF Bubservient press
was added, and even that Of the clergy. And sec
Ond that the master carpenters consent under pro-
test, that the hours of labor for their employees
hereafter shall be eight hours o day.
On motion the preamble and resolutions were put
separately and the preamble and first resolution
were carried by an almost unanimous VOTE The
second resolution was amended so to read '.j0ur-
neymen" employees thus excluding machinists,
drivers, sawyers, engineers, &C., from the eight
hour principle, and in this form was adopted.
One delegate stated that he believed the strikers
who had now got their eight hours would demand
81 day In q few weeks. The resolutions as
adopted were ordered to be published In the promi-
nent daily papers, and the meeting adjourned.