Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-05
Forgetting Clothing Houses.

CIRCULAR OF THE JOURNEYMEN TAILORS' UNION
The J0urneymen T2i.0is Protective Union Of
this city have issued a circular to the working
men OF Washington, looking to the ''boycotting'
OF y. SakS & Co. and EiSemen Bros The circular
says OF the firms:
"They usually discharge their workIhen when
business becomes slack, anu send the work of their
customers to Baltimore factories. imposing upon
custom-lnade work of the Washington tailors.
Ihey ignore the union in this city, and pay only
workman to support his family. The small num-
Der OF men who get employment from them here
are unSk1lled anu inefficient. and cannot get en-
ployment in good establishments This method
or carrying on business, with which they have no
sympathy, enables those firms to make a grand
spurge and fanciful display on their store fronts
chase inferior work and think they are sustaining
the W0rkmen of their own community. We APP
peal 10 our feilOW-y Orkmen OF Washington city,
and 10 Gil gentlemen who believe In allowing fair
wages for fair work, to consider this matter and to
aOld their patronage from men who aim to sue
ceed by imposing upon their patrons and OppreSS-
Ing their wOrkmen. We ask you to s.boycott, A.
Saks q Co and Eiseman Brothers until they learn
10 act fairly by the wurkmen whose business they
have uSurped for selfish greed. This is not for an
advance ON prices; although New York is at pres
eat paying 20 per cent. Philadelphia IS per cent,
The above firms also employ the wOrst-paid
female labor. Our union have been forced by the
ABOVE circumstances to strike aga1ns them"
THE UNIONS ADVERTISEMENT.
The union has also had the following advertise
ment published in Baltimore Philadelphia and
New York:
Tb'O JoURNEYMEN TAILORs-w ANTEp-ALL
s G snd % beware End not be by
D. T., as their stores are strike.
BY order OF tie all rs Union of Washington, D. C.
WHAT THE TAILORs SAY.
Mr. b. S. Mcdonald, chairman OF the committee
by whom the circular was prepared, states that
under the present bill OF prices the highest price
for a coat Is 81 and the lowest 81 so while under
the bill OF 1854 the highest s11 and the lowest
IS; and that the rates in other cities are as fol-
lows: Richmond, s11 and IS: Norfolk, s11 so and
$50; philadelphia, Qioyt & Co.. 81 and IS: Pitts
burg, 81 and IS; New York, $3.50 and s115O All
the Journeymen want Is, he said, for the firms
above mentioned TO do the square thing and pay
the prices paid 10y first-class houses. We are
hnItee; Let Mr. Saks take two merchants and we
will take two from the Federation OF Labor and we
VIII be satisfied with the result There are, he
said. 7,400 members OF the Federation OF Labor
ana their custom amounts to something.
WHAT THE BoYCOTTED FIRMS say
Messrs. Eiseman say that the real questions
involved are the payment of extras, and the fact
that their firm do not care whether their work.
men are union men or not
MIR. Saks also claims that the object OF the union
Is to force the discharge of non-unfOn men, and
that his firm does not object to paying union
wages. Both firms deny the allegations in the
circular.
PECUNIARY TROUBLES OF THE SCovILLE FAMILY
Frank t. Cole ana others have filed answers In the
superior court OF Chicago to the bill OF George
Scoville charging them with conspir1ng to defraud
MN Out or his personal property by various chat
tel mortgages Cole in his answer gives an ac-
count OF loans made TO Mr.. Scoville and Mrs. SEQ
Vile, BEGINNING in April, 1884, and continuing
down through the proceedings attending the Gui,
teau trial, there being now due, he claims, s544
secured Sa Dy chattel mortgages. This claim had
still holds the securities Cole denies having re-
celved any money from newspaper men or
otners Tor the use Of ScOville, or that he ever
look advantage OF the tneXDerjence of Mr., 500
VIE. nc characterizeS her a ''shrewd, SELF
Ieiant woman with great experience in borrowing
money on cnattel mortgage security, having served
an apprenticeship under the tuition of her hus-
pano, the complainant In this suitn He asks to
ton dissolved '"'u"c-
"A ROUGH VOYAGE-The English brig Rowena.
Capt. Read, master, arrived aG Iittiened,S ,vha
Yesterday from Trinidad with 35l tons of crnaa 90