Evening star., 1883-07-21
The Appeal Of the Alleged s'PIasterers,
Union No. L.,

BEPLf 6f A COMMITTEE OF THE FEDERATION OF
LABOR.
To the Members OF TIE Trades Caions Of Washing.
ton:
BROTHERS: The undersigned, delegates to the
federation of Labor, were appointed, at a regular
meeting OF the Federation on Tuesday, to consider
and reply TO the appeal" OF the alleged "Plaster-
ers' Union No. l." published in THE STAR the same
evening. signed by three delegates" (alleged)
from said alleged Union.
once upon time three tailors OF Tooley street.
London, met and organized themselves into mass
convention, and put forth ponderous appeal
prefaced by the following preamble: "Whereas
we, the people or England" &C., g.. Similarly
these these three Plas.erers (double-distied 'scabss)
OF the 22,Oo0 plasterers of the United States!n
Thus history Is ever repeating ITSELF
Now, fellow-craftSmen OF all unions In WASH
ingtOn, We wish TO show you who and what these
three WORTHLESS are who, with unparalleled inso-
lence and an assurance that would make a brass
statue blush, have dared to ask YOU TO censure
your delegates in the Federation because they
ellis
This committee, fellOw-craftsmen speak by the
record in the following brief bit OF history: Joseph
shocked at the doings OF Plasterers' Assembly No.
1o44, knights OF Labor, has been long member
OF that "oath-b0und body" with all that it i'm
plies; nay, one of It's officers. More than that
like all his kind, he the most fierce rabid and
uncompromiSing In that body.
A motion having been made to give the "bOSse
months notice that s35 per day would be de-
manded, a member moved 70 make IL two days
and his motion was adopted. In March, 1882,
Joseph RoSenberry, Knight OF Labor then In
good standing. moved, In No. 16ii. that no plaS-
terer DE allowed 10 work for employer John King
FOR one gedT. Yet, shortly after the scale was
adopted by the Assembly, vehernently urged by
him. ke rendered his resi- nation, upon the plea OF
going into business. IL was accepted under the
Tules, and In months time thereafter this same
Rosehbcrry was working ''scab' for "scab
bosses at less than the scale as he has been since
ana Is now, when he WORKS at all, So much
Tor R0SeuOefry, who whIneS so Justify ABOUT his
being "disgractd" by the Federation.
Or the other two IL Is hardly necessary TO devote
much space: Chamberlain Is a mere tag TO ROsen-
berrys coat tail, and Crown brings up at the foot
rs he ought, for he Is OF stin less consequence.
Both OF them, Ee-RoSenberry were members of
No. 1914. and both OF them violated as he did
the!f sacred honor, II they ever had any, ten
dered their designations upon the same lying plea
as hpoehuerry. ana went 10 work at once as
'ScabS IN the effort to reduce the scale of prices
and to destroy and degrade. so far as they could,
Is of record, which this committee have seen and
youch for.
Now, fei.ow-crarrsmen Of Washington, In what
vocabulary snail We find terms 10 EtIy character
lie these traitorous fellows who appear befor O
you In the public prints with such smooth, high
In which there are not over two truths
in the whole half column: the rest being
square-toed falsehcods. VINO wrote IL? Rosen-
berry didn't write IL; neither did Chamberlain or
RossnbeTy mot exeSed eab 'hvt Wehs, a OF she
tionary and lludley Murray's grammar as they
90 everything that they touch. 1.-THE hand is the
hand OF ESau, but the voice Is the voice of jacob
We think we Know who Jacob Is, and we expect
70 verify our suspicious. The real authors OF
this precious document have left their ear-marks
upon It Having lost control of the Federation,
and fearful that fr may oyerturn their partIZaD
schemes, they take this sneaking method to stab
the Federation in the dark by the aid OF these
dirty tools But the Federation will live and
prosper and gain new ygor and usefulness, now
that new and vigorous blood has been Injected
and assumed the reins. SO, too, the same hands
seek to strike blow at the knights OF Labor that
really monster organization" OF 10000 work
fngmen, which is now in deadly grapple with the
most shameful, the most rapacious, and soulless
among the great corporations that are slowly but
surely forcing down the level OF the rates paid to
the ii O00, 900 or wage-workers In the Union. II
Was this monster organization" that took the
poor, disorganized, helpless plasterers OF Wash
ington under Its broad protecting Bgis and helped
them TO resurrece the defunct Piasterers' Union
into a large and power body, whose members get
pay enough, while they work, to support them
selves decently and comfortably self-respectng
American workingrnen. But these three
:aiserab.e "scabs." With about four
teen others, havc done Us al,aos,
Hreparable injury for but for their base treachery