Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-18

The WArkmen on the Pension Building
THE POSITION OF THE INAUGURAL COMMITTEES
One Of the members OF the inaugural COM
mittee to-day said to q STAR reporter that the
difficulty at the Pension building was with the
Carpenters union, and II they had gone about
their business In the right way there would
have been no objection made. They. however
demanded that certain men should be employed
and certain others discharged, not because they
We're good or bad workmen, but simply because
they were either union or non-union men, The
committee felt that In the present emergency
they could not allow outsiders to dictate how
work should be done, as the pressing matter was
to have II done They had no doubt that there
were many better carpenters In the union than
were employed on the building, and on the other
hand had no doubt that there were many not
as good. The committee, however, had no time
est wages and took what labor was offered and
IL any one was found inefficient he was at once
DISCHARGED There were some union men now
employed, and the work was going on rapidly,
and he had no doubt but that It would be COM
pleted in time.
WHAT THE CARPENTERS SAY
In regard to the refusal Of the union carpen-
tiers to work at the Pension building on account
Of the employment of non-union men, Mr.. Bill
Kingsley, who is q member Of the committee
representing the union, said to STAR reporter
this morning: There We're twenty-seven union
carpenters at work In the Pension building on
Monday. Ofthis number twenty-five left and
have not returned. OF the remaining five who
are still at work, one is MacCarty's superintend-
emit, and the other four are old workmen of his
who were forced into the union at the time he
tried to employ non-union men on the
are receiving from the union thirty cents
an hour or the same wages they were receiving
at the Pension building. We have In the union
carpenters, so you see we have with US the best
workmen Of the city. We propose TO maintain
TINS position, and the only thing we can do is to
treat t0OSe VINO refuse To protect in
as they have treated us. Some OF our men who
went to the building yesterday to get their tools
were kicked out by the police officers. They
propose TO bring a suit for damages against the
committee for the loss OF their tools and
clothes"
THE FEDERATION OF LABOR
last evening, at their meeting, passed resolu-
lions endorsing the action Of the Carpenters
union. 1t is stated that an effort is being made
to unite all the building trades, SO that when
one strikes the rest will go out
A Question for the Managers OF the
Monument Dedication Ceremonies 60
Answer.
To the Editor Of THE EVENING STAR:
General Quitman was chief marshal at the
aging Of the cornerstone Of the monument in
1S4s, and Mr.. Joseph II. Bradley was chief mar
shall for the District, with some twenty aids of
whom five or six are now living. The parties
who control the proceedings for Saturday have
completely ignored Mr.. Bradley and his aids.
HOW AN EDITOR PoPPED.-Editors have their
peculiarities as well as other people. They
practice and inculcate brevity, which is a vir-
tue. They are abSent-minded, which is q fail
ing, 1t is not strange, then. that one should
send note to his lady-love like the following:
. Dearest: have carefully analysed the feeling
Ientertain for you, and the result is substan-
TALLY as follows: / adore you! VIII you be
mine? Answer" Then, after a moment Of
thought, he added in a dreamy, absent way:
write only on one side OF the paper. Write
plainly and give real name, not necessarily for
publication, but as guarantee of good faith"
ARRESTED FOR STEALING HIS MOTHERS
SILvERwARE.-For some time past Mrs. A. NJ.
Robinson, a wealthy lady living in Baltimore,
has been missing pieces Of silverware nom
quantity she had I'm q warehouse. She also had
a valuable collection of bronze ornaments,
which were missed last week. The case
was placed in the hands of detectives, who
traced two trunks full of the 'bronzes to Phila-
delphia, where they were recovered. Robert
Thompson and Charles Robinson, the latter a
young son of the owner of the property, were ar
rested. The silverware has not been recovered,
but young Robinson is charged with having
stolen it, and c. s. Schwallof, a merchandise
broker, was arrested on the charge of receiving
the stolen goods. The value of the property is
$500.