Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-05-03


OF course. the exception OF the plumbers. The
work on the Baltimore San buildingou street.
Is going on today as usual, but this building is
being erected by day work, and the owners
directed that the demands OF the men for eight
hours should be granted.
Mr.. b. II. WARMERS OPINION.
Mr.. B. H. Warner said to-day: "We built very
largely for other parties last year, but our
houses are nearly completed. Several Of our
wealthy clients who were going TO spend large
amounts in building have postponed their
enterprises for the present The interests OF all
parties will force a settlement Of the question
very SOON"
Confident KNIGHT OF LABOR.
This thing is going on" said Mr.. r. L. De
Akers a well-known Knight OF Labor TO a STAR
reporter, until this matter is settled. Our men
are In dead earnest about il; they We're never
more In earnest in anything than they are In
THIS movement. haven't the slightest doubt OF
thoroughly ana am thoroughly SATISFIED.
DIVISIONS have already appeared i'm the ranks
OF the bosses, but there will be no divisions
among our men. The bosses, think. under
estimate the strength OF the men, who are
thoroughly united, and have resources at their
disposal which the bosses do not dream Of"
REPRESENTATIVE wEAvER's VIEWS.
The labor representatives i'm the House look
upon the eight-hour movement as a matter of
very serious Importance, and think the result
must finally be asuccess. Representatives. aver
said to-day that the movement would be uni
versai throughout the country, and he thought
IT would be successful and of great benefit To
the laboring men and to the community. He
thinks that generally speaking the settlement
VIII be reached peaceably.
MD. EDMoNsToN's FIGURES
Mr.. Gabriel Edmonston, of the Carpenters
union, said to a STAR reporter that the men
had their plans. Ii they failed in tLis attempt
they would accomplish their purpose i'm another
way. lie was not at liberty To tell what that
way would be: The men, however, would do
the work, and while II might deter building
operations for a moment at the start. AT the end
OF the year there would be AS much done un-
der the eight-hour system as would have been
done otherwise.
THE MASTER BUILDERS
who had determined not to grant the eight
hours informed their men on Saturday when
they paid them of their decision, and SO this
morning they made no arrangements to do
much work on their buildings. Whatever
could be done by apprentices aud carpenters
they engaged men 10 do, and this part OF the
work OF building house went on without
much interruption.
1--WE are having very pleasant contest" re-
marked Col. Fleming TO STAR reporter this
morning. Like the other builders, am not
doing much work. / have about twelve
penters at work under the old hours..but my
brick work is at a stand still. Everything is
quiet at my buildings, and do not wish to do
or say anything TO disturb the good feeling that
prevails. 1 wish that you would deny the
statement published this morning that 1 said
Mr.. Powderly was a trickster L made no
such a statement"
"How many men do you consider out Of
the reporter
II don't know exactly" was the reply, "but
should say between seven and eight thousand.
l calculate that there are 800 members of the
Carpenters union, 600 bricklayers 80 plumb
ers, 900 laborers, 900 painters. 300 stone and
tin workers. SIX or eight hundred stone cutters,
100 galvanized iron workers, and don't know
how many iron founders and slate and maniel
men The piasterers, you know. are not IN this
movement"
Are the master builders adhering to their
resolution To resist this movement" questioned
the reporter.
LAS lar AS I know" said Mr. Fleming ..Per-
haps we will know more about il at our meet
ing this evening, but / believe that ALI the men,
bers OF the association will stick. There are some
builders who have contracts on hand Tor build
lngs which are ABOUT completed. and IL tiiis
condition of things continues for amy length of
time they VIII oe inclined 10 grant the eight
hours or any thing else 10 complete the buiid-
1nss and get their last payments. But ia such
Gases the increased cost 10 them Will he slight,
and IT Will not have much influence on the sit
ualion. | am confident. however that no work
OF any consequence Will be done under tiIe
eight hour regulation"
\ very common thing to-day was To hear Oh
the streets conversations something like this
between builders and their acquaintance:
Acqutint;ince.-I suppose you are not work
ing to-day.
Builder-I am not doing very much. Most
OF my men left me. have two apprentices and
one or two iaborers at work.
a house that is being built on 14th street.
near Thomas circle, by Mr. Donnelly. contractor,
bears the inscription Oh the scafiolding Eight
hours work." with ciasped hand beneath il.
On Dunbarton avenue, West Washington,
where a cellar ard trenches have been dug TO
start a house. and material is on the ground. "A
STAR reporter passing this morning at haii-past
O'Clock saw the boss on the sidewalk lighting
his pipe for "A smoke, while q solitary apprentice
boy was crawling into his overhauis with a
broad grin on his face.
WHAT MIR. FLANNERY SAYS.
1--WE take no part in strikes, nor do We ia
riots" said Mr.. Flannery, the boss sione-cu;ter
who has the contract for the Capitol terrace, TO
lite, and We grant the right to other men Ia
live besides ourselves. We viii work our men
eight hours instead OF ten, and employ three
men where we mad two. This makes three
homes happy. IL gives food and clothes TO the
family OF another man. That is our principle.
and we will carry it, out throughout our force.
We have about 10 men, He said lac could not
tell what the general outcome of the movement
for eight hours would be. he could hot tell
what others might do.
SCENE IN A STONE YARD.
AT Evans stone yard The STAR reporter
found one boy languidly cutting a hole in a
stone. Near him sat two men looking on. Nh.
Evans was not there.
''All the men have gone. They've all quit
Work, said one OF the men.
"How many asked the reporter
Mine, think, he replied; 'All there were.
They Will ali be at work III day or two think.
The boss Will give them all they want"
II ann sorry Mr.. Evans amt here" said the
boy, resting on his maliet and looking with one
eye into the hole he had been drilling.
FEW BUILDING PERMITS TAKEN OUT TO-DAY
There were very few building permits taken
out at the building inspectors Office to-day,
and those few for repairs. Mr. Entwisle states
that most of the journeymen brickiayers are
not at work to-day. Very few of the Journey
men carpenters are at work. He hopes To be
able to make a more favorable report to-mor-
row.
QUIET AS on A SABBATH MORNING.
The police reported that there no excite
ment about the city in consequence OF the
strike. Major Dye stated that everything was
as quiet as on a Sabbath morning.
THE CARPENTERS.
This afternoon the names of twenty-five
builders and firms had been reported to the |
Carpenters union as having conceded the eight |
hours. The list was as follows: George w. Cor |
bett, men; John Hewlett, j. SchaItert, {. l.. |
Dennam Parson Il Walker, IL men; Beckwitn |
& Quackenbush, Ira Beers A. u. Humphreys, |
X. L. Grimes d Co., Rhodes X Summers Jonn |
L. Grummond, Harry Reinger, VIM. Germon, |
Owen Donnelly, J. L. Christinond. George ,Har- |
rison, X. Darby, j. IL. Lewis, Edmonston Du- |
vail, 4. Particle. and Messrs. Yates, Rogers |
Yost, Clark and Hauschamp. Officers OF the |
union expressed confidence that tine majority |
of the men would be working on the eight-hour |
system by Wednesday.
The plumbers added to their list this after |
noon another employing plumber who had |
granted eight hours. He is Mr.. Z. +. Umhau.
1t was stated at the Knights OF Labor head |
quarters this afternoon that one thousand was |
probably above rather than below the number |
OF men who are idle on account Of the "eight- |