St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-07
LOCAL LABOR.
A Vigorous Boycott by the Bakers.
The Bricklayers' Action,

A Vigorous Boycott by the Esakers--
The Esrickiayers' Action.
The French bakery at 100 West Third
street, owned and run by Ferdinand Ducius,
is just now the target of an able bodied
boycott. declared by the Bakers union, and
many people were reminded of the fact yes
terday by hapd-biils or visits from the
boycott committee. A reporter dropped in
yesterday afternoon and was met by the
proprietor's wife, a busy little woman with
a slightly broken accent and with some
what troubled look on her face. She talked
readily about the boycott and fiber husband
has as much spirit as she has the members
of the Bakers union will be gray headed
before he signs their bill of terms.
Eyes, they have hurt our trade good
dea'' she said. "All yesterday and this
forenoon three OF them followed our delivery
wagons around in buggy, and they would
get out at every one of our customers and
tell them they would have to stop patronizing
US. l guess nearly seventy-five of our GUS
toners have quit and that makes a big hole
in our trade. They stood around here on the
sidewalk yesterday and this forenoon, trying
to keep people from coming in, and passing
their hand bills around. Chief Clark was in
here to-day and asked if they were annoying
u.s. and they quit after that. We saw Bill
Murray to try to get a warrant and he said
he'd look over the books and see if we could
get one, but we haven't got one yet. Well
close up the shop, though before Wen
give in. Some OF our friends, | don't
know who they were, got out this bill to-day
to distribute. Some bakeries have sent US
lot of stuff without our asking them. They
baked up a lot of cake for banquet we are
getting up tonight, and they are going to
help us out. They havn't burst our shop
trade any, but that don't amount to much.
We don't object to the wages they ask
but they want to say who shall work for us
and we want to run that part ourselves
The little lady found a good deal to
laugh at in the situation, though she ac-
knowledged that they were troubled and
hurt by the boycott. About half of the
shops in the city have agreed to the terms
of the union, and they are making an eX-
ample of Ducius, intending to follow up the
others later. Bowden's bakery OH East
Seventh street is to be the next place of at
tack.
There are of course two sides to the stu
alton. The bakers recently formed union
and determined to ask S11 for bench work
erS and S14 week for foremen, which is
slight advance but still is considered low
for skilled tradesman. Their hours have
been long and their work hard and unpleas-
ant. They ask reduction to twelve
hours. Heretofore bakers have been
required to board with their bosses,
and it may be imagined that the
living would not be very high in style or
quality and their sleeping place was often
a cot in some out-of-the corner. They
include in their present demands that no
baker shall board with his employer But
they include the demand that none but
union men be employed and proceed to
anfn oil no hnu
IN OTHER TRADES.
Matt Breen said yesterday in reply to an
inquiry about the arbitration scheme re-
Gently announced by the stonecutters:
Those fellows got misunderstanding of
what l said. A few days ago one of them
came to me and asked if the differences
couldn't be fixed up some way, so that neither
side would appear as having given in. told
him I had nothing to settle arbtrate, and
that I knew of but two ways in
which the union men could get back to work,
either to come to work as l needed more men,
or else to fix up some agreement with the
Limestonecutters union that is working
here now. That's all know about it. ! got u
statement from my foreman in Kasota
to-day that shows that i have sold three car
loads of stone in Chicago and Minneapolis
since their boycott was declared. and where
I sold one during the same time last year.
The situation in the woodworkers' strike
has not changed, except that six men left at
Blodgett & Osgood's factory. An effort
was made to fix up matters at the st. Paul
Furniture company's factory, but the men
stuck to their demands and the matter was
dropped. The superintendent said that
plenty of men could be secured from Pull
man and other places, where large numbers
of men have struck recently.
A committee from the Furriers' union
made all effort yesterday to get the whole
sale houses to accept their terms, but no
conclusion was reached.
mo there is nothing new said master
plumber as he jumped out of buggy at s
O'Clock last evening. II just got through
with job up on the hill and l guess all the
contractors have been working to-day
An advance of wages was granted the
West side auarrymen Yesterday.