The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-26
PLUMBERS WAGES.
NEW SCALE sUBMITTRD
10 the Master PIumbOrS by the UuiOR'
What win be Required on jane lap
prsulIcss DsmApdsd-A Resume of
the Fsaturss of the Demand.

The master plumbers OF this city have
all received from the Plumbers Union 9
printed scale and certain rules and regu'
adopted by the Union, accom-
panied by a communication signed by its
officers, stating that the same is to go into
force aud effect May 81. The matter sent
out by the Union is, briefly, as follows:
No ~journeymsn plumber is to receive
hereafter less than So so per day, All
work done on Sunday, at night, or on
Christmas or July 4, shall be accounted as
double time and double wages must be
paid for it.. Plumbers working in the
country for city bosses must have their
travelling expenses and board billh
paid, and time consumed in tray
cling shall be charged as work
ing time and paid for, No member
must work with q member not having q
clear working card longer than until the
next meeting Of the organization If this
rule is iniringed a fine OF 81 shall bs lev
led. Each member will be tined'Sl pei
day for each day he works with a non
union journeymRn, Any member getting
intoxicated during working hours or be-
ing discharged for becoming intoxicated,
shall pay a line Of 81, No member shall
work Tor n "lumper" or do slump work,
under penalty oil q fine Of So. This would
prevent plumbers being engaged to fit
in, q a bath.tub, that mad been puF-
chased somewhere out OF tho city, or do
ing the plumbing for q new house the
piping for which, was furnished by the
owner. All apprentices must serve five
years, and none will be taken who
are not IL yeara old; there must be one
apprentice to every four %iourneymen OF
fraction thereof, employed in any estab-
lishment; all apprentices must be able to
read aud write English aud must be ac-
uuainted with the fundamental prinCi-
pies OF ADMINISTRATION, subtraction,
multiplication and division. The a~ssocia.
ton shall have q voice in the selection oil
all apprentices each apprentice must pass
an examination before a board oil dlrec'
tors Of the association, register and re-
port to the association quarterly. The
tirst three years an apprentice seryes
shall be as assistant to the jo%urneymen;
the next two years he shall serve
as his employer may direct. All appren'
tees must be legally indentured.
No member OF the organization will per-
nit any helper or assistant to use his tools
or any tools that said helper or assistant
may possess or be provided with by the
employer, unless he be legally indentur.
ed according to the apprenticeship laws Of
the State. For the fret violation oil this
rule q member shall be fined $40, for the
second $25, for the third 500, aud for the
fourth shall DO expelled from the associR'
ton.
The members will do their utmost to
instruct apprentices In the practical and
theoretical work Of plumbing. No work
will be done as q loan from n employer
to another.
Just what the master plumbers will do
ia not known. An effort was made to get
some expressions from them but they were
inclined to be retlCent, Heretofore, an
apprenticeship has only lasted four years,
and the employer has not consulted the
Union as to who he should have for ap:
prentiCes. An apprentice having served
four years became u journeymen, but all
iourneymen have not been paid the same
wages, 90 Is contemplated by the Unions
terms.
The wages have ranged from about
81 rs to So per day, according to the
ability and capacity OF the journeyman,
for in the plumbing buslness, as in the
carpenter, brick laying and other branches
OF industry, some workmen are worth
more than other men. -,
Another rule that 1t Is understood Is
considered somewhat arbitrary, is the II
requiring one apprentice to be in an es.
Enlistment for every four %journeymen Of
fraction thereof. A reporter wa yester-
day told that, In some establishments no
apprentices are employed, their place
being taken by helpers or assiotants, who
are now practically shut out by the rule
forblddi1g them to use tools, no matter to
whom they belong, and imposing heavy
fines on members Of the Union who per.
nit such q state Of affairs to exist, unless
tho helper DO a duly indentured appren-