Evening star., 1886-06-10
THE EIGHT HOUR LOCKOUT.
No Compromise Yet Reached The
Brick layers Undertake q Flank Move.
ment.

The interest in the eight hour lockout to-day
was centered in the movements of the brick
layers. AS stated in yesterdays STAR the con-
ference between the committee Of the Brick
layers Union and a committee of the Master
Masons' association failed in effecting an agree
ment, the master masOns insisting upon an
abandonment by the journeymen of their
union cards, and the journeymens committee
positively declining to yield the card. The
action of the bricklayers' committee was ap-
proved at a meeting OF the Rricklayers' Union
last evening.
AT THE BRICKLAYERS' HEADQUARTERS,
Sth and E streets, this morning considerable in
terest was shown, and the situation was very
generally discussed. A prominent officer and
member of the union said that SO long as the
issue was on the eight hour movement it was a
local matter only; now that the master masons
by making an issue on the cards made 1t an
International issue, or in other words were
fighting the International union instead of the
local union. There was already apparent to-
day, he said, a division in the ranks of the
Master MasOns association. Some of them had
come in this morning and accepted the terms
of the union. One man would take twelve
bricklayerS this evening on union terms, and
four or five other bosses would also engage men.
Another officer Of the union said that there
were nine hour bosses and eight hour bosses.
The union proposed to protect the bosses who
%ers he or
Master Masons' association, who opposed the
union. The eight hour bosses included such
men as Zephaniah Jones, John F. Miller Joseph
Pearson, James Hughes and Robert Clarkson
They recognized eight hours and the cards.
The nine hour bosses would not recognize the
cards, and were uuQuestionably trying to
dlsorganize the Bricklayers union. 1--WE are
going to work" said the officer, "at the rate of
so cents an hour-$4.5O for nine hours work
and 81 for eight hours work and keep our
cards. We work only eight hours on Satur-
day, and we will ask only 81 for that. We will
give the nine hour bosses In that way SO cents
q week. Men who want to work eight hours
can continue to do SO without any disadvant-
age. We think we already see that our plan is
working successfully, for the members of the
master masons' association are coming TO us
to arrange tor men to go to work.
THE HoD-CARRIERS ASSEMBLY
at a meeting last night decided to work nine
hours at $2.25 or eight hours at So day and
stick to their cards The hod-carriers will ad-
just their hours to those ofthe bricklayers.
The jOurneymen plasterers have made con-
tracts for a considerable number of houses.
Members Of the plasterers assembly say they
have been asked to estimate on q number OF
houses, contracted for with the understanding
that the work should be done by union men,
and on which the work has been delayed by the
employers refusing to accede to the demands OF
the union.
The jOurneymen plumbers to-day captured
five plumbers whom they say the employers
brought here last night from Philadelphia. The
imported men said that had they known the
state Of affairs here they would not have come.