St. Paul daily globe., 1886-05-06
LOCAL EAB0 H.
Strikes, Old and NeNv--The Cabinet
makers Keep Things q Oing.


makers Keep Things Going.
ssI want you to send a man up to the house
right awav," said trim lit lie lady, as she
bouuced into plumbers shop yesterday af-
ternoon. .'The water wont run off in the
lyath-tub, and some men that were working
down in the cellar jammed the waste pipe
that runs from the kitchen and it leaks, and
I think I'll have new sink put in anyway"
s.Weli we cant doit this afternoon anyway,
and probably not before the last of the week"
was the reply, as the plumber stuck his hands
in his pockets and locked out the window.
I'VE have got good deal of work ahead of
,s and have but very few men. You see the
plumbers are most all on strike and work
has to wait
20 YES. forgot. heard about the strike,
too Mercy, L hope there won't be any shoot
ing here"
The plumber laughed and assured her that
she was in no personal danger.
''Well, you will send up man as soon as
you can, won't your
Yes, or I'll go up myself about Saturday"
said the plumber, and as the lady hoiSted her
parasol he turned to the reporter, who asked
him if the public was getting III good many
kicks on the situation.
mo nearly everybody understands the sit
uation and is willing to wait until we can tend
to the work. Several men told me to-day that
they would wait until we got men, and one
man who wanted a job done said he would
wait year if necessary. In a good many
cases public sympathy is with the strikers,
but in this case it seems to be with u.s. -
w. j. Freaney said that there was no
change in the situation, and that some of
the strikers had visited some of the boys he
had at work trying to get them to cult.
THE SToNECUTTERS.
The stonecutters who yesterday heard, in
Imagination, the clear. regular clicks of
union points on the Kasota stone of the
court house job did not feel SO confident
YESTERDAY afternoon. The arbitration COM
mittee that Mr. Breen was expected to ap-
point failed to materialize.
On Tuesday cabinet makers in the en-
ploy of the st. Paul Furniture company.
struck for nine hours work and ten hours
nav. Twelve fnishers and machine hands
went out with them. The manager said
Yesterday that the wages averaged S2.25 a
dav. which was higher than was paid at anv
other factory in the West. The men find no
fault with the wages, but want the nine
hours, and would probably be willing to take
nine hours pay. The manager says that
they will agree to work nine hours at nine
hours pay whenever any other firm in the
citv VIII do the same. Some of the strikers
went back to work yesterday. A committee
from the strikers was III conference With
the firm yesterday. and an agreement will
in all probability be reached this morning
At COrlies, Chapman d brakes factory
on Eagle street. eighteen cabinetmakers
have been working at an average wage of
50. Yesterday they informed the super
intendent that they had struck for nine
hours at ten hours pay and were imme-
diately told to get their tool chests out with
them. AS payment was refused until the
order was complied with, several
drays were loaded up during
the afternoon and the men were all paid
off. The superintendent said they could
easily do without help i'll that line for two
months and they could get all the help they
wanted, as applications for work were
made every day.
The name of A. Witt has been stricken
from the boycott committee of the Bakers
union.