Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-14
WILL AFFECT THOUSAND MEN
Union Carpenters Demand a Com
Piiance With Their Rules.
CONTRACTORS MUST COMPLY.
Or There viii BE Strike-The Men
Want Better Hours and Better
Pay-The Plumbers Strike
Labor Notes.
CONTRACTORS MUST COMPLY.
Want Better Treatment.

A strike of all The carpenters 10 the city is
imminent. The union rules call for nine
hours work day at 80 cents an hour, and,
in case extra time is put in, As cents an hour
for such extra time. The carpenters claim
that many contractors in the city are forcing
their men to work ten hours and paying
them only 30 cents for the extra time, and
others still are only paying 271a cents per
hour throughout the day. The unions nave
taken the matter in hand, and within few
days will make demand upon the bosses,
but whether that demand shall be for COM
piance with the rules as they now stand,
nine hours a day at 80 cents and As cents for
extra time, or for eight hours day and nine
hours pay, has not yet been de-
termned, but is now being care.
fully considered by the supreme council
and the different unions. If the iourneymen
make demand, they declare that they will
either get what they want or strike. They
claim that out of the 300 carpenters in the
city, over one.half belong to tho differeut
unions end a sufficient number are controlled
by them to bring the number of men who
would walk out in the event a strike was
ordered, up to fully two-thlrds of all the car
penters employed in the city. '"There are a
good many carpenters in the city," said Mr..
TAFT, Il prominent member and an officer OF
Union Il, ''who were driven out of Iowa by
the dullness caused by prohlbition, and these
have come TO Omaha. They are, for the
most part, class of men who wont join the
unions, and, in the case we make a stand, it
will be with these men that we will be OBJ
liged to contend, but as wo have a
large majority and the best financial
backing. can see but one result and that
is victory for u.s." In the event of strike
the local unions expect the aid of the union
mon in South Omaha, notwithstanding the
fact that tneir rules now provide for ten
a lok a a mi ynnu
that the carpenters employed by Mr.. Rose
water, personally, on The BEE building are
the only ones in the city, who now receive 45
cents an hour for extra time.
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Tho iourneymen plumbers strike has been
on nine weeks tonight, and there Is still no
indication OF settlement The bosses,
seemingly, are but tiittle troubled about the
situation and declare that they arc doing
very we'll, indeed. A canvass was made OF
the principal shops yesterday and the bosses
reported plumbers and gasfitters at work as
follows: John Rowe z Hussey Il Day 8,
Milton Free 2, James Barnacle 4, John Han
| nigan A, Graham Park 5.
The bosses also declare that there are as
many non-raior men employed ir the city as
there arc union men, and that the strilScrs
cannot affect them or induce them to leave
| work. The iOurneymen, on the other hand,
! declare the entire statement Of the bosses as
| 10 the number OF men they have employed.
| and that there are as many non-union men
in the city, false.
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1--WE have the bosses when we want
| them," said one of a knot of the strikers,
] gathered near their hall yesterday morning.
"Thcre is not day goes by" he continued,
| but what we take men away from them
| during this strike we have increased the
| membership In the union considerably, by
| initiating non-union men whom the bosses
brought from the east to work for them.
| The men they have at work now are mostly
incompetent jobbers."
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II is possible that there is misunder.
| standiag as TO the cause OF grievance now
existing. The bosses say they do not refuse 10