The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-14
THE CARPENTERS SIDB
oftho Big Building Trades Strike
Made Clear by One Of Them.
ANEW FIRM OF CONTRACTORS.
Gcisey Drothcrs Come Before the
Public for u Share orthc business.
=. An Outcome of the Strike. Il,
Wood Bros. Prospects.

Public for n Share orthc business.
An Outcome of the Strike.
Wood Bros Prospects.
The building trades strike continues
wtthoutmatedal change, except that cir
cumstanccs arc slowly getting in their
work toward u settlement. A great
many people arc needing building and
repair work done, and their necessity Is
creating m inventive geuious which Is
finding them relief and Is working out
the solution Of the problem. There are
quite number OF business men who
have arranged to move April !, and they
must have shelving arranged, counters
built and other ANAL repair jobs done
before the moving can conveniently be
done. Tho planning mills and contrac.
tors who are in the Builders Exchange
have no men TO DO the work, md the re.
suit Is, tina. the people wanting the work
done, hire the first persan to be had.
These single handed contractors have
trouble, however, in oblasniug lumber.
The dealers in the Exchange will not
sell to them, and Wood Bros haven't
the lumberto sell. All tho mills in Mar.
tins Ferry aud Bridgeport belong to the
Exchange, and the Bellairu dealers re-.
fuse to sell because they are either III
sympathy, or else fear the Exchange.
AS Il result lumber must be procured in
Moundsville or Steubenville, and double
freights and planin9-mill profits make it
4 little expensive before 1t gets here.
Yesterday Frank McNlullen and Her.
man Hess took contract for fitting up a
room for Mike Hearn's saloon on Six
teenth street, and several Main street
jobs which are In hurry have been let
to union carpenters. Wood Bros. re-.
ceived a small consignment of lumber
yesterday and have found firm Of lum-
Der dealers who will sell them all they
want. Their boiler and engine arc in
place, the shafting is all hung, aud some
OF the machinery is belted up ready for
use. They expect to be on deck inside
OF two weeks. t..-...,
Messrs. James, William, John and AL.
Geisey are all carpenters, and have all
been employed by Beltz, Flading 4 Co.
James has been engaged writing specif.
cations for that company's contracts
and experimenting its inside work for
quite while back, while the other
brothers have been working on and
supervising outside work. These gentle
men are all members OF the union and
have been trying harder than anyone
else to bring about IN adjustment of the
difficulty. They have been unsuccessful
and have decided to go into business on
their own account.
i They have several good jobs on hand
already and have had enough work of.
fered them to keep them busy several
months. They will make specially Of
fine work, such as store, Office, bank and
saloon fittings, and the better class Of
houses. They will make no effort to
secure.fence building and shed work.
1t was reported yesterday on what is
considered good authority, that John
Plant, one Of Klevis, Kraft 4 Co.'s best
men, has been employed by the Schmul.
bach Brewing company, at a good salary.
to superintend all their building opera.
tons and take general supervision Of the
plant and its maintenance. 1t was also
said that Mr.. Plant will employ. the
men needed, and buy the materials. and
proceed at once with the improvements
which tho company has had in couiem-
plation for some time. From the same
authority it was also learned that a
prominent contracting firm in this CITY
had forfeited the contract for the above
mentioned job, which was to cost $40.
900, because they did not begin tho work
last week. The information came too
late for yeriGcation. 4
The following interview occurred yes.
terday between m 1NTELLiaEScER re-
porter and well known. aad thoroughly
responsible and reputable member ri
the Carpenters Union:
The. reporter asked, frpt, "What are
the real differences between the Build
ers' Exchange and the carpenters"
"1n the first place, the difference il
not really between the Builders Ex-
change and the carpenters as much as
between the carpenters and planning mill
men, unless the other members Of the
Exchange want to be included in an
effort to break up the Carpenters Union
The difference, however, is on the mat.
ter Of who the men in the planning mills
shall work for. The Exchange Com.
mittee came to US with demand that
we should sign an agreement to work
PLUMBER Tor anyone from whom thew
might get orders. We refused to acrea
to that, but did as concession, offer to
do away with the black list, and start
over again." =
is the black list?"
ut is list Of men, contractors and
workmen, who have not worked fair in
the past, aud who for various oQenses
against the Union, and accepted contract
ing rules, have been shut down on by
the Union.' .f .5a =
"How many ATE there on the lists7"
"Only about half a dozen, and wa
offered to wipe ont the black list-white.
wash all these fellows-and start over
as II no man in the city had ever done
IN unfair thing"
" AtN"s ~ Wv NAACiC4lCt DcLHtC yOuf
proposition and theirs? Does not the
wiping out Of the black list allow them
to sell to anybody7' E5, s.5. =
That's just the point that's not appar.
ent to those who do not study the mat.
ter. To wipe out the list, would allow
them for the time being to sell to any
one in the city, but We know that some
men won't tote fair, and we would be
forced 10 make now black list some
time, Their proposition prohibited this.
Further,we do not know who may come
into town from time to time, and want to
enter the building business. Now sun.
pose the Exchange would take notion to
break up the Carpenters Union-and we
have no assurance that they do not want
to, and have serious fears that they do
with tne carpenters under IN agreement
to work anything brought to them in
the mill, the matter would DO easy il
systematically carried on.
Suppose a planning mill man knows