The morning call., 1890-06-21
MOLDERS' CIRCULAR.
They Assure All Unions That
They Will Win.
Accusations That Bad Work Is Bsing Done
at tie Foundries-A New Delegate.
Other Labor Notes.

1t Is generally felt In labor circles that the
clash OF the iron molders and their late employ
ers is going to be from now hard fight TO the
finish, and that there will be quarter asked or
given until one side cries Hold, enough !"
The refusal Of the founders to hold a confer
ence has been denounced by every union that
has met since as stubborn, un.Amerlcan and
autocratic act.
There is trouble al the Pacific Foundry, where
the loss OF material by bunglng Is appalling.
Thursday night a huge furnace ring, which
weighs 5000 pounds, was lost The foundry has
sixty rings TO make, so the molders say, and out
OF five castings four were lost, some OF them
burned. Before the strike occurred the union
founders cast eleven of these rings without
single loss.
The Golden State and Miners Foundry lost
all its heats Thursday night" said President
Valentine, through gross negligence and H.
competence, and at Jackson's Foundry the
meter or cupola man Was discharged for casting
several thousand pounds in such way that IL
was as brittle as glass, and worthless; but the
cupola man claims that he did exactly as the
nom union foreman told him. If that is so, they
Will have more fun STILL"
WORK SPOILED.
II Is stated by union plekets that the ten men
and foreman OF The Pacific Foundry spoiled
nearly all OF their Thursdays work and that
their castings could have been put in q wheel.
barrow. Union men are laughing in their sleeves.
1he late foreman OF foundry said: They can't
bun US bit when we know what rotten work
they are doing. Why, every pound OF metal is
costing them 20 CENTS aud hey viii get tired OF
It, You hear talk that they have money. True
enough, and that is the very class OF men to
squeal first. Their souls are In their purses"
Pickets were on The alert for new men all day
yesterday, for WORD had been received that some
very Inferior Hnngailans aud Arabs had started
"A
who had his expenses paid out and was found
incompetent. Is now selling charms and beads
on The streets, and the mOlderS have Information
that he has written for some OF his friends TO Join
Mr.. SCOTS agency at Scranton. That Is the
class Of men who are coming" said Mr. Valen-
tue.
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
The war is going ou not only In San Fran
cisco but from here 10 Pennsylvania. Mr.. Nal-
entine has stationed more Than fifty men along
the ine OF the railways from here 10 Scranton.
The founders have agents in Pennsylvania who
are securing The country for help. Il ese agents
are net on pennsylvania soil by union m0lders
VINO have gone there. II is species OF bribery
warfare. Often foundryman will hire man 10
come here, and the molderS Will lind him ana
pay him more TO remain there. President Val
entine gives graphic description of The way the
foundrymen hunt cheap labor. He says;
IL Is costing them dearly back III Pennsyl.
yania. They have scab-hunters out all along
the line OF The Lehigh Valley Railroad between
Philadelphia and Scranton. There are many
men starving 10 death back there-men called
specially molders, men who can't do all-round
work, and who aIe thrown out during dull Times.
We can't blame The poor, half-starved. boss
driven and maltrealed wretches for coming. III
is question of life or death with them, aud We
pity them, although the manufacturers say We
beat Them"
SEVENTY NoN-UNIoN MEN.
The holders say that only seventy non-union
men are here now 10 take the place OF 1853 men
and iOrty-six boys who quit. Although this
season OF the year they need competent. pro-
ducing force of 200 men," added the molders.
do you think they can 60 on borrowing one
anOtheI's men and tossing work from one foun-
dry to another this way?" asked Mr.. Valentine.