Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-04-06
STILL UNSETTLED.
Yesterdays Conference Between the Build
ers' Exchange and Trades Council
COMMITTEES RESULT IN NAUGHT
But Good Deal of Talk---ReSOluhOns
offered by Both Sides.
AN ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE.

| lngS conference being uniaNOraDle.
When the conference adjourned
Thursday evening the prospects Of a
settlement were much brighter than at
any time since the Inauguration Of the
strike, and people had begun to feel that
the disastrous trouble would be settled
and the pent-up building operations al
lowed to proceed on their natural course.
/ But this was not TO be, and now another
rock has arisen on which the two sides
to the controversy have split.
The conference was called for nine
o'clock, and reporters from the various
papers in the city were invited TO be
present, and this time they were not re-
tired The committee on behalf Of the
Builders Exchange was the same as
usual and i'm addition TO it President
w. A. Wilson and Mr.. Ed. Holiday
were present. In addition to the Build
4 ing Trades Council committee, PreSi-
dent Rowland and Vice President Swartz,
OF the National Brotherhood Of Carpen-
terS, were present.
The meeting was organized by elect
ing Mr.. John $. Trimble chairman and
MeSsrs. ID. r. Brooks and w. A. Stoetzcr
secretaries.
At the first meeting of the Conference
Committee the Builders Exchange com
mittec presented the following set Of
resolutions for adoption:
Rcsolrod, That nine (9) hours be days
work, and workmen be paid by the hour.
Rcsolrcd, That msater builders be allowed
to work on their work without being a
member OF any labor organization
Resolved. That dealers be allowed to sell
customers without interference from their
workmen,
Rcsolrcd, That any employer be allowed
to discharge a workmen for neglect OF duty
or incompetency.
Resolrcd. That the question of wages be
settled in the month of December for the
coming wear, and no changes be made there
after for that year, and for the year Of
| 1890 the wages be left as they are at pres
ent.
Resolrcd, That all differences or grieV-
ances between employer and employees
shall be settled by Joint committee OF the
Builders Exchange and the trade union,
To which such trade belongs and said COM
mittee to have power to make settlement,
and the same shall be binding on both par
ties: but in no case is the wOrlNmen to be
called off work unless the said committee
fail to make a settlement after the eXplla-
ton of at least three days.
The stumbling block on this occasion
We the third .rcSolution. and that
couldn't be compromised, 50 the Trades
Council Committee was asked To present
a set of resolutions embracing what they
considered a fair settlement, and ycstcr-
day the following series of resolutions
were presented, as adopted by Carpen-
ters' Union No. at a meeting held Fri
day evening, April (:
Resolred. That nine hours be days
work. with eight hours on Saturday, and
all overtime be paid for at time and one
half time, and double time on Sunday
Rcsolrod, That Master Builders, pertain
ing to carpenters, only be allowed to work
on their own work. without being a mem
Der of any labor organization, providing
that any person becoming member OF any
carpenter firm in the future shall give sat
isfactorv evidence that he is bona tide
partner in said firm
RcSolrcd. That dealers be allowed TO sell
indiscriminately, provided, Union men are
not required to perform any labor thereon,
or that no Union man be required TO per
form any labor for any nOn-uniOn contractor
or any unfair person to whom material Is
furnished.
Rcsolr1d. That any employer be allowed
to discharge "a workman for neglect of duty
or incompetencv in the future as in the past
ResoIrcd. That on and after May ] we
will demand 20 per cent. advance over
present wages, and all future demands be
formulated in the month Of December, 10
take effect ou the first of April thereafter
Rcsolrcd. That all differences or grievan-
ces between employer and employe shall be
settled by Joint committee composed OF
men from that craft TO which they belong,
and in no case shall any workman becalled
of work until all necessary endeavorS
have been made to adjust the difficulty.
The conference struck stump ON the
very first resolution. That part relat-
ing to the eight hours on Saturday for
nine hours pay was objected to by the
Exchange. Mr. Brooks asked that II
the carpenters worked from 10 o'clock
on Saturday. would the employer have
to pay time and half for that hour after
it had already been paid for, and Mr.
SwartZ answered yes.
After a rather extended discussion OF
the first resolutions, on either SIDE, IL
was mutually agreed that the first two
resolutions offered by the Exchange
Committee and the Trades Council COM
mittec be laid aside. and that the rela-
tions existing between employers ana
omploves previous TO the strike be taken
as basis for future guidance.
Rut before the second resolutions were
taken ND the question arose as TO what
effect this action would have upon the
other trades represented in the two
bodies i'm reference 10 hours and pay.
and the fact then developed that the
Trades Council Committee had no power
10 make or accept any changes IN the
Carncnters' resolutions as offered. and
tbat the differences with other bodies,
If there were any, would have to be
settled with the respective unions
through the committee.
Then discussion arose. and the meet
ing never got beyond that point in the
resolution, but the discussion covered
rho whole trouble from beginning to
end and IL became so general that one
would never have imagined for an IN
slant that any particular point had come
nm for settlement. An hour or so was
occupied in this way, and altogether IL
was pretty lively hour, ana there WAS
lois of talk crowded into 1t.
At last Mr. Swartz pulled out a copy
If the bylaws governing the Builders
exchange and began reading them, to
wbich objection was offered by the EX-
nnanre Committee. as that was the EX-
changes private business. II came
obout that Mr. Swartz said the Carpen-
rer's Brotherhood did not recognize the
Rnilders Exchange; that the only body
tbov recognized in this matter was the
building Trades Council.
There was an immediate call for ad-
,onrnment by member OF the Exchange
Committee. But Mr.. Rowland arose ana
N.l.nd nnrmission 10 speak. He stated