Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-09
. THE WAR BEGINNING.
Union Electricians to be
Called Out Tonight.
GLASS HOUSES ARE IDLE.
Six Factories Close on Account of
DullneSS in Trade.
TrnEHT TNTN
ASS HOUSES ARE IDLE.
NAILS ADVANCED AT WHEELING

A meeting of the Electrical Union was
held last night. Its Press Committee stated
as follows: Members of the union working
for the Allegheny County Light Company.
the East End Electric Light Company, the
keystone Construction Company, and COM
panies doing work for those Others will be
notified to-day to cease work at 6 o'clock In
the evening. Union men working after
that time will be declared as outside the
union, and will be treated in accordance
with the principles of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor.
The committee stated that six of the wires
supplying the Union depot lights were of
the kind known as underwriters, which
is the cheapest wire in use for lighting pur-
poses, and quite insulated; that two-thirds
of the wires used by the company in Allie
gheny were of the same inferior description,
and that one of the Fifth avenue wires, as
far as Grant street, and six of the Carson
street wires were of the same kind. This
statement the committee desired to have on
record, in view of the recent accident in
Allegheny and In view of the fact that the
Fifth avenue wire-as a member OF the COM
mittee said from his personal observation
was worn in more than one place, and there
lore dangerous.
MARTIN MISREPRESENTED.
Regarding the statement that appeared in
an afternoon paper, charging Vice Presi-
dent William Martin, of the American
Federation of Labor, with opposing the
strike on principle, the committee stated
that, in their opinion, Mr.. Martin was mis-
represented IN the matter, and that the
statement was instigated by an official of
the Allegheny Light Company.
The inside emploveg of the A lleOheuv
Light Company and the East End Electric
Light Company have been subjected to con-
siderable pressure by the members of the
Electrical Union, the latter using every ar
gument to get the former to go out. A last
appeal will be made this evening by a COM
mittee from the Electrical Union, but that
1t will be fruitless is already assured. The
''ins' absolutely refuse to make "outs" of
themselves. Their arguments are hard to
answer. One of them who was seen last
night said:
s'The demand that we leave our work and
go out we consider unreasonable. 1t is the
dead of winter, and if we did go out the
company could speedily fill our places.
Then we would have the pleasing prospect
OF being indefinitely without work without
the satisfaction of suffering for a good
cause.
READY TO COME OUT,
''The 1S men Of the Virgin alley station,
the Is men OF the Allegheny City station
and the II men of the East End station have
determined to withdraw from the Electrical
Union tomorrow, if the Federation still in
slsts upon our coming out If general
strike is ordered we will quietly remain at
work. Not single carbon setter employed
by either of the three stations is in the
union, and not man either inside or out
side will 90 on a strike, no matter how many
orders are given BY tine Federation. As for
trades affiliated with the Federation, it re-
mains to be seen whether orders to strike
based upon our withdrawal from the Elec-
trical Union will have any effect.
SAT the present time we receive 81 75 for
eight hours work and every alternate week
"a hours of, and if we struck we might at
some future time be forced to accept 81 70 a
day and II hours work, as it was under the
old method.
81 see that Secretary Martin. of the A. A.
1. S. W., is reported as being against the
strike, and see no reason why the basis of
his opposition should not be made public
He knows that the light company offered its
carbon settlers, during the skirmishing be-
fore the first strike, eight hours with the
same pay they now receive to date from the
LIST of next April. This offer was rejected,
and Mr.. Martin has stated that the rejection
was not well-advised under the circum-
stances -