The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-17
EIGHT HOURS A DAY.
Bricklayers Want shorter Days
Of Labor.
TO co MO EFFECT TO-DAY.
they Make = Corresponding Reduction
N Wages aaa VIII Force No One
Tnto ssrEke.

Alta meeting OF the Brieksavers UEion.
held last evening. II Vas decided % make
demand thiz morning for eight hours
work n IS rer aay. Instead Of nine hours
wcfk as IS per cay. and all individual
hrtek.ayers whose demands are Tot ac-
esdesi 10 vii stFIke Immediately
Tie movement d vel kmowa % al Goa
tracters and 30 strong o7positiea 70 i -
booked for. - q lnsi0FafY u them favor IL
However. there are : few builders vic
are dissatisfied and several bficklsyeEs wli
b. forced 70 strike 20 gain their object. All
lzst year nine hours q day constituted q
da3 work and 81 reF day the pay Tor the
same. Az meeting OF the Union held an
December. in sympathy with similar move
NESTS being inaugHrated al over the
United States, L was decides to make i5e
demand which viii today he made and
i.sst before New Years day The secretary,
II. T. Mills. acting under the unloIs's
orders. sent a eopv ST the following coai-
uianiea;ion to every contractor in the city;
sKArrEz. jan 1. 1880.
Sir I am instructed bg this union 90 notify
yoH tnAs ca aud after this date the hours Of
iaAo wlIl be eight in nnsnIseF ard the rsmunefs-
tloi S.. II. Mills Cor. SEC.
i his being equivalent To q rate OF 61is
cents per honF and the men we're forfeit
ting 81 i day, the demand vas considered
modest one. When January 2the first
WORKING day in isN--eanie snow prevented
work ard the whole matter was held IN
abeyanec until such tine Is work was re-
sumed. IL was decided yesterday 70 call
special meeting 70 take action aud last
evening notice vas given. The meeting
was held at the corner If Front and Aadi-
son streets. and was largely attended. The
greatest unanniliy Of opinion prevailed.
The following resolution was adopted By
unanimous vote
Reselngd. That al members If this union quit
work this friday U.oraing nniess given a guar.
sntee from each labor contractor that their
waves lie 500 f,lr eight hours
TIE following address refuting certain
statements made in connection with the
past actions OF the nnion bearing on this
case WAS next prepared and adopted when
the meeting adjourned.
10 an article that appeared IN an evening
paper respecting the dffieIities that have arisen
nstween the contractors Of tals city aad the Sc
attic Brick ayers union. there are several mae
ctiraees, nat 90 say mendsciousl statements
iest can not 50 ont 70 the world uncon-
tfaaicfad
First There Is moi reduction Of hours withou,
tbs wages we're y for nine hours. 50 onF de
msn9ing an hour less for dollar less j. quite a
ia ana equitsble arrangement.
Sgsond--Tne above true statement viii prove
conriusively false the "extertion" diiascd npon
so freely.
Third We think that contractor" will be
rather disappointed when he finds ont the num.
her Of son nnien men, for the fact is there are
not SIX scAhs IN Seattle.
Fonfth-=Then as 10 his Kind remark Of i'm.
porting a few carloads We think that this
- the way he really weu,d like TO get seah
ha7Gs pHt them IA cattle cars ike brute beasts,
AID keep them down a. sach
Fifth A 10 orr registry we'll, time will shew
hat tho contractors who object TO having their
employees work the standard hours that Uncle
erask and human endurance he so fceiinrly al.
ladies' GO j. nothing more or less thap bud 10
misleAd the pablie
Official hy order OF the committee, G. Conpor.
l. +. Redman. II Mills.
The hriekiayers feel confident that they
will gain their point. They assert that
majority OF The contractors favor the plan
and thai the few who oppose it cav easily
he forced 10 accept il. The union is 40
strong, ard there are not over half dozen
non.union hricklayers in the city. This
adds 10 the strength oil their cause. They
desire il understood that in case there are
bat few reiusals from contractors this
morning. that only those hricklayers whose
demands are not granted Will strike