Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-02
LABOR TROUBLE.
All the worIornen Walk Out of the Oc-
dental Foundry.

All the Worlonaen Walk Out of the Oc-
dental Foundry.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1st-A short time
&go the holders Union, which has quite
a large membership, at a regular meeting
passed certain regulations, which in effect
allowed journeyman to do only a certain
amount or work in a certain number OF
hours, and the amount was to constitute q
days work rule was also was passed
regulating the number of apprentices that
should be allowed in every shop and the
the regulation was made that the proprie
tors might have one apprentice to every
eight journeymen. The old wages, how.
ever, were to be maintained under the new
rules.
The proprietors of the boundaries felt en-.
titled to have something to say about the
affair; but no attention was paid to them
and the union proceeded to enforce the
rules as passed. The trouble originated in
the Occidental Foundry on FRS: street
owned by Messrs. Steige & Kerr and resulted
In the discharge of some of the workmeu
for refusing to do what was considered 8
fair days work.
The union did not hesitate to say thai
the men would have to be reinstated. This
view was not taken by the proprietors, aud
they informed the union men that they
but it did not prevent the union men from
putting a boycott on the establishment and
narrowing down the force go as to cripple
the shop. AS work had to be done and
men were desired, the proprietors asked
the union courteously for men, but were
refused on the ground that the men dis
charged for upholding the union laws had
not been renstated. To the demand for
reinstatement the proprietors would not
aoeede, and they determined, if the union
refused them men, that they would put
boys to work, and this morning three APP
prentices were brought in to help ont. The
journeymen molders refused to proceed
with their labors on account of the placing
of the three boys at work and walked out
in body. This naturally resulted in a
suspension or all work, and the lGborers,
coremakers and molders who are now out
of employment number about forty-five
At the time that the first discharge of
men occurred. referred to above, for the
non-performance of a fair days work, one
of the persons was President j. F. Valen-
tine of the union.
1t is believed that all of the proprietors
will refuse TO listen to the present demands
of the Iron-molders' Union, and the laws
as passed will have to be modified. AL
though limit is placed on the amount of
work to be performed no reduction of
wages is made, and the proprietors of the
different foundries claim that they are as
much empowered TO regulate the financial
part of the bargain as anybody.
When called on by reporter, the pro-
prietors of the Occidental Foundry said
they, were very sorry to lose the men, as
large number of them did not desire 10 go
out, but were compelled to. The matter
was discussed pleasantly by the proprietors,
who stated that they did not like the idea
of stopping work, but they concluded that
it was high time TO have something to say
about the manner in which affairs should
be conducted in the shop. A pleasant
word was spoken for the force which had
gone out, and it is barely possible that a
modification of the existing laws will be
made and the breach between employers
and employees closed up.
MORE WILL 60 OUT MONDAY.
SAX Francisco, March 1st.-Mondsy
there will be strike in twelve iron foun-
dries, including the Union Iron Works,
the Rolling Mills, the Steel Works, Jack
sorts foundry, W. T. Garratt's, the City
Iron, the Pacific Iron Works and the Ris-
don Works.
The reason for the strike is that the
foundries and iron works in which the
strike will take place belong to the asso-
citation. which recently resolved that after
the 1O.h of this month they would not be
bound by the rules of the union as to
wages, hours of labor and apprentices.
The union looked upon this as declara-
ton of war and, and, will make their first
advance on Monday.
This will place 900 men out of employ
ment and affect the iron trade generally.