The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-19
TIE CAEpENTEES' BROTHERHOOD

Has Fcw Words TO Say About tho Build
ers' Exchange md tho Present Trouble,
To TIC Editor ofMt In'eAlgenscr.
SIR:-Allow rs TO consider a few state
ments rs set forth in recent publications
concerning the present difficulty in the
building trades, taking first tho strike OIL
the stoncmasons. They have simply
asked for an advance of twenty-five
cents per day; the hour day on Satur.
day is what they have been getting for
The past two years, aud their demand
that they shall continue to have an S.
hour day on Saturday has been granted
hy the stone contractors who do not
belong to tho Builders Exchange, and
would have been granted by the few
stone contractors who do belong TO
the Builders Exchange il the lords Of
that body would have consented; it is
easy seen that the spirit OF tyranny
visits that holy body occasionally as
well rs the labor organizations.
In the matter Of the committee of one
from each trade, from the Builders' Ex-
change,meeting with committee OF one
from each trade from the Building
Trades Council, the Carpenters Brother.
hood would have been treated in most
unfair manner, as it was proposed by
the Exchange to be represented on the
committee by two men engaged in the
carpenter business, while tho carpenters
proper (tbc working men) would have
had but one representative; under such
condition We understand that they could
out-vote us in case they failed to out
reason us.
The Exchange appears to be in peck
OF trouble because we have not me.
With their committee OF eight to seven
TO adjust the existing difficulty, when
the fact is we have no grievance but
that stated in one OF their own articles
as coming from tho Secretary of Chr.
penters' Union No. 3-that the stone
masons' trouble DO settled, also the
trouble existing between the carpenters
and Wilson l. Co.; that is all there is in
THIS trouble that is so disastrous to the
general public. All this TRADE OF ground.
less resolutions is deception to blind
the public. For example-their first
resolution resolved, that nine hours he
a days work, when every one knows
that nine hours for days work was
established two years ago, and those who
have been governed by the rule have
not asked for change, Sec
ond, resolved, that dealers be a.
lowed to sell to customers without
interference from their workmen: the
fact is the dealers have not been re-
quested to not sell to any fair dealing
contractors, merchants, manufacturers
OF any kind, bankers, druggists, grocers,
or any one who does not array them
selves against US to destroy our inter.
ests and consequently to reduce our
ability to make decent and honest liy-
ing; but we claim both a legal and di-
vine right to have voice in the matter
OF what terms we will work for these or
any other gentlemen, and when it comes
to US consenting to enter into con-
tracts with Lien TO do all we can to nd
vance their interest with our muscle and
brain for 4 mere days wages, and at the
same time grant them the privilege OF
making sales Of our labor in way that
would bind burdens on our backs and
letters on our wrists, we are forced to
say We respectfully decline.
The next resolution is that EN-.
ployers be allowed to discharge a work
man for neglect OF duty or incompetency
such demand is groundless, for EN-
ployers have always had that privilege
and it IS not interfered with by unions,
and the carpenters, who seem to be the
greatest eye'soro, have no grade of wages,
In regard to a section of their bylaws
that they bc allowed to 90 before the
public, we have this to say: Their sec
ton is all well and good as far NJ il
goes, but when they say that the Build
ers Exchange was organized for the pro.
motion OF the building trades in Wheel
ing and vicinity, they mean promotion
ior themselves and nobody else, for il
one don't belong to the Builders Ex-
change one gets no promotion. And still
further, why is it that they sra always
throwing their slurs and insults at the
Carpenters Union Of this city by printing
their resolutions and other matter !?
They say that in order to correct
wrong impression in the minds of the
public and especially the labor unions,
they printed the section of their by
laws to which we refer above, but as far
as this goes the public and the labor
UNIONS especially, well know why the
builders Exchange was organized. A
sample OF 1t has been shown us in the
past week where new planning mill in
the lower end OF the city had ordered
i've car loads OF lumber and on the day
they expected the lumber they received
q letter from the lumber firm stating
they could not send it, for the simple
reason we buppose, that they were not
promoting the interest OF the Builders
Exchange. Respectfully yours,
COMMITTEE OF TIE CARPENTERS BRoru.
ERHOoD.
Hheeling, ". Ta., March IS.
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