The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-06-19
A LITTLE HASTY.
Perhaps the Founders Should
Have Conferred.
How Building Trades Unions May Join the
strike-Evicting Miners-Many Pic
mics and Boycotts.

The IRON holders strike was the chief topic OF
conversation in labor circles yesterday.
Union men generally In the building trades
say that the manufacturers and founders do not
realize what a bunder they have made ip declin-
Ing to hold conference with the molders. As
President Valentine put IL:
mo one knows what the result OF the confer
eDce would have been. We might have made
more concessions than the founders imagine.
Our letter said nothing about terms, and no one
was authorized to speak of the conditions under
which we would have come back"
Mr. Valentine was asked whether 1t would
have been possible for a treaty to have been
made by which the shops would be big enough TO
hold both union and non-union men. lie laughed
and declined TO give any opinion further than to
say: "We would probably have agreed on some-
thing and IL is not TOO late yet for them to talk
business"
LITTLE HAsTY.
James Ker r, one OF the proprietors OF the Occi-
dental Iron Works, was seen, and he admitted
that the manufacturers were probably little
haSty in refusing 10 hold conference with The
strikers, but he said that they we're almost driven
to decline because Of the attitude of the non-unon
workmen now engaged In the foundries.
"These men are on the alert" he said. land as
soon as they heard OF Tie proposition 10 confer
they were afraid that conference would I'M
peril their positions. Therefore they were I'M
easy about their own positions"
Tie striking molders also believe that, but for
the fear that the nonunion men would strike,
the manufacturers would have consented TO the
conference.
LIABLE To co OUT.
r. s. Moore OF the Rsdon lion Works stated
that the paltern-makeIs ale lhe only workmen
who aIe liable TO go out on strike. 1--WE can
get along without them,' lie said. And for
that matter their sympatheS and financial aid
are now and have been from the start with the
m olders We have only ten pattern makers
here and we could supply their places. The
machinists viii not 60. They are an entirely
different class of men,"
Tie RIsdon Company has secured house
keeper and fixed up a home for the non- union
men at Thirteenth and Howard streets. Mr..
Moore said that the men are all armed, and all
are going out TO behave and attend 20 their own
business.
1T will be a bad plan for union molders to
fool around that house." said MIR. Moore, "for
they have no business there. we have had no
Threats OF violence, aid when our men can come
and go unframed The beginning OF the end has
Come"
AN IMPORTANT ASPECT.
One aspect OF the question which has hereto
fOIe not been emphasized, according 10 The state
menis OF union men III various trades, Is Tie TACT
that the Federated Trades aud all OF the sepa-
rate unions viii refuse 10 do any work on build
ings which GET their iron from any OF The non.
union fUundrles. IL the trades thus cooperate
ana delay Throughout all those vacations which
employ builders, carpenters, decorators or any
OF the traces HAT are unluniZed,
II Is understood That The founders have great
hopes that Their machiDists Will not leave them,
and IL is reported III labor circles that the ma
ehnlsts Will not voluntarily leave the shops.
However, they STAND ready 10 quit work when
ever they are requested by the molders SO To do
Thus far the mOlders have urged them TO remain
al Work, hoping N lime 10 win their neht With
out TesoItDg 10 this step.
A sCRIMNAGF,
Joe Bertrand and Frank UreIl, two non-uniOn
men at the Fulton, report that they were fol
lowed 10 the ferries on Tuesday, when on their
way to Oakland. BY about twenty-five union
plckets. They say that TWO plckets, one OF
whom was Thomas Nealson, followed them TO
Oakland, where they were warned 10 urn back.
They would not CO." said Bertrand, who is Il
FIenchnan, and almost pounded the face of
Nealson, aud the other man ran ana shouted for
tie police" AS Bertrand weighs but 1lG pounds
the Futon managers feel that lie Is plucky EN-
plOye. Bertrand says that the moment that lie
ana Urell left the foundry picket gave shrIll
whistle and others from alleys and secret places
came to his rescue.
President Valentine of the Molders Union
said IN reference to The story: Nealson is not
moluer at all, nor Is lie member OF the union.
lie was al Que lime cOIe-mdkeFs apprentice.
II twenty-five union men, bent Oh mischief,
had followed those fellows they would mol have
got Out alive, but our men do not mean violence.
They VIII not hurt anybody. II Is their mission
rights and quit the foundres. but they have no
Intention OF doing Violence"
THE PAY QUESTION.
Another nOn-uuion molder tried to get his pay
from The Union Iron Works, as Tie story runs at
mold ers' headquarters aud lie found an elastic
TO 1t which kept IL back. II Is believed that
there will be trouble when the company tries TO
pay The men by depositing The money III the
Security Savings Bank In their name. Leonard
Mayer, one OF the n-unon men who went
East without his money, assigned his account
OF $50 to Mr.. Valentine, who has been I'M
able TO draw 1t. He says that every non-unl0n
mans account is accompanied by a list Of
serve the right TO delay tthe payment OF Tie
money until they LOOK into the question care
fully and Identify the men. " Wnrn the men at
tempt 10 get their money" SAID he, there Is
always hitch in the Ted-tapery, aud you Will
see fun over that yet"
THE UNION CAUSE.
The molders believe that tie only object which
" They only want 10 destroy unionism." said MIR.
Valentine, ana every labor organization on this
coast is pledged 10 support Us. Do not think we
Will see our cause die. No And tell you that
the cruisers cannot be bulk here with this strike
on, 10 matter what they say"
A POSITIVE DENIAL.
The molders positively deny the statement OF
applied to charitable societies for aid They
claim 10 have paid out since the strike So oil
In regular weekly Instruments TO the regular
mon, $1,000 10 boys and about $4,000 TO pickets
and extras, besides $4,000 in sending Eastern
men home and Otherwise carrying on their fight.
There was rumor last night at molders' head
quarters that there Is about to be strike in
Pennsylvania. IL this occurs, 1t VIII cause large
demand for nOn-uhiOn men and some OF those
who came here from that stale VIII probably
turn. The molders did not nave much faith that
the report was true.