The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-28
TIE BUILDING TRADES STRIKE,
Tho Latest Reports About tho Trouble.
The Stonemason's Demand,

on Mcunesuay tue following commu'
nication, written on letter head OF
Local Union No. 8, Carpenters Brother
hood, and scaled with the seal Of tho
union, was received by ]. A. Holiday
K Son:
WHEELING, March %, 1890.
Mestrs. J. a. Ho4ttidy & Son;
GENrLEMEN:-1am instructed 10 notify
YOU that the Carpenters have had a
committee Of five appointed since Feb
ruary ojtt. 1890, to meet with a like
committee OF Carpenters employers in
conference. They arc ready at any time
and place you may name.
Fl. ALEX. BEnour, RS.
Investigation showed that the same
communication had been received by all
tho other planning mill owners In this
city and In tho surrounding towns where
the carpenters are on strike. &C..
Concerning, tho matter, the carpenters
say they arc willing that their commit.
tee shall meet with any committee
composed only OF those who en-.
psoy carpenters, but that they do not
want to negotiate With n committee com.
posed.almost entirely Of men who do
not employ carpenters, and who know
nothing concerning the trade or It's
peculiar workings. That is the reason
they will not meet with the committee
OF the Builders' Exchange; but they are
willing to meet with any five or seven
men in tho Builders Exchange who EN-.
ploy carpenters. avs
On the other hand, two planning mill
owners in speaking OF the communica.
ton, agreed on the following statement:
"Such circulars Scnt out to individuals
aud firms will receive no attention what.
ever. The employers Of carpenters have
no association, but arc joined with all
tho other builders In the Builders Ex.
change, and the Builders Exchange
must settle all our differences. Further,
tho strike is n complicated matter and
includes all the building trades, hence
1t must be settled by n committee com.
posed OF all those trades, so that none oil
them will have cause for complaint on
occount Of misrepresentation. The Ex.
change has committee composed OF one
man who employs men in each trade,
appointed especially to settle this strike,
and that committee Is the only one that
can settle 1t.
Again, any member Of the Builders
Exchange attempting to settle the strike
on his own account is liable to fine oil
so or $40, as tho Exchange may see fit
to- impose, because each member OF the
Exchange is bound to abide by the de.
clsion OF the committee mentioned, and
the Exchange has the power to enforce
these rules. II committee OF carpen.
tiers cares to meet with the Exchange's
standing committee, that committee will
meet with them, and has the power to
settle tho differences between them and
tho Exchange. On our side, we are
willing for one employer Of carpenters
TO represent US all, and the carpenters
must meet him with the other members
Of the committee" ,0
a contracting atone mason said yester.
day that he had been informed on indis.
putable authority, that the stone masons
at their last meeting decided to acpede
to the demand that they work by the
hour but would insist on 80 cents an
hour. The Exchange offered to nav
80 SO cents IN hour from the first but in.
sisted that the men be paid only for the
hours they work, ~
"This," said the master mason quoted
above, LEAVES only $50 cents a week
difference between tho two sides, and it
will IN all probability be settled before
long, The Exchange will, I think, pay
the ~ cents an hour, without dissent,
provided the workmen will work by the
hour. BY such settlement, both sides
VII! have gained point, and honora
will rest easy. The exchange will have
won its per hour plan Of payment, and
the men will have gained their I'D
Yancg."
A we'll known planning mill man said
Yesterday that the rejoicing the carpen.
tiers have been having over the strike
benefits they arc receiving is all bosh.
Producing a copy Of the constitution and
bylaws Of the brotherhood OF Carpen.
tiers and Joiners he turned to article 90
section 3 WHICH reads Us follows:
"a local union desiring assistance
from the United Brotherhood can not
order strike until legal authority has
been received from the general Execu.
tive Board to, do so, All local strikes
without sanction Of the General Execu.
tive Board shall be at the sole risk OF
the local union aud should be discour.
aged, aud fenAers the local union liable
to expulsion from the United Brother.
hood"
This rule" said he, "was not COM
piled with, and for that reason the Gen
eral Executive hoard Of the Carpenters
Brotherhood refused to allow the bene-
fits, although they did recognize the
strike. Secretary Mcguire did, how
ever, send them $3.50, as a donation.
This action Of the Executive Board 30
displeased the members OF the local
Union that they Immediately sent the
$3.50 back to Mcclure, and at the same
meeting appropriated from the funds Of
local union enough 10 pay each man s..
But even that was Illegal, BECAUSE they
passed the resolution so appropriatiny
tho money after ten o'clock at night
while the bylaws Of tho brotherhood
say that no money shall be appropriated
after Q p. M"
Last week the carpenters and timers
had a little aet.to concerning the matter
Of putting up metal ceiling and siding
on buildings. The carpenters had heen
doing the work whereyer it game in a
Job on which they were employed. The
timers looked upon this as an intrusion
upon their trade, and demanded that
the carpenters discontinue the work snd
contine themselves to their own lines.
The matter was referred to the Building
Trades Council, and the tinners' de-.
maHde we're sustained,
IT. is expected that there will be a
strike among the carpenters in Bellairc,
beginning next Tuesday. The men have
damanaed m advance Of twenty-five
cents II day, aud the contractors have
said they will not pay it. Dubois & Nc
Coy. the, only planning mill in Hellaire,
belong to the, Builders l.xchange here,
and cannot grant the advance. :,
"a, A Pleasing Sense
OF health and strength .ouowed and OF
ease aud. comfort follows the use OF
Syrup OF Figs, rs it acts in harmony with
nature to eaectually cleanse the system