Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-20

Loe proceeded to say that not one of the
carpenters would drive nail fer a mem
Der of the builders exchange until the ex-
change had made concessions similar to
those made by the builders union. He
then reviewed the agreement with the
builders union by sections.
The union had promised to keep faith,
Mr.. Loe said, with the non-union men
who took part in the strike, "and
now he said, ''before you start out
to apply for job you call on the secre-
tary of the Carpenters and Joiners'
union and get working card, which will
carry you until June l. Without it you
will never get a job in Dallas. You
union men, when you start out to look
for a job take your card with you. -
Then he proceeded to enlarge on the
beauties of systematizing the trade and
issuing cards to those only who are COM
petent workmen. Those who are not
competent may become apprentices until
they learn. The working day, under the
agreement, begins Saturday aud ends
Friday, and workmen are to be paid
off ut the building. ''There will
be no more running over the city half the
day Monday to collect last week g wages.
The contractor who has not the money to
pay his workmen has not a d-n bit of
business contracting and he will soon get
out. He predicted an increase in wages
because, he said the hour knocked of
would create greater demand for work.
men, and the contractors, he asserted,
did not care for the extra because 1t
comes out of the pocket of the man hav-
ing the house built. He said they were
ready to meet the builders exchange in
conference anywhere except in the
builders hall, and this was pointed with,
"Don't go into the house of our enemies,
boys, if you do you will get licked. -
"When we get the contractors to sign
up the millmen will come to time, too.
If they don't electric lights will be put
in Fetzer's mill and it will be run
twentY-four hours a day with three sets
of men drawing ten hours pay -
FetZer favored the strikers from the
start.
Here the labor leader got in a good
one on Mr.. Loeb, the acting mayor. He
said he met Loeb one day and knowing
he was going to ask about the strike he
got in his work first, by asking:
Chow is the strike, Mr.. Loeb?''
81 don't know. Vat you dinks about
lt?'
OH, II ali
even, dells you. You fellers will
want eight hours der next ding
"That S whats the matter, - continued
the speaker, "lt's eight hours they
have been fighting. This contract Is in
force only until the LIST of May, 1891, and
they know the eight-hour movement is
bound to come.
Contractors not members of the build
ers' union or the builders exchange, he
said, must sign the resolution calling for
nine hour day and ten hour pay before
they could get men to work for them.
He asserted that If the contractors who
are holding out do not give in those who
have given in will get their contracts
from them, because, he said, people
would not stand further delay with their
work.
he then read the following list of mem
bers of the builders union for whom the
strikers were authorized TO begin work
tomorrow morning; but as only few
men were needed he requested those who
could hold out for few days longer not
TO apply for work, so that those who
have large families and who are pushed
with rent and grocery accounts could be
relieved:
D.. Cooper, W. 81. Brunson, Cook s
Solomon, John Paul, Pat O'Dwier, W.
NJ. Page, Henry Coleman, y. Nelson.