The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-21
THE SONS OF TOLL.
Journeymen BARRIERS Will
Form a Union.
MINERS SENT TO WELLINGTON.
It is Charged That Employment Agen-
eies Send Them There Under
False Representations.

The journeymen BARRIERS Of this city win hold
q meeting at Chishoim's hall this evening at
O'Clock, for the purpose of organizing union
for tho protection of their interests, and also
the interests OF the master BARRIERS The jour-
neyrnen have long had this organization under
consideration and are backed by the labor or
CARNATIONS of the city. They represent the
only craft that is unorganized in the city. Their
purpose is to maintain rates for tonsorial work
The recent establishment of q number OF ten
cent shops has hastened the contamination OF
the novemeut for organization. The journey
men realize that q reduction of the rates means
a reduction OF their salaries, and they take this
means to prevent it
The Laborers' Protective Union yesterday,
through j. T. Crawford of its special committee.
accused the various employment agents in this
city OF sending miners to the Wellington mines
upou false representations The members OF
the committee claim that the different employ
ment bureaus in Seattle have been for the past
week and are now advertising for iaborers 10
send to those mines to take the places OF the
500 miners who are on strike. IL Is wen
known that the Dunsmuir Mining Company,
owners of the Wellington mines, ten days ago
discharged 500 union miners who had been on
a strike for several weeks. The Miners and
Mine Laborers' Protective Association immedi-
ately thereafter issued decree requesting all
miners and mine laborers everywhere to stay
away from the Wellington collieries, British
Columbia. until the Dunsmuir company ac-
ceded to the length ofworking day established
by the unions No settlement has yet been
reached and the mines are therefore idle.
1t is now claimed that the Seattle employment
agents are daily displaying advertisements for
miners to send 10 the Wellington mines. assur.
ing them immediate work there. Yesterday
committee from the Laborers' Protective Union
ant
agents here and attempted to stop proceedings
which they claim are fraudulent They found
one of the most prominent agents south of Yes
Ter avenue advertising in great display for 1850
miners to send Immediately to wellington; good
wages
The committee claimed that the above was an
cutter fake" on the unsuspectlug laborers; for
owing to the present existing conditions they
say IL is impossible for non-union men to get
work there, a fact which of course is well known
to all the union miners
Similar advertisements were found at the
other bureaus. The committee tried To stop the
hiring OF men, bat only partially succeeded.
The members of the Protective Association state
that their union win not permit non-unfon men
to go to work in the Wellington mines. and
that all fees received by employment agents
with that agreement are taken under false pre-
lenses because the agents are aware OF the cir
cumstances.
The various labor unions in this city have
raised $500, which has been sent to relieve the
strikers. The Protective Association has
also secured permission from Justice Miller
to circulate posters informing the miners here
of the exact condition of affairs at Victoria,
B. G.
The strike OF the Wharf Builders and Pile
drivers association, which occurred in this city
Saturday afternoon, has been amicably settled,
the contractors, Surber & Egan, having acceded
to the union scale of wages. About thirty men
had quit work.
There is much discussion among the unions as
to the number of brass bands that shall be in
the Labor day parade and their relative posi-.
tons. 1t is generallyithought four bands viii be
on hand.
The committee on arrangements for Labor day
were busy yesterday selecting prizes for the
sports.
The Western Central Labor Union and the
Bricklayers Union meet tonight in Louvre hall.