Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
CAME TO COMPROMISE.
P.J. McGuire's Unsuccessful Mission
to Pittsburg at an End.
OPEN LETTER TO THE BUILDERS.
The United States Tin Plate Company
Secures Its Charter.
IRON SCALE CONFERENCE STILL ON

IRON SCALE CONFERENCE STILL ON
The visit of P. j. Mcclure, General Secre-
| tary OF the Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners yesterday had the effect of putting
new life into the strikers, and the struggle
| gives promise of continuation with greater
v1gor than has characterized it at any time
since May l. Mr.. Mcclure spent all of the
day and good portion of last night confer
| riag with contractors and journeymen
| and will leave the city this morn
| ing again for his home. He held
two frutless conferences with mem
bers of the Master Builders Associa-
ton and then attended the meeting. of the
carpenters Council last night. At this meet
| ing the General Secretary announced that
| he had brought to Pittsburg money enough
| to supply the men for two weeks and at the
| end of that time additional aid to the extent
OF the strikers demands would be forth
| coming. With this assurance, the carpenters
voted unanimously to stand out until the
present difficulty is settled.
Proposition to Settle the Strike.
After the meeting adjourned Mr.. Mcguire,
in the presence of R. j. Davis, of the Strike
Committee, and William Martin, Superin-
tendent of the industrial department. of
the Carnegie interests, gave out the follow
ing statement and open letter to T. j. Hamil-
| ton, for publications:
81 called at the Builders Exchange to-day
at O'Clock, accompanied by X. J. Davis
sentatives Of the Builders Association
earlier in the day. The meeting was held in
the rooms of Architect Hodgson. Messrs
Hamilton, Fulmer and GLAND were
present. The conference lasted over
hour l represented to them the
serious injury this continued trouble is doing
both sides and the community, and after q
friendly discussion offered few PROPOSE
tiOnS the inStiOatiOn of varOu9
business men in the city whom had met.
told them would leave on the o'clock
train tomorrow and should they desire to
take action on any of the propositions to
heard from them. Hence address this open
letter"
The Open Letter to the Builders.
PTTTsBURG, June %, 1891.
'T. J. Hamilton. Chairman Master Builders Con-
ference Committee.
'.DEAR SIR-TheJprolongation of the present con-
test between the journeymen carpenters and EN-
cdedly injurious to the best interests of this COM
munity. 1t not only retards building operations
and keeps thousands out of employment but 1t is
hurtfu to business men, storekeepers and countless
other interests as well as serious financial loss to
to the intensity of spirit and bitterness of feeling
now existing and increases the unnecessary hostil
ity now appearing on both sides. The stubborness
SO far displayed by both employers and Journey
men should give way to a spirit of conciliation
aRd to ed a
& a xchsnse on ySa Mr. and
honorable manner asked you and your colleagues
among the he to weigh fully the tn tbS
trade dispute with the carpenters.
Two Propositions for Consideration.
I'm good faith now renew the two propositions
made you this afternoon, and which were not ac-
cepted by you your colleagues, and in the event
tl,aff T
public TO decide who Is responsible for the further
continuance of the present stagnatiOn of business
in e building ns Tef sp are
select any one of their number 10 meet me or the
of us to be vested with full power to settle the
present dispute and In the event that we cannot
reach an agreeable conclusion, that we call Judge
Collier or Judge Stowe or any other Judge of high
standing in this county to act as arbitrator.
Second If the above proposition is not agree
have a code of working rules which the employers
decline to accept, and the contractors also have
code obnoxious to the men. that both sides throw
aside their respective rules and empower their con-
ference committees to meet together and prepare a
new set of rules agreeable to each others mutual
''These two propositions having been rejected to-
day. now again submit them for your further con-
sderation. An answer to this can be directed to
BOX Ss4. Philadelphia"
The Men Favorably Impressed.
The willingness which Mr.. Mcclure dis
dycu W LHO III tlIHeT VI
the ways suggested by himself occasioned
much favorable comment among the men
last night, while the stand taken by the
other side was pretty severely criticised.
Their position was explained. however,
by their Representatives; Mr.; Ham
and sSn he %aS ssd sffn I'VE eannot aoGd
to waste time talking over the situation. A
great many of our contractors have all the
men they have work for and more are re-
turning work 1av We win the
fight without the aid of Mr.. Mcguire or any
of the Judges and it would be against our
own interests to go into an arbitration"
The Chairman of the Press Committee
stated: eve have this strike practically |
won. By going into conference or arbi-
tration we would lose what we have gained. |
Mr.. Mcclure is here. He promises the men |
money. He takes good care not to name |
any amount. They have been promised |
money before and they did not get it. The |
will take money and plenty OF it, to hold
Agents Swarts and Snyder were both seen
last night, but they declined to talk saying |
that their case was now in the hands of Mr.. |
Mcguire. They claimed their men were |
still firm and would remain so from this out. |
Meetings Held by the Masters.
The Master Builders Associates met yes
terday afternoon, but only routine business
was transacted.
The master painters met last night and
discussed their new rules that are to be |
presented to the men. Joseph McCutcheon,
of Verona, who was at the meeting, said the |
rules might not be presented to the men for
some days yet
+. A Holmes, foreman for A. & S. wilson, |
said yesterday that three additional men had
gone to work for them, making a force of IL
men now Oh duty. Wilson & Moore of the
East End, were reported to have five new
men. Benz Bros. succeeded yesterday in
starting up and expect to have ten men at
work to-day. Mr.. Holmes said that
at least loo men had gone back
to work since Monday morning. He
will be tried on Friday night in local Union
23O He said yesterday that the policy of
all the unions had been to fine all the men
who desert the ranks 500 and So a day for