Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-13
SOME MEN MAY WORK.
Strike Leaders Indifferent as to the
Action of Machine Hands.
LINES DRAWN ON MATERIAL MEN.
Sessions of the Amalgamated Association
Growing Tiresome.
MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIAL ITEMS

The strike of the building trades is grow
ing more interesting from the fact that the
leaders have expressed their willingness to
let all planning mill men who desire to do so
return to work. Agent Swartz said yester-
day the men might go to work if they
wished, and it would still have no effect on
the general result of the strike. His claim
is that if all the planning mills were run to
their full capacity the men employed in
them would be at work but short time
until there would be nothing for them to
do, as the mills could not get rid of their
product.
Local Union No. 23O met last night and,
as predicted in Yesterdays DISPATCH, dis
tributed small amount of benefits. It
was stated last night by one of the men,
bers that quite a number of the men
will go to work next Monday. They have
discovered that their old places where they
were formerly employed have been filled
by new men, and their purpose is to go to
work now while they can, for fear they may
be left out altogether.
Thinks the Strike Is Broken.
change, said yesterday if all the men re-
turned to work next week the effects of the
strike could not be overcome this season.
There was 81, 900, 900 worth of buildings con-
templated that would have been put up this
summer, but could not be gotten under roof
now before cold weather sets in. Mr.. Barnes
thinks the strike is about broken, and that
the only men who will not return to work
next week are the leaders and others who
are too proud to acknowledge defeat. The
Builders Exchange has drawn the lines
little tighter on the material men.
The Board of Directors has decided that
hereafter members of the Exchange shall
buy and sell material only on orders issued
by committee of the board. This commit
tee will have regular business hours at the
Exchange, where orders will be signed for
material. They say this course has been
made imperative for the protection of Ex-
change members.
Agent Snyder said last night this action
was due to the knowledge that Exchange
members had been selling to whoever
wanted material, and this was the only way
in which the Exchange could stop it. By
the system that has been adopted they can
be certain that no eight-hour contractors get
supplies.
Claims Widely at Variance.
Mr.. Snyder still clings to the claim that
there are not 100 union men working nine
hours. The Exchange members claim the
number runs into the hundreds. There is
no way of proving who is correct. A. F.
Bryce, leading member of 5O6, said yester-
day the leaders of the strike did not expect
the men who had large families to support and
who were not financially able to stay out,
to do so. They are expected to go to work
whenever they feel the necessity warrants
their doing so, and Mr.. Bryce thinks the
union will gain by it.
Each side. is keeping well posted on the
movements of the other. Very little tran
spires on either side that Is not quickly re-
ported to the headquarters of the opposi-
tion, and any radical move that might be
made would not be long in meeting with a
counter move from the other side. Mr.
Barnes said yesterday that he supposed the
reason the strikers objected so strenuously
to the advertising done in Canada was be-
cause it costs more to send back the men who
come than it does to send them to Philadel-
phia or other nearer cities.