Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-24
REPLACING STRIKERS.
Hundreds of Nine-Hour Workmen
Coming to Pittsbnrg.
LATEST FROM THE CONTRACTORS.
Labor Leaders in the Coke Region Are Now
Between Two Fires.
A DAYS GRIST FROM LABoR's MILL

was stated last night, on the authority of
the Builders, Press Committee, that 100
plumbers had come to the city yesterday
to take the, place of strikers
tomorrow, and that hundreds of carpenters,
stonemasons, bricklayers and electricians are
expected early in the week. Within the
next week enough men are expected to be
here from various points to keep things
moving until the men here withdraw their
demands for eight hours. Builders will not
say that they are directly responsible for the
other men coming here to replace the
strikers. A number of them seen last night
said they knew the men were coming, but
did not know at whose order.
Work on Theater to Be Resumed.
Work on the Alvin Joslyn theater will be
resumed tomorrow, but at nine hours. The
local contractor had been granted the priv
ilege of working nine hours for few days,
until the building could be put in a safe
condition. Yesterday the Builders Ex-
change furnished him with sufficient num-
Der of men to go ahead with the job at nine
hours, and the work will be pushed
to completion as rapidly as possible.
This is one point gained by the master
builders yesterday. They claim to have
gained another one yesterday by stopping
the work on the new King building on Lib
erty street. These two jobs are the princi-
pal ones that have been watched with any
degree of interest since the strike COM
menced- Contractor McMasters had granted
the demands of his men, but as he is not a
member of the Exchange it was extremely
difficult for him to get material. Yesterday
ba row nm NOT haipO nh1a RI r,rnoura hrialr
and if work continues on that job tomorrow
it will be under the nine-hour rule.
Vice President Powell, of the Master
Builders Association, was seen yesterday
afternoon and asked when conference will
be held.
"Whenever the men ask for it, was his
reply.
'NNhy, the men claim that as they asked
for the last conference, and you did not ac-
complish anything, it is your turn to ask
for a meeting, p" was suggested
Not Anxious for Conference.
at would be-" replied Mr.. Powell, 'fbut
we are not anxious for conference. If the
men want to confer, we will confer. But
what's the use in conference; there will
never be any concessions on either side?"
eff there is never any concessions, there
will never be settlement" remarked the
reporter:
f'Well, we will not concede. our position,
We will not give in to the eight hours and
there is no use talking over other rules
until the question of hours is settled"
During the conversation with Mr.. Powell,
the question of conspiracy came up and the
gentleman remarked that someone is liable
to get into trouble if the conspiracy agita-
tion is kept up much longer. '1f it is
conspiracy to refuse to sell material to con-
tractors who are working eight hours, it
certainly is conspiracy for. Mr.. Swartz to
prevent apprentices from Working if they
choose" said he. 81 told my boys that
they must either go to work or get another
job. In my presence they asked
the President of the union in which they
are registered, If they could work and he
told them they could. Then they went to
Mr. Swartz and he told them they could not.
Now, here is something (and he drew from
his pocket document) which we have dis
covered. 1t will be sent to all contractors. q.
They will then order their apprentices to go
to work, and we will be very careful to
know who prevents them.
The Law as Regards Apprentices.
The document Mr. Powell had was an act
of Assembly, dated April %, 1876, and reads
as follows:
Ii,
an individual capacity, or as o member of
any association, attempt by any. unlawful
means whatever to prevent any mechanic,
employe or person having charge OF any
as an apprentice any minor whose
parents or guardians are destrous
of apprenticing said minor, or where such
said minor is without parents or guardians
and desires to apprentice himself or herself,
shall be guilty of q misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof in the proper Court of
Quarter Sessions, shall be sentenced to pay
q fine of not exceeding 800 or imprisonment
not exceeding three months, or both, or
either at the discretion of the Court.
The regular meeting of the Building
Trades Council was held last night. A COM
munication was received from the Car
penters' Council, asking that all trades
refuse to work on jobs where nine-hour
carpenters are employed, and resolution
was passed unanimously in accordance with
the request. The plumbers sent a request
that the marble cutters refuse all cards ex-
cept the certificates issued since the COM
of the strike. Resolutions were
adopted indorsing the new Union Supply
Company.
A meeting was held in Saller's Hall last
night for the purpose of making further ar
for establishing the proposed CO.
operative concern for supplying building
were not given out, but itwas stated that
the new company will be ready in few
days to do business.
A Statement by Planning Mill Men.
President Evans, of the Planning Mill
Association, furnished the following state
ment yesterday:
All of the mills are running with more or
less men. Only three of the mills have
these three
where efforts were made to get men to go to
work, there are ~ union carpenters and 40
carpenters at work under the
new rules and nine hours. These are regu-
lar carpenters and not box makers, nor have
they anything to do with the box makers
departments. There is no doubt but that if
the other mills that are running with from
five to ten men each needed more men they
could get them. In one mill the old hands
are all back working but two, and they also
for work but were not needed.
Mills in East Saginaw, Bay City, Muskee-
gon, Oshkosh, Chicago, Columbus, Toledo,
Erie, Buffalo, Reading and Williamsport are
running ten hours, and Sharon, Butler and
Cleveland are running nine hours. The
product of these cities come into this city
and regulates our prices, while the mills of
this city are running nine hours and paying
more per hour, and they now demand that
We run only eight hours. Again, in the cities
the mills employ as many boysas
they wish and they are allowed to operate
machines at from 75c to 81 per day that Pitts
burg mills are compelled to pay skilled me-
chanics to run at 81 75 per day.
Declare They VIII Never Yield.
We kindly refer the leaders in the strike to
an article by H. II. Champion on 1.-THE Crush
ing Defeats of Trades Unionism in Aus
tralia,' and answer to the same by John d.
labor delegate from Australia
and member of Strike Committee, in the
Ninetec,t Century Ndgdzine for February and
March, 1891, where it is conclusively shown
that the most gigantic federation of labor
will break like an egg against an iren-clad
when faced by the resofute opposition of