Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-11
TAKING A NEW START.
Building Trades Strikers Prepared
for Another Weeks Fight.
4 BIG MASS MEETING TONIGHT.
Indications That the --latest Tin Plate
: Scheme will 60 Through.
SOME SCRAPS FROM LABOR CIRCLES

Everything was quiet around the head
quarters Of the Building Trades Council
/ and Builders Exchange all day yesterday.
There were no Developments of, any account
all day. A few of the strike leaders put in
part of the time making final arrangements
for the mass meeting tonight, which will
be the most important meeting since the
strike occurred. President Gompers. who
is still in the city. will be present 1t was
expected that P. J. Mcguire, the General
Secretary of the Brotherhood, would arrive
last night, but he did. not get
here. He will come in to-day.
however, and is expected to make the
principal address of the evening. There
has been considerable discussion regarding
the attitude of the general officers toward
the local leaders, and particularly in refer
ence to the present trouble, and the result Of
to-nikht's meeting will be awaited with
no little interest.
Depending on MIR. Maguire's Advice.
All the building trades will be repre-
sented at the meeting, and whether any ad-
ditional trades will demand eight hours will
Mcguire. Mr.. Gompers will also speak.
To-day has been set as the day upon
which the contractors will allow all men
desiring to work to return to their jobs.
According to the statement of some Of
the contractors, quite a number of men will
90 to work, and nearly all the apprentices
will 60 back. w. T. Powell, of the South
side, who is the Vice President of the Master
Builders Association, was seen last even
ing. He said:" think the indications are
that large force Of men will be at work by
tomorrow. A great many Of the contract
ors themselves will take up their tools, and
I know Of apprentices who will return to
work. They all would have been working
now had Il not been for the ill-advice given
to them by the leaders Of the strike, who
assumed that the apprentices are under
their Jurisdiction.
"I think the men are beginning to see the
error In this thing, but I suppose the reason
the mass meeting has been called Is to bol-
ster DIP the men and make them feel as
though they are winning, whether they are
or not The only way they can strengthen
their men Is TO give them money, and / am
told by old carpenters that Just as soon ns
the benefits stop they are going back TO
work. There is another thing worth remem-
berlng BY the men. If they do not return to
work soon, they had better look for other
jobs"
Damaging Delay In Building.
"Does that mean that men are to be
brought in from other cities?"
II did not say SO; but if the men only knew
the number Of prospective buildings that
will not be touched this year just on account
of this strike, and the amount of cutting
down that has been doLe on the buildings
that have gone up, they would certainly re-
turn to work rather than be responsible for
such q staenation in the building trade.
am sure have bid on at least IL houses
this season that will not be built until next
spring. Four of them will not be built at
all, and nearly all the other contractors are
in the same position"
The plumbers who are out on strike will
hold meeting at 10 o'clock this morning,
to hear the reports of the members as to the
success they have had in securing the with.
drswal of the master plumbers demands.
The meeting will be we'll attended, but it is
not expected the reports will be very en-
couraging, as none of the bosses have shown
any disposition to recede from their former
position.