Evening star., 1896-11-26
SOME TROUBLE AHEAD
Clouds Looming Up. On Local Labor
tHofiDn.
Plasterers' Assembly and Plasterers'
ing on, . Brewery.

tTOm the present OUTLOOK tnefe ID, IL II
believed, more tronble in the near future
for the members aef organized labor here
then has been experienced In the District
OF Columbia for long time.
The cause of the threatened disturbance
Is the alleged refusal of the members Of
Plasterers' Assembly, No. 1914. knights Of
Labor. who are employed on the new Con-
sumers' Brewery, at Rosslyn. Va. to work
with the members of the Operative Plas-
terers Union, and in this stand the X. of
L. men have been indorsed by the other
mechanics employed on the same job who
threatened to quit work II the trades union
plasterers were given employment there.
AS was stated in The Star of Tuesday.
the Central Labor Union, at its meeting
Monday evening, received a report from a
committee appointed to make the request
that MIR. Foster, the superintendent Of con-
struction of the brewery, had promised the
committee that he would employ an equal
number of members of the Knights of
Labor and Trades Union organizations to
complete the job.
Before. however, the plan could be car
rled into effect the X. of l.. plasterers filed
q protest with the directors of the COM
pany against the employment of their
rivals on the improvement.
yesterday the directors were called to-
getner, and much surprise was expressed
by those present at the meeting when it
was FOUND that a paper laid before them
was signed by the bricklayers, carpenters
ana iron workers also employed on the
brewery, In which they agreed to quit work
Z =, any OF the members of the Operative
Plasterers' Union were employed by them,
Or IN fact any other plasterers except K
OF L. men were given work there
The outcome of this was that a resolu-
tlon was adopted by the directors that none
OF the members of the Operative Plaster
ers, Union should be given work on the
brewery. The explanation was, it is said,
made to the directors that the objection
OF the X. Of L. men to the others was that
1t was reported that the members of the
Union onered to work for less than the pre-
Valling rate of wages, though the directors
we're, 1t is understood, also informed that
the rumor was not true. and that a non
brewery. ~
The Operative Plasterers' Union has an
pointed committee to call on the directors
OF the brewery and peremptoriIy demand
that their members be given an equal share
OF the work in question.
The action OF the bricklayers and mem
pers OF the two organizations of carpenters
VINO are working on the brewery in agree
ihg To quit work If any trades union men
were given employment there is regarded
by some of the labor leaders as inconsist-
ent, as the Bricklayers Union, the two
carpenters organizations and the Opera
tive Plasterers Union are all affiliated
with both the Central Labor Union and
Building Trades Council.
On the other hand. Plasterers' Assembly,
whose members, 1t is said succeeded in
getting the other craftsmen at the brew
cry to unite with them in threatening to
strike If the demands of the former are
not complied with, withdrew from the
Building Trades Council several months
ago, and has ever since refused to give it
any support whatever.
''Of course" said one who is an authority
on labor matters, 1.-The subject will be
brought to the attention of the Central
Labor Union, and the Building Trades
Council at their next meeting, and it Is
likewise more than probable that the brick
layers will discuss the much-mixed situa-
tion at their meeting this evening"
Meanwhile an attempt will be made to
adjust the pending difficulties In q manner
satisfactory to all concerned.