The San Francisco call., 1896-03-22
& T. McIvor was the next speaker.
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r. T. McIvor was the next speaker. He
read a statement from one of the master
painters, published in local newspaper,
wherein it appeared that the master
painter gained the lions share OF the
profits. McIvor, continuing, said that the
master painters marched under the black
banner of piracy with a black president at
their head, whereas the working painters
appeared with a rosy president AMI
standard, whereat Mr.. Rose bowed his
acknowledgements. Mr.. McIvor continued !:
The tactics of our. opposers have lbeen SO
mean and dastardly. The fact is that this Or
ganizatjon intends to demand more than q
minim um wage of SO. The master painters are
not workmen. Not one among twelve OF them
is practical mechanic. All they know how to
do is to drive men. Nay it would be nearer true
to say that not one in fifty knows aught OF
anything save bulldozing. We shall demand
wellrecognized apprentice system. The pres
ent regime is disgraceful.
If we lose this strike our condition Will not
be greatly impaired. The worst that can come
to us is that we shall return to the clrcum-
stances from which we are epdeayorlng to
escape. But for one am sure that we snail
win the day. We are making manly, cour-
ageous, stubborn fight with little money in
our treasury and with nothing but morality
and justice on our side. Our contention IS one
which involves great principles of right.
Hence we call upon the public: we invoke
the aid of organized labor in our support.
Hitherto we have received naught but scoffs
and ins u1ts from our drivers and tyrants. We
must see how they will greet the protests OF
1900 united journeymen painters. Will tney
tell all these men to ego to the devil" as they
have until now answered every plea offered by
their employees?
Let us have order, discipline and solidarity.
We have no intention of returning to work
under former conditions. We will stick to the
strike if need be, till we starve. Let us only
keep faith with each other, and stay by each
other, and, in spite OF all opposition, we VIII
win.
President Mccartney of the Carpenters
and Joiners' Union spoke as follows:
congratulate the painters upon the stand
they have taken in this struggle. have affill-
ated with painters in many states apd l can
say / have never met finer body OF men than
/ meet here. Your organization is splendid
and your unity OF action will carry you to sue
cess.
What is the trouble? The card. The. Master
Painters Association says that tn ey are kick
ing against the card, but say they are KICK
ing against your organization What lies they
tell about the card master painter SAID ne
proposed to run his own usiness, and lnti-
mated that the union would take from him
what was his own. They are fearful OF their
own" They are piratical crew sailing under
black flag, and their leader is Black. That is
their color all through. They call everything
"their own" tApplause.l
s'They, these master painters, pretend to be
the intelligent class. tell you there Is more
brains in the painters organization in one day
than you viii find in the Master Painters
Association in lifetime. l know some OF
these so-called master painters who left jour
neymen work because they would have starved
at it.. Part of their labor is TO join with the
wholesalers and keep the painters from pur-
chasing in the market if they would compete
with the bosses for work.
These are the intelligent, fair and upright
people they call the master painters. Some
OF them are poll liticians-God help these politi-
clans when they come before the people when
the ballot is welded. 1t will be worse to them
than the brush is now.
The painters have virtually won the fight.
have been told that the master painters are
crawling around trying to get the master
builders to join them.
The property-owners are not blaming the
strikers, they are blaming the master painters.
You are not striking, but simply holding to-
gether for a grand principle. Hold together.
Be peaeeable and let nothing be done that will
not be to your credit and you will win this
gloomy fight.
P. Ross Martin was the next to address
the meeting. He said:
We are living in sham civilization. The