Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-19
CENTRAL HABOR UNION
Report Made Of Conference With the Secre-
tary of tie Treasury.
Eight-HOur Lavvf in the Bureau Of
Engl aving and ,Printing-Pro-
posed Regulation.

The Central Labor Union, at its weekly
meeting last evening" President Milford
Srohn in. the chair, Endorsed the boycott
OF several firms against whom complaints
OF trfairness to trades unions had been
filed.
Credentials of the recently organized
Bakers Drivers Unicn No. 6s69, were re-
ce.ved and the delegates obligated.
The chairman of the committee on the
grievance filed against the Consumers
brewery reported that the directors of
that company had said it was impossible
Tor them. to name the exact date when
they would employ a union engineer fur
Their than that it would be between this
time and May L next. The report of the
committee was accepted as satisfactory to
the central body, and the Central Labor
Union pledged itself to see that The en-
sagement between the engineers union and
the directors Of the brewery company is
carried into effect -...lt-t- - e.
Delegate Silver of the committee appoint-
ed 10 call on Secretary Gage in reference
10 the alleged violation of the eight-hour
law al the bureau of engraving and print
ing reported having discharged the duty:
also that during The latter part of last
week an order was issued by the Secretary
or the Treasury directing that the employees
OF the bureau of engraving and printing
Should In future cease work at 1870 pm,
eiSnt-nour law. Mr.. Silver also reported
mat the employees in the bureau had been
tormaly requested to organize into a
trades union, and thus receive the supnort
of organized labor.
As to Municipal Work.
Deiegate Sudworth of the legislative COM
mlttee reported that he was in communion
tloh with prominent lawyer a former
representative in Congress- who is prepar-
ing bill which will provide that all NUM-
clpal work shall be done by the day and the
maximum rate of wages paid for the same,
He stated that the bill will be submitted to
TIE central Labor Union at it's meeting
next week.
Delegate Weber, chairman of the COM
mittee on brewers contract, stated that no
response had been received by them from
two OF the brewers to the request for con-
ference in reference to signing a contract
with Brewery Workers Union No. lis. Sec
rotary Crowley was directed to notify the
brewers that the committee would meet
them Saturday afternoon at o'clock at
Typographical Temple, and submit to them
a copy of the contract.
Delegate Sudworth stated that the Allied
Printing Trades Council was preparing a
circular letter which will be sent to the
business firms in the city, soliciting their
patronage for parties whose products bear
the union LABEL and he requested that the
unions allied with the Central Labor Union
furnish the Printing Trades Council with
the numbers in its several organizations.
Non-Union'r Brfcklnyers.
The complaint of the bricklayers against
an iron firm in this city for employing
non-union brieklayeps was referred to the
grievance committee for Investigation and
report
Under the tcalt of unions the,adeiegates
from the bricklayers. ;-steamftters. cigar
makers, plumbers and gas filters. engineers
and cHrpe nters, No. 1880 reported that they
had Endorsed the boycott which had been
placed on a suburban resort, and will place
fine OF 50 upon each member who patron
ICES the place.
The delegates from Bakers Drivers Union
reported that committee from the
knights Of Labor were threatening to boy
cott those employees who permitted their
drivers to joint union; it was also re-
ported that d. A. 6D, K ~, had at its
last meeting imposed boycott upon one
of the union bakers whose drivers had
Joined the organization. A committee of
five was appointed to call on the several
bakers in the interest of Bakers Drivers
Union, and counterfeit, if possible the eff
forts being made, as alleged by the h of
L. people, to -injure the members of that
union.