The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-31
lTB[Rs FORM 4 UNION.
90 ~-CEHT SLAVES WILL SOON
~ THINGS OF THE FAST.
- IA Hour Shops Agree 60 Raise
= Standard Rates Ab0ut January
IA Stfesg Union Ofganisea-
r. More Free shines 10 he Given.

- harbers OF Seattle have organized a
.,saeesfve association, and nearly every
- II tie city has signed an agreement
= ME prices shortly after January l.
- there viii be no more lucent shaves
~ E-cent haircnts. The lowsr-priced
80 have decided that they had been
Eu.pstced shops long enough. and that
= fiase days OF Klondike prosperity they
= justified In raising to the standard
49,. IS cents for shaving and q cents
- haif-cutting. The shops that have Al
sss1 ha3d to the standard rate have agreed
= thrUu OF the free-shins inducement.
- everyone In connection with the bust
- y happy.
pexmauen. organization OF thu Seattle
nefhesI Union was effected at an en-
ssndasttc meeting held last night at the
Gln6Ard barber shop. at lilo Occidental
1879. "a the presence OF about sixty
tefhers many OF whom own shops. The
4olle0ing officers were elected: Presi-
1nf. e. z Miller: vice president, Fred
Wlntjer; secretary. j. II. Hamer; treas
MT. Charles Stevens. and sergeant-at-
afna. Joseph Cummings. Considerable
NscueGdon was had on the matter Of rails
- The price to the standard rate. and all
q u mseting seemed In favor OF putting
IS pstcss a. soon az all who were willing
s e . had been given opportunity to join
n union. After the business session re-
freahnents were served. and the BARRIERS
wens home with feeling that they woiio
IN b having reasonable income after
mr. had paid their rents from the work
th<y did with the shears and razor.
u hoybers' union has been talked OF by
II Dembers OF the trade for some time,
- Il vas not until two weeks ago that
en- deaniss steps toward organisation
0ere taken. A committee of prominent
barheI II that time visited all the shops
& ths city and asked them to sign an
aeypment to raise prices. 1t was signed
q 81 lie shops except four. Then q cali
vss sent out for the formation OF . bar
tsrS union. The preliminary meeting
rs hsld In the Standard shop last Mon
n evening. and twenty-seven names
veee placed on the roll. A committee WAS
eppointed 10 draft a constitution for the
vaion. TO report at the meeting held last
ntrhi The report OF this committee was
n6cpsed, and the Seattle BARRIERS Union,
Ma l, dnAlly organized. The membership
~ doubled 1t last nights meeting. Sew
srsl committees were appointed to visit
ths shops that have not yet agreed TO raise
thes prices, and an effort will be made
70 persuade all TO raise At q time yet to
= determined on. II the shops that have
~ signed refuse to come I'm, forty shops
thst favor the raise will raise their prices
1u1t the same.
The ueion, II ID believed, will have fully
sxhty members by the next meeting. I'M
je1s something comes up that Is unfore-
stsn by the leaders In the movement. The
BARRIERS believe in making the public pay
. fs;: price for the services given.
They cay that rents have increased. and
that Il II no longer possible TO make living
wages In the low-p-iced shops. The shops
that cater wholly to the better Glars OF
trade are talking OF fixing their prices at
3 cents Tor shaving and IS cents for hair
cutting. but this Is outside Of the unions
scheme, the object OF which IL to have no
shop In the city doing business at less
tAan the standard rate. Another meeting
VII be held Monday evening.