The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-02
PLUMBERS STRIKE OFF
All Shops Will Be Opened This
Morning.
A COMPROMISE EFFECTED
Master Plumbers May Hire or Discharge
Men-Trades Council Acted az Medi
ator-The Bricklayers' Strike
Still Unsettled.

The strike of the journeymen plumb
ers has been declared OFF and all the
shops will be opened again this morn
ing. both i'm Butte and Anaconda. The
basis Of the settlement was a compro-
mise between the master plumbers and
journeymen, both sides concedlng some
thing. and an agreement was reached,
which, it is thought, will bring bou a
better feeling between employer and
employe than has existed heretofore.
The settlement Of the difficulty. the
bringing Of the strike t. go satisfactory
a conclusion vas largely due TO the in
iiuence of the Building Trades council,
which took the matter up and used its
offices To bring about an amiCable ad-
justment of the trouble.
The strike was ordered to procure the
reinstatement of Edward Bisbee. "A
member Of the Journeyman Plumbers
union, in a position from which he had
been discharged, as the journeymen
thought, without sufficient reason, and
to abolish a blacklist which the journey
men believed existed against certain of
their members. Several conferences
were held to endeavor to reach a settle
m6nt, but thy came to nothing, as the
master plumbers ueDldlutu lldl ttibdlH
rules which had been laid down by the
journeymen be abolished.
The demands of the master plumbers
were that they be permitted to employ
or discharge whomsoeVer they pleased
and that master plumbers be permitted
to use tools. In the first conferences
between the contending parties the
master plumbers disavowed that any
blacklist existed, but the reinstatement
- - - III aNNnn nd
mentioned were embodied i'm he mas
ter plumbers proposition for a settle
ment. The j~ourneymen held that these
principles were not involved in the
strike and refused to consider them.
This ended negotiations until a few days
ago. when Master Plumber Kruger
yielded the point with reference to Bis
bee and reinstated him. One other Butte
and two Anaconda firms yielded the
other points in contention and the men
went back to work in these shops. The
other master plumbers held out for their
demands and the strike remained on
with the exception of the four shops as
tight as ever
AT Wednesday evenings meeting of
the Building Trades Council a commit
tee Of the master plumbers was sent
to request the council to make an in
v~estigation. The request was granted
and a meeting Of a committee from
each Of the Master Plumbers assoCia-
ton. J~ourneymen Plumbers union and
building Trades Council was called for
last evening. The trades council COM
mittee listened to both sides Of the
case as presented by the other COM
mittees, and suggested a, compromise.
which was TO the effect hat the mas
ter plumbers he entitled to the right to
hire or discharge a plumber as they
Ga ~ fit and that ono Master nInmhpT
I'm each shop be permitted to replace
fixtures and do service work and job
hing. The PROPOSAL was accepted by
the master plumbers committee. and
Was taken before a meeting of the jour
neymen. who ratified il. and the strike
was declared off. All the shops viii
accordingly open this morning, and IL
is understood all .he old men will go
back to work without prejudice.
The controversy between the Brick
layers union and Contractor White
side does not appear TO progress very
rapidly toward a settlement as salts
factory as that of the plumbers strike.
Contractor Whiteside, backed by the
International Bricklayers' union, has
o~ndeay0rcd to go ahead with the school
building. over which the Co]ntroversy
exists. but the bricklayers apparently
do lot intend to yield without a strug-
gle, ana nave succeeded IN making
Contractor WhiteSide more trouble.
StOncmaSonS We're secured outside of
town by Contractor Whitcside. and
yesterday morning commenced work
IN the foundation Of the building. The
men had not been at work long. how
ever. when the walking delegates of the
local union appeared n talked them
out Of remaining on the job. and they
laid down their tools and quit. White
side is uncertain as to what he will do
now. but is determined To go on with