The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-25
THEY COULD NOT AGREE
No Settlement Yet of the Strike
of the Plumbers.
CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE
One of the Journeymen Plumbers, Ed
ward Bisbee, Blacklisted by the Mas
ter Plumbers-Only Two Men at
Work on the School House.

The plumbers strike remains in statu
men having failed to come to an agree
ment yesterday. The master plumbers
learned officially yesterday for the first
time the occasion for the strike. They
had held three or four meetings to af-
ford the journeymen an opportunity to
present their grievance. but IL was not
done, and the master plumbers accord
ingly decided TO send a committee to
the journeymen to invite them 20 COM
municate to the master plumbers.
through the proper channel. The COM
mittee was composed of Master Plumb
ers Kruger, Dutten and Mclaughlin,
who visited the rooms where the jour
neymen were holding a meeting in the
Mantle & Bielenberg block during the
forenoon, and notified the ~journeymen
the master plumbers would be pleased
to receive a statement of their griev-
ance.
Later in the day the stewards of the
various shops informed their bosses
that the journeymen had gone on a
strike for the reason that they had
learned one of their number. Edward
Bisbee. had been blacklisted by the
master plumbers. These were the first
steps toward getting together and a
conference was arranged, which was
had last evening. but it came to moth
ing. as The two sides could not agree,
and when the meeting was over, the
situation was the same as it had been
since the men went out.
Word was received here yesterday
that the strike had extended to Ana
conda and that the journeymen plumb
ers there, who belong to the same union
as those of Butte. had gone out in SYM
pathy with the Butte strikers.
The boss plumbers here all turned
out and went to work yesterday to
attend to such needed repairs among
their customers as could not be put
off.
The master plumbers of Butte and
Anaconda will hold a meeting prob
ably in Butte to-day, to discuss the
trouble n agree on a course of ac-
ton.
The trouble between the bricklayers
and Contractor Fred Whiteside does
not seem to make much progress to-
ward a settlement, although there are
prospects hat it will not later thar to-
morrow night, and in the meantime
only two men are at work on the new
school house. The Trades and Labor
assembly LOOK the HldlltT up last tNtl-
ing at the regular meeting, but after a
general discussion, decided to take no
steps until after Friday evening. when
the Bricklay ers' union folds a meeting
to take action as to whether the Butte
union shall hdr from the Inter-
national union, or comply with the
mandate of that body and permit the
members of the Butte union to go to
work for Contractor Whiteside. Mr..
Whiteside has ~nnounce his intention
of awaiting the action of the union Fri
day evening, and then go ahead wheth-
er the action is favorable or not, as
he received a telegram yesterday from
the secretary of the International union
authorizing him to bring in outside
masons and put them to work If the
local masons decline TO go to work.
1t is said that if the local union
votes to withdraw from the Internal
tional, there are quite a number who
will decline to withdraw and who will
petition the International union for
permission to retain their charter and
reorganize the union.