The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-04
THEY DID NOT SHOW UP
At Noon the Striking Plasterers
Did Not Appear for Work.
THE BUILDING WILL GO ON
New Men Called For-Union Men VIII
Do the Work II That Plan
Doesn't Stop the Finishing
OF the Building.

At moon yesterday the plasterers who
had been engaged on the building at the
corner of Main and Granite streets and
who struck last Saturday morning did
not present themselves for work. As
has been told. these men struck because
six plasterers who had been brought
from st. Paul were added to the force.
They were union plasterers and were to
be paid the Butte union scale. The
statement made by some OF the local
plasterers was that. in some cases, the
cards presented by the st. Pau men
lacked h seal. By others the state
ment os hat there were plasterers
enough in Butte and that the building
would not be finished II the new men
were kept on.
The action promptly taken by the
ownership of the property was that the
building would be completed without
greater delay than would be required to
get men to do 1t. In addition, notice
was given, last Saturday, that IL the
men who struck failed to report on
Monday. at Il o'clock. none of them
would be permitted hereafter to work
on the building or for the Anaconda
company. The plasterers failing to APP
pear yesterday at the hour named, ar
engagements were made for securing
men. Mr.. Donohoe Immediately an
ounces that the work would be COM
pleted and men obtained. Advertise
ments were published. placards placed
up in Butte and kilograms were sent to
outside points calling for so plasterers
at 81 a day n 40 hod carriers at $3.50
a day.
1t was announced that under no cir
cumstances would the strikers be put at
work again, that union men would be
employed by preference, IL that plan
worked In a satisfactory way, but that
If the offices of the local union were
used to deter the new men thus hired
from going to work and thus delaying
the building, then the employment of
men would proceed without any refer
ence to union or n~on-union lines. The
whole work of completing the plastering
was taken out of the contractors hands,
yesterday. TO be handled directly under
Mr.. Donohoe's direction. 1t was also
announced yesterday to those who in
quired that II Butte mechanics
wished to work on the building,
under the call for men, that, of course
was satisfactory. barring those who
struck. All such men, II was said de-
hnitely last night, would be received
and given work. 1t was added that, on
the testimony of many local plasterers
and men in other trades. they did not
approve the strike of last Saturday
and that applicants for work would not
be lacking.
Last night the Plasterers' union held a
meeting, at the conclusion of which a
prominent m said that no plas-
terers in Butte will ever work again un-
der Boss Smith, n some of the plas-
terers claim hat he was the cause of
their troubles. The dealings of the
plasterers with Boss Smith have moth
ing whatever to do with the recent
strike or with the continuation of work,
as far as the property involved is ron
cerned. When Mr.. Donohoe took mat
tiers in his own hands, yesterday, d.
rectly after the loon hour, he arranged
with Superintendent Leck with regard
to the future prosecution of the work
and Smiths relation to IL had not been
a matter of discussion between the rep
resentatives of the property and the
Whatever dealings the Plas-
terers' union may have with Smith is
an entirely outside matter, and he was
not IN issue In the troubles of the past
three days.
At the conclusion of last nights meet
ing of the plasterers, IL was reported
they nae settled their matters. |
Is supposed to mean that they
do not propose to attempt to interfere
with men who will be put on the work
In the place Of the men who are barred. |
SO that IL that plan is carried out, IL
will likely be the result that union men
mill do the xunrE |