The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-28
MEN ORDERED OUT.
Master Plumbers AS
ISOLATION Shows
Its Hand.
BLOW AIMED AT EDW. ]. DAILY.
He Incurs Displeasure fol-
Buying Outside the
Combine.
BLOW AIMED AT EDW. ]. DAILY.

There is a clash of arms on between
the national organization of the Master
Plumbers Association and several of
the local plumbers and dealers in the
handling Of plumbers supplies. Five
journeymen plumbers and two helpers
have been ordered out of the shop of
Edward J. DAILY, the Pearl street plumb
er. The reasons advanced by the men
when they left their work was that
DAILY bought supplies from the firm of
Callahan Supply Company.
The local union, it is said, is acting
under direction of the Master Plumbers
Association, which is vainly endeavor-
ing to force the issue of the New Or
leans convention last fall, when the
southern association of the Master
Plumbers adopted resolutions in regard
TO the selling of supplies to but a Ger
tain few dealers in one city
A peculiar circumstance is that the
man whom the union, at the instigation
of the master plumbers, declared war
upon Edward ]. Daily, is at the pres
ent tie treasurer of the Master
Plumb Association, and as far as
he knows, still occupies that position.
The other peculiar situation that pre-
sents itself is that the treasurer of the
association is a shareholder in the os-
TRACKED supply company.
The first lntimation of any trouble
that Mr.. DAILY received was yesterday,
when his entire force of help, including
five journeymen plumbers and two
helpers, presented themselves at the
Office and the spokesman of the party,
William Hemmings stated that unless
the proprietor of the shop would de-
sist in purchasing his supplies from the
Callahan Supply Company, in which
Mr., Early is a stakeholder, the men
would be obliged to quit work. The
proprietor very naturally refused to do
as the union desired, for him to quit
buying from himself and the men
picked up their kits and left the prem
Uses.
Mr.. DAILY, when seen by The Spy
man, said that he had nothing to say
on the subject He admitted that a
strike was on in his shop, and said the
only reason that he could advance was
that he persisted in buying stock of
himself He did not have any idea
how long it would last, and said that
he was fully aware of the fact that the
fight was not on between himself and
the union, but the Master Plumbers
association and the journeymen unions
on one hand and himself and the CAL
Mr.. Callahan, of the Callahan Supply
company, was seen by The Spy re-
porter and said that the first he knew
that the association had begun active
warfare was when he reached this city
and learned that the local journeymen
plumbers had been called out of the
shop of Mr. Daily. He said that the<as-
ISOLATION is endeavoring to make the
dealers in supplies come to it's idea of
q feIyxr n aql in wv
city. He said that his firm would per-
sist in selling to everybody who had
the right to handle plumbers supplies
and would continue to do so in the
future. His business has increased
greatly of late years, despite the boy
colt that has been placed on his goods
by the association, and he VIII soon re-
move from his present quarters to the
old quarters of the George f. HeWett
company at the corner of Foster and
Waldo streets, where he will have full
ly 1900 feet of floor space
The fight will take in many of the
local firms, who persist in purchasing
supplies of the Callahan company, and
it is intimated that there are quite a
number of them in this city. These
firms will undoubtedly either withdraw
or be ousted from the Master Plumb
ers association.
The firms who are at present op-
posed to the master plumbers and their
allies, the Journeymen Plumbers
unions, are Ashley & Koran, Edward ]
DAILY, Patrick McGuinness and many
lesser lights in the plumbing business.
The strength Of the combine will be
tested in the fight, and many of the
local plumbers are looking to the dis
ruption of the combine. Many of the
plumbers in the combine are heartily
out of sympathy with the movement.
and stand ready to quit it at the first
shot out of the box.
The Journeymen Plumbers union
met last evening and discussed the
fight, but would give nothing for pub
LEGATION. The meeting on Thursday
evening also discussed the status of the
case, especially in regard to Edward ].
Daley's shop.