The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-19
THE STONE-MASONS NOW
Have Decided to Demand an Eight
Hour Day-Ten More Carpenters
Have Signed the Building
Trades Council Agreement.

The stone masons union have now
demanded an eight-hour day. This
action was decided upon al q meeting
held on Monday AFTERNOON but the
facts were no. made known mtn l2te
last night. 1t is understood that none
of the other trades will demand an
eight-hour day, the rest appearing 20
be satisfied with conditions before the
strike
Ten more carpenters signed the
Building Trades council agreement
yesterday making a total of seventy
who have appended their signature
since Thursday morning last The two
most important concerns who signed
yesterday were Bert Davis and the
South Side Lumber company. Both
of these firms control lumber yards in
addition to being general contractors.
While a number of those who have
signed the agreement have had sufii
CiCnt lumber to do all the work they
required up to the present time, there
We're few who were Handicapped by
being unable to procure it. The Build
ing Trades council would not of course,
allow lumber to be bought from mem
bers of the Exchange, and as all of the
large" lumber yards are members of
the organization, the question was as
suming a serious aspect This difficulty
has now been adjusted and the con-
tractors are in a position to secure all
the lumber they may need.
\ committee from the plumbers
nion visited the various master plum
bers yesterday and endeavored to get
them to sign an agreement This
agreemnt embodied the eight-hour de-
mand with the same wage scale as for
merely and several clauses of the old
agreement.
Tackled at the end of it was a
clause stating that these rules were To
be subject t. the rules of the Build
ing Trades council. This last clause
'phased" the masrcc plumbers and
they refused to even consider the sub
ieCt.
Six plumbers from out of town We're
at work in the city yesterday and the
agent sent out by the master plumbers
on Monday night will probably arrive
in the city today with a number of
! others. The plumbers are determined
to get their work done.
y large sum of money has already
been received by the executive COM
mite Of the Buildings Trades council
in answer TO the appeals recently sent
out to the various national OrPaniza.
| ions. The money is arriving daily
| from the various local unions through
out the country and is being distributed
| among the different sympathzine
unions who are out.
In addition to the complaints out.
lined in yesterday mornings Tribune
| to be preferred TO the treasury official,
| by the committed who left for Wash
| ingtOn. ID. G., yesterday morning IN re,
| gard to the stone work on the now
| immigrant station. being done by
| Frank CarluCci, another complaint will
bc presented. This is that there ha.
| been a violation of the federal and stat,
! lays which provide that eight hour.
| shall constitute a days work on at
| government state and municipal build
| ings. Prior 10 the tic-up the stone cut
ters at Mr.. CarIucci's yard worked min,
! hours day cutting the stone for thi!
building and it is claimed that thi,
| fact will have great weight with tn,
/ treasury department.
| 1t was learned last night that tn,
| large lumber and Woodworking firm
| of Joseph AmsieY e Sor had signe,
the aGreomnt, The wuodwOrkers in TIL
establishment viii go back to wor!
this morning. This is the biggest firm
that has Vet signed the agreement.