The times., 1899-11-18

According to the plans of the contractors,
none OF the men who went out with the
striking street cleaners yesterday will be
allowed to resume work on the streets
again. The senior member OF the firm OF
Daggett & Dugan, who have the contract
for cleaning the streets, told Times re-
porter last night that be had secured
enough men TO resume work this morning
and the discontents who struck viii not be
allowed TO handle the shovel and broom any
longer
The hand sweepers have been dissatis-
fed with their positions for a long time
past and have it is said looked lOngingly
toward the time when the District viii
again do its own street cleaning.
The District employees received more pay
than the contractors help, and they had
number of allowances that the men en-
ployed by the private firm do not get There
has been considerable agitation for munich
pal ownership of the street sweeping ap-
paratus and the Commissioners are said to
favor the scheme 1t is well known that
the present superintendent of street clean
ing is very much dissatisfied with the man
ner in which the contract sweeping is done,
and it Is equally well known that it costs
considerably less for the District 10 do its
own work and the workmen get more pay
and easier positions.
Mr.. Daggett stated that the men seemed
| to be satisfied with their pay when they
received it Thursday evening, and neither
he nor his assistants had heard a word OF
/ discontent All of the trouble must have
| arisen during the night Mr.. Dugan stated,
! and he was of the opinion that outside in
| fuences had been brought TO bear on the
men.
! The fact remains that all but 80 of the
| l65 men employed by the contractors struck
! yesterday morning and refused TO go TO
/ work at the proper time. The grievance OF
! the men, it is said, is that the contractors
/ held out days pay on them and that the
deduction was made without just cause
| They stated that they were paid on the
/ l6rh OF the month but their wages only
amounted to what was due them on the
| l4th. The contractors side of the story Is
! that they are in the habit of paying the
men on the 10Th of the month, but that
through an error at the District Building
! tbev did not receive the full amount of the
contract pay for cleaning the streets until
| late Wednesday night and then 1t was too
| late to pay OFF
/ The money was paid Thursday accord
ing to the payrolls which were made oui
| Tuesday These rolls were for the first
| half of the month up to and including the
14th 1t has been the custom of the con
tractors to pay in this manner for long
! time past, and MT. DdS6tLJ stdltd NtottL O.
day that they did not expect TO change
| their methods.
The deductions which were to have been
made. Mr.. Daggett claims. were not made,
ana The men have no reason to complain.
He said that on several OF the daily re-
! ports he had noted certain sections OF
! the city which had not been swept be-
cause they had not been sprinkied. He
issued an order as soon as he saw these
! omissions to the effect that if in the
future there were any streets which We're
not properly swept and sprinkled, the
amount of money lost by the contractors
Tor this failure would be deducted from
the pay of the men overlooking the work.
The reports subsequent to the publica-
lion OF this order show that the streets
we're all properly swept and sprinkled and
on this account the contractors decided not
to take anything from the mems pay this
month They were warned, however, that
| should delinquencies be discovered in the
future the money would be deducted
The District street cleaning department
was informed OF the strike soon after il
| was declared, but no one knew anything
of the causes which lead to it. Superin-
tendent Stutler is i'll at his home. and the
other officials at the department would not
have anything to say about the matter