The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-14
FAITHFUL TO union RULE.
Bricklayers Will Not Work More
Than Eight Hours Day.
Action Taken ut Largely Attended
Meeting Of the Members of Their
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of the Trou-
BILE mt tire Capitol Buildinr and
the Government Printing Office.

At a meeting Of the members of the
local Bricklayers' Union. held last light
at Typographical Temple. it was deter
mined by a very decisive vote that the
laws of the organization will be lived up
to at all hazards and under all circum-
stances. AS the result OF this action the
members of the union at work at the new
Government Printing Office will net work
after p. m. any day, and those engaged
at the Capitol will refuse to work under
the superrisionscf Samuel Casisins or any
one who demands more than eight hours
a day
At the Capitol large force of brick
layers are engaged in transforming the
old Library into committee rooms, and
on account of the short time between now
and the meeting of Congress the force is
being worked in two shifts, one rom Z
a. m to p. m. with an intermission of
an hour at noon, and the ether from 4
p. N. until / a M, also with an inter
mission of an hour Both shifts, it IS
reported. are superintended by Samuel
Gaskins. a member of the BricEiayers'
kins to work sixteen hours daily. The
laws of the union prescribe that no men,
Der shall work longer than eight hours
a day and tia; he must cease to work
at y. m.
Tn. members of the union objected to
Mr.. Gaskins working longer than the laws
of the union permitted and the matter
t1.. ,,,s,, 81 r,a
ago. It was not. however, until last
Thursday that any definite action was
taken in the matter. and then commit
tee from The union informed Elliott Wood,
the Assistant Architect of the Capitol. and
Burgess & Richardson. said to be the
contractors for the brick work at the
Capitol, that the members of the union
would not be permitted to violate the
laws of their orraniZa tiGn and work I'M
der a foreman who labored more than
eight hours day. The matter was not
satisfactorily settled and the members of
the EricklayeTs' Union employed on the
night shift refused 10 go to work on Fri
day night ard are still out. 1t is UNDER
stood that the action Of the union last
night permits NJ. Gas1ins to elect wheth-
er he shall superintend the day or night
shift al the Capitol, but in the event that
eight hours tie members Of the union viii
refuse 70 work with him.
TIE trouble ~ the Government Printing
Office is said To be the result of an order
issued by Lieatenant Seweil. the engineer
in charge. to the effect that all members
CT the Brieklayers' Union would be re-
quired to WORK. until 4:3e 2. IN According
TO TIE Laws OF the organization il is said.
all members are required TO cease work at
y. m. and they refused 20 obey the or
Ger Of the engineer in charge. II was also
stated however. that the members Of lie
union informed Lieutenant Sews,l that they
We're willing to he docked fer half hours
work, but that they would be compelled to
stop at 4 p. NJ. This was not satisfactory
10 the engineer, i: is reported, who stated
thai the bricklayerS would be compelled To
go 20 work d: the game time iii other en-
ployes dc and stop al the same hour.
The members OF the union who were at
work at the Printing Office were upheld in
the stand they took by the action of the
union last night. and under no considera-
ton. il Was said. viii any Members Of the
local organization work after p. m. The
meeting was ono Of the most largely at
tended held in many years, and was pre-
sided over by William II. Maghan, the
President Of the union.