The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-21
STRIKERS REACHING OUT.
UNION PLUMBERS CLAIM NEARLY
ALL COMBINATION MEN.

Retail Clerks Association Committee
Met With Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, and Extended Its sympathy ana
Aid-Carpenters Union Consider
Proposition of Building Exchange
Committee for New Scale OF Wages
without Change in Hours.
The plumbers strike continued yester-
day, with but little change in the condi-
tons as far as the journeymen We're con-
cerned. In the morning the union held
a meeting at Labor Hall and decided to
appoint a committee, of which President
T. w Han and Secretary Porcher were
members, to confer with the combination
plumbers and see how many of them were
willing to sign the scale of wages and
hours they had demanded in their last
letter of all the master plumbers.
The committee occurred the names Of
twelve of the combina ton men, which they
say is practically all who can really be
classed as such.
The idea in securing the signatures of
these men was moi that the journeymen
expect to go to work for them, but mere
ly to show that they have the sympathy
and good viii of all of The master plumb
ers except those who are members of the
Builders Exchange,
One of the combination men thought he
was to get two union workmen this morn
ing. but the journeymen say that he is
mistaken in the object for which the pa
per was circulated and that the strike of
the union is still on as hard and fast as
ever.
1t was also stated casually a Labor
Hall last night that two Of the members
of the Builders Exchange had violated
the resolution of the exchange, which de-
manded that they close work entirely dur
ing the four days pending the reply of
the committee Of the Building Trades
Council concerning the acceptance or re-
lection of the scale of wages and hours
that was Offered all union mechanics.
One of these builders it is said was
working his men through a misunder-
standing of the resolution of the eX
change, being under the impression that
pending the settlement Of the difficulties
with the unions he had the right to use
non-union labor.
At Labor Hall the two carpenters
unions held a meeting for the purpose OF
discussing the proposition of the Building
Exchange Committee for scale of wages
from SIS 90 50 per day for skilled me-
chanics, the hours to remain the same as
those that now obtain, ten hours to CON
stitute a days work. except on Satur-
day. when the working day will be only
nine. Their decision was not made public,
but as the meeting was for the purpose
of instructing their delegates to the
Building Trades Council, which meets this
morning al 10 o'clock, their views will
probably be made known then.
There win also be meeting of all of the
unions represented in the building trades
at the nall tonight at O'Clock. A meet
ing of the Trades and Labor Assembly
was also held last night to receive Com
mdtee of Seven from the Retail Clerks
Association, who came TO tender them the
sympat thy of the association, and also to
offer them financial assistance in case
the assembly should need it. President
Corey received the committee and ac-
cepted their offer on behalf of the build
ing trades unions.
The union lathers who have made de-
mand for an Increase of % cents per thou
sand on the prices now paid them, 81 %,
and who were understood to have receiV-
ed only 81 per thousand last year. say that
they received on all of last years work
1.25 per thousand, and that the increase
they now ask is not so large as the public
might be led 10 infer from the statement
that they got only 81 per thousand during
last year.