The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-01
ARE FIRM
ST PAUL JOURNEYMEN HELD AN
IMPORTANT MEETING AT AS
SEMRLY HALL
MONDAY MEETING IN SIGHT
Neither the PIRsterers Nor Carpen-
ters of Minneapolis Are Likely
to Go to- Work Tomorrow
Morning.

AT specially called meeting of the st.
Paul Journeymen Plasterers' union, held
at Assembly hall last night, all members
of the organization We're notified to at
tend meeting at Assembly hall tomor-
row morning at 8 o'clck.
There is only one meaning to the ac-
ton taken by the plasterers. While a
strike Is not called in fact, the action OF
the union amounts to little else, for the
purpose of the Monday morning meeting
is consideration of the scale of pay that
has been demanded by the men and re-
fused by the bosses.
That both employers and the men con-
template a struggle is indicated further
by the fact that the boss plasterers will
meet in the Reardon block, at Seventh
and Minnesota streets, Monday after
noon, and form a union or association in
order that the employers of plaStererS in
st. Paul may act in concert in dealing
with their employees on matters involv-
ing hours of work, scale of pay and con-
ference or arbitration
A month ago, through the officials of
their union, the union plasterers notified
their employees that the scale of So per
day was insufficient, and that after May
l, 1900 all union plastererS would demand
$3.50 per day under the same general
contract as they have been working.
During the month of March a committee
from the Fasteners union visited the
bosses individually and learned that they
were almost one in absolute opposition
to the new scale of pay demanded.
Whether or not the workmen and en-
ployes will have conference before
strike is officially inaugurated cannot be
known until after the bosses form their
organization tomorrow afternoon. 1t is
believed by some Of the union plasterers
hot h. 60. ofTaor fhnir
ganization for the purpose of giving con-
certed resistance to the demand for ad-
vanced pay, while others are of the
opinion that the bosses are bent only
upon securing concerted action in MAX
ing the best settlement possible with the
men.
The labor situation in ST. Paul, as it
appears from the developments con-
nected with the demands of the plaster
ers is a stormy one. There is not an
organized craft in st. Paul, but what
has formulated demands for increase of
pay dating from May l and the work
ing people were never as thoroughly or
ganiZed as they are at the present time.
The Plasterers union is looked upon
as the keystone in the arch of the local
federated unions represented by the
Building Trades council. 1t has
membership of over 400 and there are
fewer than per cent of all plasterers
in the city outside the union. The scale
of $3.50 per day, demanded by the plas-
terers, is not in excess of that paid
them in most large cities of the coun-
try.
That employers of union workmen
contemplate the necessity of concerted
action in dealing with the many demands
for increased pay that will be made be-
tween this time and the LIST of May is
indicated further by the action Of the
employers of all Workmen whose trade
unions are represented in the Building
Trades council. Announcement was
made last night that on Tuesday next
a meeting of all bosses who employ
union men who are so represented will
be held. An association organized
through which concerted action will be
taken, whether it be lockout, strike, sub
mission to demands for increased pay or
arbitration of disputed points in effect
ing settlements.
There will be lockout of the Mime
apolis plasterers Monday. 1t may last
q day. and it may last for a long time.
The length depends entirely upon the
decision the committee composed of the
Master Plasterers' association and the
union come to. The master plasterers
have decided that they will not hire
any men Monday, and not until the
trouble is settled. The union asked for
new schedule of work, which Is small
err than that OF last year.
The Minneapolis carpenters may not go
to work on Monday, as the Master Build
ers' association has decided to pay the
1899 scale of rs cents for nine hours I'M
til the union meets next Friday night.
The scale of the painters and decorators
has been agreed to by the Masters Paint
ers' association. Thirty cents an hour
for all work.