The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-10
STRIKE IS
Sc 7 7.l.EO
Plumbers to Re-
sumo Work on
New Scale.
DIFFERENCES HAVE
BEEN ARBITRATED
Journeymen viii Get $3.50 Per
Day-Agreement Made
for One Year.

II
in progress for fourteen weeks. to the
great damage and discomfort of the
people Of Honolulu. has finally been
amicably adjusted. and the journey
former employers Immediately. The
plumbers struck May list for an ad-
vance in wages of from five dollars TO
six dollars per day, and the compro-
mise was made at $3.50 per day, which
is accepted as satisfactory by both
master plumbers and journeymen
Thirty-two men go back to work under
the new scale, which is to be effective
for one year, though a good many
others who went out on the strike
originally have left the city, many re-
turning to San Francisco and others
going to Manila.
The settlement was reached at a
meeting of the arbitration committees
from both sides, held Thursday at noon,
and the agreement signed by the com
mittees was accepted by Local jour
neynan's Union No. 223 at meeting
held the same evening. The agree
ment was ratified by the Master Plumb
ers Association at their meeting last
evening. Members of both organiza-
tons and of the respective arbitration
committees We're seen yesterday by an
Advertiser reporter but neither SEEM
ed anxious to discuss the matter
though freely admitting that the strike
was ended and that the settlement was
satisfactory Aside from the admis-
sion of the compromise and the scale
agreed upon. little information was Civ
en- out. s.
The members of the arbitration COM
mittee for the master plumbers were
Messrs.e Bath. Gering and Davidson;
for the striking j6urneymen, O'Donnel.
chairman; Reed and one other mem
Der whose name could not be learned.
The meeting of the two committees at
which the compromise was reached
was held Thursday morning, after a
number of Intellectual attempts to
reach a settlement had been made.
BY the terms of this agreement the
Ijourneyfnen plumbers are to receive
uniform rate of $3.50 per day of eight
hours. The journeymen were receiv-
ing five dollars per day and demanded
lsix.
| The second part of the agreement is
to the effect that the master plumbers
shall employ no one but members OF
the journeymans union, and the jour
neymen agree to work for no one not
member of the Master Plumbers As
ISOLATION
| The third clause in the agreement
provides that the new scale is to take
effect Immediately and to be in force
| for one year from date.
! The strike has been in force since
the first day of May. on which dat
the ultimatum served on the maste
plumbers vert into effect. The strik
has interfered seriously with man.
improvements contemplated but whicl
could not be completed because o
failure to supply plumbing connections
The extension of the sewerage system
by the Board of Public Works has ais
been impeded by the strike, ana ther
are scores of applications for sewe
connections on file which could not b
made. because of failure TO secur
plumbers to do the work.
To one very unusual feature OF til
strike is due the fact that condition
have been. no worse than they We're
The strikers or at least as mauy as re
manned In Honolulu went - y ork o
their own account, and some of ther
opened small shops, from which the
executed orders. The settlement of tn
strike in a manner perfectly satisfac
tory to both sides will be source c
great qualification, as many improve
ments delayed because of the strik
can now be accomplished. 1t Is eS
pected also that the settlement of tn
strike will cause the influx of enoug
more plumbers from the states to sur
ply the demand for their services.
T. F. Dawson, speaking for the mas
ter. plumbers last evening, said: 9TH
strike is settled in a manner satisfat
tory to both sides, and I do not thin
any more need be said than that. TIL
wage scale as agreed Upon was agree
allie to both journeymen and maste
plumbers and the men will go to wor
urder the new scale Immediately
Mr.. Reed a member of the arbitrs
ton committee for the journeymel
said The strike has been settled an
some of the men started to work t
day. The scale was accepted at So
at special meeting of the union hel
last evening and was satisfactory
on, men. We do not care to discu:
the affair in the newspapers, except
gay that the terms of arbitration al
acceptable to u.s.
Some of the men went to work We:
terday but the majority of the striker
VIII not return to their places befol
E Monday.