The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-02-08
PLUMBERS
OUT.
Baird'S Advice Has
But Little
Effect.
FOUR COAST MEN
CAUSE TROUBLE
G. H. Brown Suspended Because
He Would not Discharge Men
He Had Brought Here.
r UNITED STATES DISTRICT AT
TORNEY BAIRD'S timely state
4 ments in regard to the threatened

union yesterday and the strike be-
came a weak effort to maintain a much
talked of desire to intimidate four Coast
plumbers from getting admittance to
the association.
Instead of going out upon the strike
with a defiant attitude, the members
quit their jobs in the shops of the mas
ter plumbers very quietly and gathered
at the association hall to talk it over
and question it's wisdom.
None of the plumbers of the union
went to work yesterday. The only
working plumbers were the four whom
Master Plumbers Brown and Sellers
had imported, and whom the local as
ISOLATION refused to admit to member
ship except upon the payment of a $50
initiation fee. Brown and Sellers were
at first undecided just what answer
to give, but at last Brown took a firm
stand in the matter and decided to
stand by his men, while Sellers weak
cncd at the last moment and discharg-
ed two of his workmen. With the eX-
ception of these two men the maste"
plumbers of the city We're a unit in
standing by their fellows and the in
litative for the settlement of the differ
ences had to come from the journeymen
themselves.
President Connors of the Journeymen
J Association made many contradictory
statements during the day, and when
asked whether all the men had gone
out, he said:
"Oh we haven't struck. There isn't
anything in that at all. 1t is simply
the individual differences of some of the
men with the master plumbers and they
did not go to work today. No, sir, there
is no strike. Why, don't you know it's
against the law to order a strike? We
are law-abiding men and haven't any
intention of breaking the laws of the
land"
did you order the association out
on a strike last night?"
mo, 1 did not. l can't do it, I
haven't the authority.
IF it is a question of individual diff
ferences, how Is 1t that all the master
! plumbers are minus workmen today?'
well, of course, when some of the
men stayed away from their jobs, the
others thought they would do the same.
I Now, as to these four men, only two
of them came from Seattle. And they
amt members of the Seattle union, |
either. We don't know them They
haven't presented us with cards show |
ing where they We're members and we
=" sro oNeu t'''t ~, lo' a" iiil'ia ',on ie
VI gov toi .nes maven coii'e " assn
o' c S,uli''' IN ~ 'i'e associ".,on
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- w N'o o', as " Wnelner 'ns
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"eie union members ne
"as VI 'i'e opii'ioh 'iia' 'hey were not
members III sooo stahuihS, other"lse
."eS Moulu nave presented 'heir tlelh-
oership c"rus' ne uehleo apsolutely OF
i"Nihs any hhoWieuSe OIL the sou itii'la-
''o , lee iIeiuen.'
Wna' uoes 'fe ASSOCIATION propose
10 NO ~, 'l'iS matter was asked
Nc'' we nave U'eet'is 'o"ish'
anu II THESE tour men Apply ior mem
o .'l. we WIN to'lSluer thelr appilca-
~ l"t 'tH's en'lre's WIN thei'l'
- my want ~ J"ln' an 'heE nave "
uo - 'U present ',eir "pp,,catlors ana
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"'ai i''ee''ns'
The president evaded the issue as to
whether there was strike in progress, e
but as the association hall was crowded !
to its fun capacity at the time. 1t was
quite evident that walk-out had been l
agreed upon at the meeting on the 6
night previous. Connors' own state t
nent Monday night that the journey
men would know at o'clock yesterday
morning whether there would be
strike on Is significant in that none of =
the journeymen reported for work at =
the shops of the master plumbers.
Connors attempted to wax jocose over
the matter and stated that the men v
were not working because the weather =,