Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-16
STRIKES ARE STILL ON
THE PLUMBERS AND CARRIAGE
WORKERS REMAIN OUT.
May Continue Indefinitely - Former
Issue Statement Regarding Mr..
Hurley's Interview.

No new developments were noted today
in the strikes of the journeymen plumbers
and carriage workers, and it is predicted
that the strikes may be prolonged indef-
nitely. A regular meeting of the Carriage
Workers Union was held last night at l2O4
Pennsylvania avenue northwest. Matters
pertaining to the strike were discussed In
executive session. but no change In the gen.
eral outlook was reported. Several of the
union men stated that unless the trouble
was settled soon the cooperative shop
would be started by the strikers. but no
definite date for such action was given out.
The Master Plumbers Association made
the following statement today:
Master Plumbers Statement.
The interview in The Star yesterday, in
which Mr.. Hurley. who was forced by a
boycott to capitulate to the journeymen
plumbers. made certain statements, is only
another evidence of the weakness of the
position of the journeymen. The state
ment, said a journeyman today, was die
tated by our representative, and Mr.. Hur-
ley's signing it was one of the conditions
of the lifting of our boycott from his shop
Mr.. Hurley. whose, business is confined
almost exclusively in this city as the rep
resentative of a manufac turer Of a beer
pump, employs only two plumbers on this
work. and therefore has no need of help
ers, two apprentices being allowed to his
shop. His business is confined almost en-
tirely to the repair of beer pumps and
minor plumbing jobs around the different
saloons in the city: and. as the majority
of the customers of saloons are affiliated
with labor organizations the bartenders
themselves being members of a union. they
We're in a position to put him out of bus
mess or force him to acceed to any demands
,itrlt how
sonable, before, they would lift the boycott
which they had declared against him.
Workmen Into Partnership.
He took his two workmen into a part
nership, as published in all the local pa
pers. but the union would not recognize
this partnership, nor would it lift the boy
colt from him until he withdrew from the
Master Plumbers Association, and, as it
appears from the above, agreed to sign any
statement that the journeymen's union
might demand of him.
THE whole transaction is very discred-
liable to the instigators of the movement
and has caused the masters to stand more
firmly than ever against an organized body
who in the past at present, and no doubt,
in future, if the power were still in them.
exact unusual and unjust demands from
their employers.
I'VE regret the journeymen have seen
fit to stoop to this manner of procedure,
as it is calculated to disrupt the pleasant
relations between them and their former
employers.
"They cannot expect to weaken the po-
sition of the master plumbers or to change
the well-developed public opinion by the
publication of statements of this char
acter. which are ridiculous and untrue in
their entirety. They acknowledge that
they themselves have asked for helpers in
the past. and they know fully we'll that it
is impossible for them to. do their work
properly without an assistant