The age-herald., 1902-05-10
STATEMENT FROM
 THE CARPENTERS Troy Set Forth Their Side and
 Give Reasons
ADVANCED COST OF LIVING
The Union Plasterers Give the Union Carpenters Not Only Their Moral Support, But Their Actual
 Support as Well.

An officer of the Master Builders As
 5ociation said yesterday that three or
 four of the smaller contractors had re- sumed work and that work would be
 started up all along the line' on Mon-
 lay Asked if there would be any fur
 ther conferences between the builders
 lnd the union carpenters between now md Monday. said he could not answer
 that question. He intimatcd, however,
 that such a conference might possibly
 be held.
 no Carpenters District Council has
 equested the publication of the follow | ing:
 The Carpenters and Joiners District 1 Council begs leave to state through your inr1u4 ta the general public our side in full of the controversy which is now on
 between the Master Builders Association and the carpenters and joiners of this district In the first place. the District
 Councils duty is to draft the working rules for the district and submit the
 same to all locals for their adoption,
 which was done, and they were almost
 unanimously adopted and the same pub
 lished in the News February 1 of this year and in two issues of the succeeding
 week in each of the daily papers of Bir-
 mingham and in several issues of the La | Dor Advocate.
 We believed it right and just to give
 this ninety days notice so the builders would have ample time to prepare their work at such figures as would enable them to meet these moderate demands. The only demands in controversy are as | follows:
 The Demands. Rule 4. Member of the U B. Shall be
 permitted to work more than one day 1 with d non-union carpenter or foreman unless said carpenter of foreman shall file
 his application for membership in the
 U. B.
 Rule g. Eight hours shall constitute a days work for all members of the U. B. in this district and all work must be done between the hours of [ 80 a. m | and 4;30 p. m.
 Rule 10 The minimum scale of wages | for all journeymen carpenters belonging to the U. B. shall be 35 cents per hour. "In the last conference that was held l between the two com mittees of Master l Builders and Carpenters District Council | Rule was conceded to the Master Build | CTS. leaving 1t optional with them whether | they. employ union or non-union foremen as the builders contended that they | foremen were their agents and that they | should have the right of employing non
 union foreman if they so desired. Yet they rVfused to concede to us the S-hour day | with a minimum wage of 35 cents an | hour.
 We feel that our demands are mod crate and reasonable when we compare them with the advance in the price of | other commodities that are necessary for the sustenance of life, to say nothing of
 comfort, and while we do not object to
 the advance in the prices of dry goods,
 we all know that they have at a moder- ate rate kept pace with other things that | have advanced.
 Then we feel safe In saying that house
 rents have advanced fully 75 per cent in the last two years. and in many instances
 more than that. We also know that build ing material has advanced to some ex- tent, and largely so In some particulars. Then the advance in the price of house
 building is not altogether chargable to
 the small advance of five cents per hour,
 in the carpenters demands.
 "rhe general public no doubt by this
 time is of the opinion that the carpenters were trying to force into the employ of the builders men who are very inferior
 mechanicsF and not worth the scale.
 while the contractors well know that
 they have the right to discharge or have discharged any man whom they do not consider worth the scale. It is
 not the Intention, TOT would we
 try to uPhold any man that the
 contractors would not employ for in
 competency; but we do contend that vixen they do employ these men whom they call incompet ent that they shall pay them the minimum scale. We also give them the privilege of paying good me chanics all they are worth. It is cer- tainly our intention and wish to build
 up our craft, but how can we do so when
 other towns offer better inducements than
 ours. Is 1t natural to suppose that good mechanics would locate in our town when better wages and hours are offered
 elsewhere. Respectfully submitted, CARPENTERS DISTRICT COUNCIL" | The district council has passed a reso-
 lution to call off union carpenters from any job where non-union bricklayers or other non-union mechanics happen to be employed. The council asked the union
 pidsl srcrs to give the carpenters their moral support This request was not only complied with but at a special meeting of Local No. 62, O. P. I. A. last night reso- lution was unanimously adopted giving the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners their actual as well as moral surlmrt. which means that inc plasterers will not work with non-union carpenters or any onther non-union mechanics; that they will not work for any contractor whr dJ,s not sigi. the union carpenters scale.
 hence. There ere no oroakers, no loafers