Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-11

morning are, with some additions, the
same as were set forth by the 'News'
on Monday night. Incidentally the
publication IN the News" Of the plaN
Of the men caused considerable talk az
a meeting OF the lodge last night,
which was called for the purpose OF
passing upon the bylaws and nciden-
tally outlining the plan of campaign.
The meeting started In at S O'Clock p,
m, and did not adjourn until midnight
During the discussion some Of the
members got very angry and wanted TO
promote an Investigation. find out who
had given away secret information and
fine the culprit heavily.
The new set Of rules adopted after
the long session last night includI 10
clause that only one boss In any shop
should handle the TOOLS and It Is upon
this clause that the smaller shops are
proposing TO make a stiff fight. The
drum trap and lead bends clause. Il
was decided after considerable discus
sion, viii not go into effect until after
Sept. /. This action was taken so as
TO allow the shops to use up the i'm
ported articles that they have in stock
by that time, Consequently. the print
ed sets Of rules handed TO the masters
this morning bore a notation 10 that
effect In pencil after section 4 OF ard
Gle viii
In addition TO what was set forth In
the News on Monday however, there
are other clauses which win be Of In
terest to the general public The men
ask that the wages OF the Juniors be
raised 50 cents a day Of eight hours
Sundays, Christmas. Labor day and
Fourth Of July shall be double time;
all other holidays single time. Car fare
must be paid all men working outside
of a radius OF one mile from the shop
and any member Of the union working
out Of town shall receive Transports
ton board ami lodging, also full time
To date from leaving and returning to
the city. Any member reporting TO
work In the morning and getting laid
on shall be- entitled to one-fourth days
pay no junior shall be allowed to work
In shop where there Is no Journey
man working, unless all journeymen
are employed Steam filters shall be
allowed but one helper
Here Is another clause which is not
meeting with favor from the bosses:
There shall be but one plumbers APP
prentice TO each shop, but after all reg
istered apprentices are exhausted,
there shall be no more registered"
Another reads that no member Of the
union shall lay a pipe in any ditch dug
by any lab0rer who Is In the habit of
repairing any hydrant or In any way
infringing on the plumbers craft
But perhaps the gem, from the stand
point OF the man who pays the plumb
ing bill for the time taken up by the
hands when they fetch their tools OF
have found out that they have forgot
ten something at the shop, is essen
TALLY section OF article J. Here IL is
verbatim:
mo member OF this association shall
be allowed TO use a bicycle during
working hours. Any member violating
this section shall be fined S."
number of houses were visited by
the News today and the sentiments
expressed by the men and the employ
ers were as interesting as they were
diversified. Such large shops as w. =.
Moran and George Doyle ana company
were not considerably disturbed BY the
action Of the men. In their opinion
the matter would be amicably adjusted
although they had not given a decided
answer and proposed to attend the
meeting
Ii was among the smaller shops where
the matter was taken to heart. In
these shops from one to three or four
bosses handle the tools alongside Of
their men. They, one and all, emphat-
ically declared that they saw no reason
why they should not do so.
None OF them cared to go on record
for publication. Said one: II do not
want to get mixed mp In this thing be-
cause | nave been there before. but we
will get together and see II we cannot
run our shop even II we have 20 nut
UP sign like the Vienna did. II we
give the men what they ask the next
thing will be that they will ask for s.
a day and other things only a year
ago the plumbers had a 81 so raise and
through that strike | had 10 pay sew
eral thousand dollars out Of my own
pocket on account Of contracts / had
made"
Mr.. James said ~ have never kept
my men out OF a job, hut do not want
my hands tied. | do not handle the
tools. but ! do not want to be I'm a
position where II IL came to the pinch
/ should be prohibited from so do
ing"
Mr. Dumbeck said II do not pro-
pose to have a set Of rules fired at me
and then be asked TO give my answer
before | have had time 10 read them
over. l have heard talk about what
the plumbers were going 10 do but the
first definite thing ] knew was when
/ read the News" on Monday night.
For one | will see this thing TO a show
down and do not mean 10 be bull
dozed into anything. / have been In a
strike before and the men got the worst
Of IL. ! guess that can stand It again.
As for the lead bend and drum trap
matter that win be nothing out OF our
pocket for the public viii have 10 pay
for that but there Is not plumber in
Salt Lake now who can make a decent
drum trap like the imported article.
You struck It all right IN the Deseret
News when you said that they wanted |
TO bar progress"