Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-01
MANY STRIKES TODAY
New York Building Trades
Involved.
QUESTION OF WAGES
OVER $1,000 MEN WILL BE AB-
FECTED.
Brewery Workers in Columbus and
Number of Miners Also
Quit Work.

county to the Connecticut border, was in
augurated today. The strike, too has ex-
tended to points further up New York
state. and to places In Connecticut. The
contractors as we'll as the men are organ
tied, and are prepared for siege. The
men out in Westchester county demand an
eight hour day with Saturday half holiday
and the following scale:
Plumbers, 81 a day; lathers, s4.20; car
penters, $500; painters, $32s; bricklayers,
masons and plasterers $4.20; timers, So. %.
and bench and machine men, ST a week
A proposition to meet the men half way
was rejected. Work was stopped on sew
eral new mansions along the sound today,
between three and four thousand men fail
ing to report for work.
At Glen Falls the demand Of the en-
ployes Of the building trades for a 25 per
cent increase was acceded to.
Brewery Workers Strike.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. April Local brew
cry workers to the number of 600 struck to-
day.
The fight will be a repetition Of that re-
Gently waged by brewers in Cincinnati and
was caused by the United Brewery Work
ers' crafts refusing to accept the decision
of the American Federation of Labor con-
firemen in brewery plants must affiliate
with their respective crafts. The engineers
and fremen will remain at work
Another Objectionable clause in the agree
ment gives the proprietors the right to en-
ploy and discharge the men. The unions
want that right. The Columbus Brewing
Company has signed the scale.
Carpenters Strike at Schenectady.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y. April 1.-The
long threatened strike of the carpenters
for 40 cents an hour instead of 80 cents,
the present rate, began today. and build
ing operations are tied up throughout the
city. Over 500 men are affected and they
declare they will have the support of the
allied trades. leading contractor said
today that non-uniOn men will be brought
here Immediately in order to complete the
as to start fresh operations. The strikers
declare that II this is done men in the al
lied trades will refuse to handle the work.
GREENWICH. Conn., April 1-Nearly
LOO men employed in the building trades
In this and neighboring villages went on
strike today to enforce q demand for an
increase In wages, Saturday half holiday
and the use of material bearing the union
label. The contractors by whom the men
have been employed belong to the Green
wich Contractors Association, and MANY Of
them are also members Of the Interstate
Association of Master Builders, which In
cludes contractors in Connecticut and New
York. 1t is understood that the contractors
are willing to consider the pay Increase
asked for, but they object to the Saturday
half holiday and the demand for the ex-
elusive use Of union-made materials.
More Wages and Shorter Hours.
SARATOGA, n. Y, April 1.-Three hun
dred painters. paperhangers, decorators
masons, bricklayers, plasterers, members
OF two unions. inaugurated strike today
for an increase in wages and a decrease in
hours of labor.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 1.-Five hun
dred union painters went on strike here
today TO enforce their demand for an in
crease of 21e cents an hour. Under the old
scale the painters received 80 cents an hour
and now ask 3712.
OSWEGO. N. Y, April lone hundred
and sixty carpenters and 800 Iaborers are
on strike here today for an eight hour day
with no reduction in wages.
SHAMOKIN, Pa, April 1.-The local
leagues of plumbers and tinsmiths of the
international unions went on strike today
for 10 per cent Increase and a nine hour
work day.
Ohio Miners Go Out.
BELLAIRE, Ohio, April lone thousand
miners in the four Panhandle counties OF
West Virginia and Belmont county, Ohio
which constitute the NTH Ohio subdistrict
refused to go to work today because the
operators decline to sign the scale adopted
at the joint conference at Wheeling. held
some time ago The operators say they
were not invited to the Wheeling confer
ence and therefore they will not sign the
scale.
SHAMOKIN. Pa, April 1.-FIfteen hum
dred men and boys went on strike al three
collierles, owned by individual operators
mere today because the owners wanted
them to go to work a half hour later than
at present and take a half hour more time
for dinner.
: AT another colliery 300 men struck be-
cause the owners would not add another
shift to their two-shift set of fremen on
account Of the eight-hour labor day
Few miners are working in this res .on to-
day. The workers are taking a holiday in
honor of the findings of the strike commits
sion.
SAGINAW, Mich, April The bitumi-
nous coal mines OF Michigan shut down to-
day pending the results OF tomorrow nights
conference between the Michigan operators
and a committee of the miners in President
hitchelfs office at Indiana polls on the mat
1er ,r, OF pushing loaded cars out Of the mine.
This Is the point the wage scale confer
ence split on at Bay City. A settlement is
expected.
Colorado Strike Declared Off.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, April l.
The strike at Colorado City, which has been
In progress since February ii, and the
strike in the mines in the Cripple Creek dis
trict shipping to the United States Reduc
ton and Refining Company's plants which
was ordered as result Of the Colorado
City strike, have been declared off by
President Meyer Of the Western Federation
OF Miners. The action Of the chief execu-
tive was taken after a number of confer
ences with the officials OF the federation
and came In the nature Of a surprise to the
advisory board appointed by Governor Pea
body, which had been exerting every infiu-
ence In Its power 10 bring the principals IN
the fight together
The only question at issue has been the
time at which the strikers should be rein
stated. President Meyer accepts the prom
tse of Manager MacNetIl that the men shall
all be re-employed by May Is.
He-Up at Sharon, Pa.
SHARON, Pa, April 1.-The bricklayers
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