Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-29
PAY DAY
 FOR MASONS
New Plan Submit
 ted to Bosses.
Members of Local Union Want Money Saturday Night and at Place Where They Are Working
 Bakers Proposition.


 contract to be presented to the Mas ter builders for the current year was agreed upon. It is substantially the same as the one they have been and are now working under with the ex- ception of a few things which it is expected will be threShed out at meeting of a committee representing the men and the bosses tonight. The union is not asking for more wages or less hours, but it is seeking after one or two things not included in the old agreement. For instance they don't like the idea of tranping from where they work to the office of their employ CTS for their wages and want to be paid on the work every Saturday at o'clock.
 Ut is not pleasant" remarked bricklayer, ito walk maybe d mile from your work to an office for your pay in all kinds of weather, hot and cold as it happens to be, in your working clothes, especially on Satur- day afternoon, when man in this business wants all the time at his dis posal to clean up after the week. don't see why we can't be paid on the job and in this way save us whole lot of walking at a time when we are not badly in need of exercise
 Il am not authorized to speak on the l question:" said one of the contractors, when approached on the subject, "but l suppose it is no harm to say that 1t 1 speaks well for Waterbury to know | that the bricklayerS and masons have no grievance so far as wages and treat ment go. The other things brought up may appear trivial, but when you stop to consider them carefully they mean a great deal. It would be an easy matter to pay help at certain l time on the job provided you had but one gang, but it should be remember ed that there are times when contract OrS have men in a dozen different I places and if all had to be paid at 1 their work and at the same hour you would want a paymaster for every gang. The plan is not desirable, any way, even though we could pay all at the same time. Carrying so much ready cash about the streets is not just l the thing to do and I think the men will say so when they think it over Many a man got his brains blown out for considerably less than the payroll of Waterbury contractor. If they had meeting place where all could go at quitting time they could be paid there, but I'm afraid contractors will think long time before agreeing to l send paymaster here and there with I a bag of money under his arm
 The answer to a question as to whether he expected trouble over this or anything else asked by the men, he said he didn't, adding that between l the contractors and the help they ought to be able to drum I'D enough l common sense to ward off anything that would tend to create confusion
 Present indications point to a clash between the journeymen bakers and the employing bakers of this city un- less the wise men of both sides get | together and agree upon compromise. Only day remains before the 1st of May, when the new agreement submit ted by the journeymen bakers is sup posed to go-into effect, but as yet only two employing bakers have signed the agreement. One of these bakers enl- ploys one man, while the other it is reported, is going out of business ill the near future and anyway he is now having his baking done in the daytime so the new schedule does not affect him. The employing bakers are deter mined not to grant the request that the night work shall be done away with.
 One of the leading employing bakers said to-day: We will not sign any 1 agreement abolishing night work. II wcnld be impossible for large ma
 jority of us to have our baking done during the daytime, as our shops are not properly equipped. The change would involve q large expense, which | We are not able to stand at this time
 We will fight the demand if it is insist
 ed upon. The journeymen bakers know the condition of affairs as well as we do, but a few of them are al
 ways looking for trouble. know the majority of my men are perfectly sat isfied to work nights. We might as well fight it out with the journeymeI bakers this year as next. They want day work this year, next year they will demand an eight hour day. wonder if they think we are in the business for fun or the benefit of our health"
 Such is the condition of affairs be
 tween the bakers and their help in this city. Over in Meriden the journeymen
 bakers have met with as little success in having the employing bakers sign an agreement abolishing night work The Meriden union has invited the em ploying bakers to confer with it's com
 mittee on next Saturday in regard tc
 the demand for day work. It is proba
 ble that compromise will be agreed upon.
 A Meriden paper says: "The con
 tracts which contained the clause re
 lating to night work were collected to
 day by the bakers. 1t is said that none
 of the boss bakers signed them and that the bakers intend altering the ob | Lof c.Y1l1,