Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-02


 at issue are adjusted during the present week. The carpenters and ioiners, numbering about $40 have made up their minds that they will not drive another nail until their de mands are acceeded to, the principal contention being that the minimum wage per day be $2.S0 instead of $2.5O. The men held meeting and decided to go out by vote of something in the neighborhood of 1S9 to B. This was not done until after the meeting had been assured that the master builders had declined to sign their proposed contract. The men met this morning and reaffirmed the action of Saturday night so that unless either one side yields to the other, or both get good natured and move a little in the same direction a long struggle is in sight.
 Peck & Carroll, Wilcox & Taffel and MT Ashborn have signed the contract and their men are at worK. The prin- cipal jobs on which operations are practically at standstill are the Waterbury hotel, the postOfice block, the Margaret Croft school, 22 rooms, he four story brick structure of John McEvOy on Bank street the c. l.. Holmes and F. B. Rice blocks on the burned districts on Grand street, the Lewis block on the site of the Scovill house, the B. J. Manville shop at the junction of Dublin and East Main streets, the two and a half story, fac tory of A. H. Wells on the WatertoWn road, the seven tenement block ot, Mrs Sarah J. Hayes on North Main street, the addition to the Waterbury Button Co, l.. R. Carter's block on West Main street, John J. Brophy's building on esfr Fl I1n ah r1P n of Lourdes, St Francis Xavier's church and number of other loI,s ill all parts of the town. It was said to- day that owing to the fact that the carpenter work on St Francis Xaviars church and rectory is being done by an out Of town contractor, the wood work will be conducted without interrup= tion. The biggest job in hand by any contractor affected by the strike is the F. Cole &S Burnham shop at ,Bridga- port, which is being donaby the Tracy Brothers.
 Business Agent Smith of the Car penters' and Joiners' union said today that he was hopeful of q settlement in the near future but at the present time there was really nothing new to re- port except that they had failed to avoid strike, much as they would like to have done it. He said there was difference of opinion among the posses on the disputed points and he thought that after q little considera- uon all would see that the position taken by the carpenters and ioiners Ot Waterbury is not at all unreason able, and is far from what the craft IS getting in other parts of the state.
 The bricklayers and masons are ollt. 100, although they went to their places or employment this morning prepared to put in a good day, but findine no helpers on hand they could no nothing ms threw over 200 skilled Workmen Iilo III, HlVoiuntary likeness and many of them felt sore over it. The Iaying off of the bricklayers and masons nyas brought on by the Hodcarriers, union whose members have trouble of tbair own, the bosses refusing to sign their coillract, although they claim if is ina same as the old one. They met Sat uruay nlgnt and vowed not to put an otner hod on their shoulders unfil tbev round out where they were at. Ona Of them said that they had asked fo, hotnlng new, their agreement simnIv calilng for twenty-five cents an hon, the same as they had last yeor and notnlng more He remarked that tbo posses wanted to insert a clause to s, sne erect that they couId hlfe union or nor- -,,,,il,. nls men and they draw the line at this. ! here IS a row on for soma tina nast between the ChatfieIds and tha ,,i9ia7, p5, over the employment of a non-u,,ior uou-carrleT. 1t is said that he joined or promised to join, but negIected tn square himself with the secretary and the union men sought to have him dis cnarged. but the company wouldn't pave 1t. The bricklayers and masons VIII meet tomorrow night when # is understood, an answer will be received rom the master builders regarding Inelr proposition. The snarI between lnese parties is confined chiefly to ap- pl fntlces. The union wants but two Io each contractor. but the contrac- TOT think this all wrong and take the gr' md that it should be ten or frac- flol thereof, in proportion to the num- Der of help firm employs.
 Jonn w. GaffDey of the Master Builders association takes honefnl view of the situation He said the posses are willing to sign last years contract with the od-carriers- and that the difference was the result of a misunderstanding which he expected To see strengthened out some time this afternoon. He looked for no trouble with the bricklayers and masons. 'I think" he said. "the men cannot help seeing the injustice of the clause which confines all contractors to two appren- tices. That fixesIt so that a contrac- tor who does not Nmploy over half a dozen men can have the same number of apprentices as one who has a pay roll of several hundred. Do you think that fair? They say this is regulated by the national body and that they have nothing to do with it. We'll, even. agree.v
 The number of men idle on account of the strike cannot be far from 1000,