Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02
UKASE OF LABOR MEN
JoURNEYMEN PLUMBERS ISSUE
AN ULTIMATUM.

Determined that longer delay on part OF
the Master Plumbers Association in nam
ing their arbitrators shall not be tolerated,
delegates from all local building trades, at
a meeting in the Corcoran building last
night framed what is practically an ultima
tum to the Master Builders Associations.
This call for immediate and final action
took the form of a letter to James L. Mar
shall, president Of the Master Builders and
chairman of the joint conference committee.
asking him to call a special meeting of the
subcommittee appointed to receive the
names Of the arbitrators of the Journeymen
Plumbers Association, Local Union No. 8.
U. A.. and Of the Master Plumbers Asso-
citation. for next Tuesday, September 4, at II
o clock noon. to receive their nominations
It was further specified that il either party
should fail to make the necessary nomina-
lions at that hour the subcommittee
shall call meeting OF the full conference
committee to be held in the Small building.
14th and G streets northwest, Tuesday
evening at o'clock.
Ever since the conference of a week ago,
when the building trades. exclusive of the
Journeymen Plumbers. agreed to return to
work upon the Master Plumbers agreeing
to the union demand that the differences
which led to the lockout of the journeymen
plumbers by their employers six months
ago should be submitted to arbitration. in
terest in the expected announcement of the
names Of the arbitrator has been at fever
heat.
Position Of Journeymen Outlined.
Monday the Journeymen Plumbers As
sociaAion came forward with a formal
statement that they were ready to name
their representatives and the building
trades awaited from day to day similar
announcement from the Master Plumbers.
1t is said that prompt action was promised
from both sides. and last Wednesday, at
the latest. was tacitly accepted as the date
on which four of the arbitrators would be
named and the nominations ratified so that
the four could meet and effect organiza-
ton by agreeing upon and electfng the fifth
member OF their board. When Wednesday
passed and then Thursday and Friday
with no action save criticism of the nom
inees. whom 1t was more or less. accurately
rumored that the journeymen had chosen.
much Impotence was manifested among
the locked-out plumbers and among the
building trades generally and. because 1t
to a head. the building trades meeting last
night attracted a large attendance.
Beside the Journeymen Plumbers. who
are most interested. there were representa-
the Plasterers. the Electrical Workers.
Sheet Metal Workers. Tile Settlers, Paint
ers. Structural Iron Workers. Hosting En-
gineers. Elevator Constructors, Interior
Marble Workers. Stone Settlers. Stone Cut
ters Carpenters and Slate and Tile. Roof
ers. Full and free discussion Of the points
at issue obtained for nearly two hours. and
the ultimatum to the Master Builders was
the result.
Later last night 1t was learned that the
sense of the meeting had reached the Mas
ter Plumbers Association, and the intima-
ton gathered was that the meeting OF the
ernoon would probably be advanced q few
hours and held In the forenoon.