Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-28

GIedI cHOrlS are HOW DelHS Illduc
by the boss carpenters and the jour
neymen TO reach an agreement re-
garding a new wage scale before
Tuesday morning. If they do not
come to some terms by that time it is
certain that the carpenters will de-
clare strike Monday night and it is
understood that a number of other
trades will go out with them, and,
from all reports. it will be one of the
worst labor situations that has ever
confronted this city.
A special meeting of the Buildings
Trades Association, which is com
posed of the bosses, will be held in
the rooms in the Dana building in
Smith street tonight for the purpose
of talking over the matter.
A meeting of the journeymen car
penters has also been called for to-
night in the union rooms in the Ade-
aide building. The carpenters and
joiners will talk the matter over and
wait until the bosses meeting has
ended when they expect a notice from
them as 10 what they are going to do.
The journeymen will hold out to the
first demands.
1t is gradually becoming known
about the city that for years the ma
sons and bricklayers and the carpen-
ters and joiners have not been on the
best of terms regarding a standard of
wages The masons and briclllayers
have always received more than the
carpenters and ioiners, the latter
claim, and this year, when the ma
sons and bricklayers agreed to de-
mand $4 80 per day and then agreed
to accept half of what they asked for,
the carpenters and joiners met and
decided to hold out for what they
originally asked.
In speaking about the matter to II
NEWS reporter this morning a car
penter said: BOSSES do not seem to
think so much of paying the masons
and bricklayers high wages, but when
we ask for a reasonable increase the
trouble starts. Our work is just as
hard as the masons and bricllayers,
and it needs just as much skill We
they cost more this year than ever
before, and everything else has gone
up. We are determined to stick out
for what we asked first
Throughout the city today mcchan-
les and laborcrs who are in any way
connected with the building trades
hope that the trouble will be patch
ed up at the meetings before Tuesday,
but they all hold to the same thing
that if the war was started they
would all stand together, for all of
the men have talked it over and
agreed that if the bosses do not give
in ii will be impossible for the men
who are working as employees to CON
tinue at the job, and the only result,
aS far as can be seen, will be Il gen
eral tie-up.
When seen by il NEWS reporter
this morning a boss, who is mem
Der of the building trades associa
ton, said that at the present time it
was hard TO tell how things would
come out, as some bosses seemed to
be of the opinion that it would be
wise to give the carpenters what they
asked and others seemed to think
that it was impossible to pay the de-
mands. The matters hangs fire and
thousands of men in this city will
await the result of the meeting of the
building trades association tonight
with much interest.
James L. Donehue, the secretary of
the building trades council, which is
composed of delegate from each
trade in this city, has issued call
for a special meeting to be held in the
union rooms in the Adelaide build
ing Monday night at O'Clock At
this meeting it is expected that the
official notice of just what the boss
carpenters have decided to do will be
received If the bosses have agreed