The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-07
union CARPENTERS ON STRIKE
National ORGANIZATION is Backing
the Raleigh Workmen.
There are 100 Members i'm the Union.
Work at BuckhOrn Shoals Entirely
.StOpped-Encampment at Chicka-
manga Will q Eight Days.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. G. August 2

Raleigh, n. c. August 2
Revenue Collector Duncan returned
today from a short visit to Atlantic
City.
Farmers today brought in the news
that, thanks to the continued rains
and the remarkable lack Of sunshine,
cotton is beginning to shed on sandy
lands. There is less of this trouble on
clay soils. There were more rains
today. Night before last there was y
washOut between here and Goldsboro
on the Southern Railway which delayed
the train several hours.
Work on the great plant Of the Cape
Fear Power Company at BuckhOrn
Shoals, near Haywood, in Chatham
county has been entirely stopped. The
company is in the Federal court. Four
hundred thousand dollars has been
spent and 500, 900 more is needed 20
complete the work. Unpaid interest
will bring the sum up to $4,000. The
court ordered hat the contractors
should 90 on with their work, but they
will not DO this, some of them being
dependent upon others. The judge is
now at Mt. Vernon Springs and the
receivers will go to see him this week
and see what can be done. Owing t
the stOppage Of work, the property IS
deterioating. There were three princi-
pal contractors, in Pennsylvania, Fir-
ginia and local.
The report on the fire at the laun-
dry of the Central Hospital for the
insane yesterday is that it was in the
machine room and also in the roof
The attendants put out the fire in the
machine room, but the city depart
ment had TO extinguish that in the
roof, it being necessary to cut holes
through the metal roof. A fireman said
that the premises ought to be given
very special attention, as a fire had
occurred there nearly two years ago.
Your correspondent went to the
hall where the striking carpenters have
their headquarters, and talked with
them about the strike here, which be-
gan yesterday morning. They say there
dlS IEU I1C1l1OC1o III IhC ullio1i, an
white and that these have been work.
ing under IA contractors, the days
work having been strictly ten hours.
The average wages are about 81 per
hay, a good many men getting $1.75
and some fOremen as much as S.. The
union men say there are a few carpen-
tiers outside the union, but do not know
their number, though they estimate il
~ o-1,- ,hc,I+ ~ Inzon who h oJn hp0n
employed On outside work. They do
not know how many are in the shops.
They say that in two cases the CON
tractors have acceded to the demands
Of the strikers, and that today they
will go to work on the same basis on
he East Raleigh public school. The
national organization has endorsed the
strike, and George c. Griffin, of IN
dianapolis, is here to look into the mat
ter. The strike was declared Tuesday
night but had been on the hooks three
months, and the contractors were no
tilted three months 9 o the exact date
having been stated to them thirty days
ago. Organizer Griffin was seen and
that he had been sent here by the
national Office to carry out the plans
of the strikers, which had been fully
endorsed and that the national organ
ization was backing the fight, consider
ing the demands reasonable, and that
the demands would be enforced by
modest efforts and not in any way to
injure the Raleigh public. He added
that there were funds back of the
movement, and that if the strike con-
tinued long he would transfer the car
penters to other cities for work.
The encampment Of he Third regl-
ment at Chicamaugua will be for s
days. The United States government
pays for this with its W paymasters
and not through state officials. the
state having nothing to do with the
matter except to send the troops there
J.. G. DeRoulhac Hamilton is now at
work filing all the executive CORES
pondence by administrations in regu-
lar filing cases There have been tho'ls-
ands of these letters in the governors
Office tied up in bundles without re-
gard to arrangement. Some extremely
valuable letters have been found.
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