The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-02-16
PACIFIC COAST LABOR
STILL ON ACTIVE LIST
Bricklayers and Masons OF
Washington Hold Confer
ence to. Promote Trade.
Strike Threatened on Spokane
Street Railway Lines Man.
ager Denies Rumors.

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SPOKANE, Wash. Feb. 14.-The
Washington State Conference of the
Bricklayers' and Mason's international
union recently organized at a meeting
Of delegates from Spokane, Seattle,
Tacoma, Everett and Bellingham an
nounces the following as the objects
Of the association:
To establish and maintain a uniform
| workday throughout the state.
That the minimum scale for eight
hours shall be IS.
To facilitate the organization Of sub
ordinate unions in smaller cities and
towns, and to Undue more life and en-
! thusiasm into those unions already es-
tablished
To regulate and equalize the ap-
premiership laws
To act as a medium of arbitration.
To procure state legislation favor
able to our craft as we'll as other Or
gained labor.
To encourage a uniform imitation
| fee.
To keep the several unions through
out the state in close touch one with
another and to furnish information re-
garding employment and movements of
non union men and unfair firms.
The conference is to hold session
| each year, and each union will be en-
titled to two delegates for the first so
members or fraction thereof, and an
addition Of 50 members or major frac-
| ton thereof.
Motor Men May Strike.
Henry NJ. Richards, president of the
Washington Water Power company, on
| whose electric lines strike was
| threatened, gave out this statement a
few days ago:
up to the present time the COM
| pany has not questioned the right of
any employe to belong to any union or
other organization, that does not inter-
fere with the service for which he was
| employed, and all statements. to :: the
contrary: Notwithstanding, no man has
been discharged: by this company for
! the sole reason that he belonged to a
union or other organization.
| There is no difference regarding the
scale Of prices or the hours of work
which are as favorable as in any city
in the Pacific Northwest The general
personnel Of our men is a matter OF
pride to us, and they are frequently
complimented by visitors to Spokane
We have men who have been In the
employ Of the company up to periods
of Is years; and their loyalty. skill and
integrity eht1tle them the the respect
and good will OF their employers anG
the public at large, and they have 1t
But on the account of unsatisfactory
service by some carmen, it became
necessary to discharge some Of them.
Electrical Workers Want Increase.
/ Having obtained the sanction of thu
International union and the loca
structural building trades alliance, thu
Spokane electrical workers union ha!
formally notified employing contract.
ors of inside electrical workers tina
the scale Of the union will be advanced
May 1, the employers thus being givet
three months time to close up existing
contracts and to figure on new work
This will provide Tor an increase OF 3
a day for toufneyman, a raise Of 81
cents a day for f1rst-class apprentices
and a reduction in the number Of help
ers. Under the present agreemen
there is one helper FOR each journey
man, while under the revised scale onl,
} one helper will be apportioned t
three journeymen. Overtime will b
: paid for a time and one-half for al
work until 10 p. M. after which a dou
bic time will be charged. Double tim
will also be charged on legal holiday
}, and Sundays.
Woodsn,en to Organize.
Fifty thousand sawmill workers an
woodsmen employed in the state q
Washington will be organized this yea
If the plans OF the washington Stat
Federation Of Labor work out. TIL
men submitted requests at the annus
meeting OF the Federation to be or
ganized into unions, and canvasser
will be sent into the various camps i
a short time to begin the preliminar
work. This will be the first organiza
, lions of their kind In the Northwes
II not on the continent, and an effo1
J Will be made to extend the work to tn
| rest OF the Pacific states.
5000 Unionists In Spokane.
Central Labor Unions OF Spokan
report that Tor the last quarter the pc
, capita tax has been paid by affiliate
I unions on 2,943 members, the highes
. number yet reached In the history {