The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26
CONTRACTOR. SIGNS
UNION WAGE SCALE
More Are Willing to Come
In, Strikers
Say.

Turning back nonunion workmen from
the gates Of the city was the principal
work done today by the striking build
ing trades.
They have organized and are now
keeping on continual duty what is
thought to be the finest system OF
pickets ever developed In the District
Of Columbia. At the two railroad sta
tons, at the steamboat wharves, and at
Laurel, Nd, the building trades have
their men stationed, not In twos or
threes, but In half dozens and dozens.
These pickets, with the help given by
the union pickets in all the neighborIng
big cities. are in reality doing much
toward keeping nonunion workers of
the Jobs here that have been pulled"
Another Contractor Signs.
At the headquarters of the building
trades there was Jubilation today. The
contractors are coming round TO Us
every day" was the statement given
out this morning. we have here
paper on which the ink is scarcely dry.
IL is an agreement signed by one OF the
local contractors 10 adopt the union
= scale, with union men on his jobs. Sew
/ eral more have either signed or signi-
/ fed their willingness to sign. These are
( IN addition 10 the big contractor We
| landed last week"
A request for the names OF the local
/ contractors who have come over to the
/ union side was met with a refusal. how
/ ever, on the ground that the names
could not be given out until the official
/ body has voted on them This Is being
l done IN a session this afternoon in the
I building trades Headquarters in the
/ Home Life building, at Fifth and G
| streets.
Work Going On, Builders Say.
As opposed to the jubilance Of the
/ building trades is the phIegmatic per
sistence found III the headquarters Of
1 the Master Builders Association, at
/ Fourteenth and G streets There Sec
/ rotary Hail said:
/ IAN this strike is theory rather
than an actual fact Our jobs are going
/ on ali right. We are getting worlluen
/ Tor them and good workmen at that
! W hats more, the workmen we have
/ brought into the city are working"
/ There IS marked diversity between
J the statements made In the two CAMPS
about the arrival here yesterday Oh
/ some non-uniOn men for Contractor Cas-
/ Sldy. At the headquarters of the build
/ ing trades Ii was said:
/ Thirteen Of those men arrived We
1 turned back twelve Of them and would
| have gotten the thirteenth IL he hadn' {
run away We're glad ne did run. If
]
/ been a hOodoo."
Mr.. Hal. OF the Master Builders AS
/ ISOLATION said:
There were eleven of those men
/ We got six for the jobs, and the union
/ men turned back five"
At Mr. Cassidy's offices It was claimed
/ that all of the thirteen are now in the
city ready TO go to work, one having
/ already begun work today 1t was
/ claimed that Mr.. Cassidy sent for the
1 men for other people, as he did not need
I them himself. 1t was further stated
/ that while the Cassidy concern had
/ thirty men working on the Elks building
/ before the strike, it now has foTty-fiVe
I men there. and "all of them putting up
Z the very best class Of work"
II Is probable that the meeting Of The
/ building trades this afternoon will de-
/ eide whether they shall enter into a
| crusade to cripple building by pulling
/ every antagOnisttc contractors Jobs, or
/ shall cOnfine themselves to keeping nom
/ union men off the jobs and out of the
/ city.