The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-06
SUBMIT NATTER
TO ARBITRATION
Master Plumbers Make This
Suggestion to Journeymen
Now OH Strike
MEETING HELD YESTERDAY
Employers Declare That New
Proposition Is Separate From
Recent Agreemciu..

About thirty journeyinen plumbers and
pipe-ftters employed by six shops are on
strike, local union No. 10 having called
out all its men as q result of the re-
fusal of the masters to sign an agree
ment to discharge all non-union en-
ployes
The question of the open or closed
shop was not taken up by the board of
arbiters which recently considered tile
strike of the journeymen plumbers, and
which gave a decision in February fixing
wages hours etc. The action of the
arbiters seems to have been accepted in
good faith by the employers, who have
since been paying the scale agreed upon.
Mr. u. G. Howles, of heaunion COM
mittee, declares that the plumbers agreed
to go back to work with non union men
pending the decision of the arbiters This
decision has been rendered and the union
men claim that the employers should now
discharge those not members of any
union,
Letter to Union.
The employers, however, take the
ground that the action of the arbiters
does not require the discharge of nom
union men. and they have offered TO sub
nit the question to the same board of
arbitersMr. Joseph Bryan, Mr.. w. j.
Griggs and Judge w. j. Leake The fol-
lowing Litter was sent yesterday to local
union No. 10 by the employing plumbers
whose shops have been affected:
Richmond Va. Mar. 3, 1907.
AT meeting held this afternoon.
the Undersigned master plumbers
adopted the following:
Whereas, we. the undersigned
employing plumbers wish to say
that we accepted the findings of
the board of arbitration, as Febru-
ruary 81. 1907, and as evidence
of good faith the majority of the
master plumbers paid on March
LIST the scale of wage set forth
in the arbitration. and are willing
to abide by the decision set forth
in the report.
And now the members of Local
No 10 refuse 10 accept the same
without Il supplementary clause
viz, that we sign an agreement
to get rid or discharge those In
our employ who are not members
of u. A.
Now that all matters were re-
fcrred to arbitration, as agreed
by the committee representing the
master plumbers and Local NO. ~.
we suggest that this matter be re-
ferred to the same gentlemen, act
ing as arbitration, and we agree
to act according to the finding OF
the majority of the arbitrators.
lSigned)
Mahoney & weisiger, j. Z. Phil
lips & Son. j. f. Rose g. Co., ). H.
Rose & Co, Southern Plumbing y
l,lec. Co.. Virginia Plumbing u
Heating Co.
The master plumbers state that they
/ issue this statement only In order TO
place themselves in a true light before .l
tha pubic. They say further that they
believe their position TO be Just TO
! those they have employed and claim
+, that If they We're to sign the letter
! submitted. which is separate from t1s
1 finding OF the arbiters, it would prac-
| tieally mean the waving of all theil
| rights in their own shops,
| There are a number Of plumbing
] shops in the city that employ only
lon-rnion men, and which are not at
fected by the present difficulty.
1 Though the shops affected have 6
\ number CT important contracts, they
4 all contain strike clauses, and the en-
| ployerS Go not anticipate any difficulty
1 in completing the work on hand.