The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-12
NEW MOVEMENT IN TINNERS' STRIKE Plumbers Association and Outside Firms Take Steps to Clear Up Work in
 Hand.
OUTLOOK BRIGHT
 FOR CUSTOMERS
Masters Desire to Install Sliding Scale But Men Hold Out for Mini
 mum Wage.

As far as the effect of the strike of the citys metal workers upon the GUS toners work is concerned, the outlook
 is much brighter, but the deadlock be- tween the masters and men remains tight as ever with no prospect of a compromise. The fight has developed into a battle for principle, the differ ence between what the men demand and the masters offer being only matter of 25 cents per day.
 As reported in yesterdays Journal Courier the opening up of the new shop at 529 State street by o. M. Edg- serly, for ten years bookkeeper with w. < A, T. Smith, and his partner, Q. Volo- 6shen, capable journeyman, has re- flieved the situation considerably. Here four timers are employed and accord- { ing to the jobbing- plumbers the firm appears to be doing large business. In addition to this firm there are in
 West Haven, the Godfrey Go. and the < Hull Go. who have acceded to the de- tmands of the men for $3.50 wage for eight hours work and a limiting of the Anumber of apprentices to one for ev- gery three journeymen. The strikers sclaim that there are also two flair" shops in Fair Haven, that is, those athat have agreed to the union schedule. 4 It was given out last night by the strikers committee that 42 of the 107 linen who went out on strike Oct. 1 shave secured positions. Some have gone to Bridgeport, Stamford and Springfield where the men say higher wages are paid than in New Haven, and the balance are located here.
 The strikers say that those men with families are paid by the local union, affiliated with the National Building Trades council, sto per week, while the single men are paid ST per week from the treasury They also say that mot more than ten men are at work flor the master plumbers, statement (which the masters committee would Snot deny.
 { Tn an interview last evening o. M. sEdgerly gave it as his opinion, drawn, he said, from ten years work along side the journeymen. that the timers
 are worth the $350 wage demanded. which he is now paying.
 He also stated that the work is more
 difficult and reuires greater skill than that of the plumbers and steam filters, whose minimum wage is $3.5o for an leight-hour day.
 [ On the other haid A. H Buckingham. president of the Master Plumbers asso- ciation, who employs twelve timers, tho largest number of any single mas Ter in the city, and who now has but ,pne man at work when asked wheth- er the offer of $325 is now withdrawn, declared that 1t Is the desire of his association to install the sliding scale, hhus paying each man according to his ability rather than to establish a min- Amum wage of any specified amount. Some of his men, he states, were paid sS, $3.25 $3.50 $3.75 and $4, and that D minimum of $325 is all the masters
 Feel they can afford
 Several days ago the masters secur- ed some thirty men through a New York agency, which claimed that the .men were competent timers. This proved to be fallacy, however, as ac- eordlng to rumors the men were Ital- Bans of the comman or garden variety. not one in ten being able to speak a sword of English, much less being mas kers of the intricacies of metal work ing It is said that the men were re- kained but two days.
 After such an outcome the masters began advertising in the papers in New England, also in Boston and New York pity. In the New York World MT. Buckingham made an offer of $325 up For capable journeymen. MT. Bucking ham himself was in New York yester- day looking into the matter further and Reported on his return that results may be expected at once,
 As to the attitude of the two con- kestants both maintain the position
 first taken, and there is no reason to believe that there will be much change In the status tor some time to come.