Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-15

ask you to give up your job either to ioin
them or to leave the city1
DO you think the cause of good union
ism or Of the honest, right thinking work
men Is advanced by unions which break
rain and try to substitute might for right :?
Are you taking the bread out of any
man NOUN who is receiving strike bene-
nts to walk the streets and persuade YOU
not to work, when his only reason for
not working Is that he will not work on
the same Joo with non-union men like you,
ana when ne can go to work in an open
shop himself if he chooses?
"The Right to Work"
What exclusive right to labor has
man because he belongs to a union-have
you not as much right to work as he?
Think over these things and others that
may occur to you and decide IL there lie
any reason why you should not remain In
Washington with a clear conscience as an
independent workman.
II you are annoyed or troubled in any
way, please report 1t at once to our office
Whenever you are out of work, call at our
employment bureau and register-we make
no charge"
The foregoing pamphlet is signed by the
employers Association of Building
Trades Of the District of Columbia"
The officers OF the Employers Associa-
ton also announce that Mr.. Isadore
Freund, master plumber, is conducting an
Notwithstanding. He Is said to be a recent
accession to the Master Plumbers Associa-
ton. 1t was also limited that certain union
plumbers are allowed to work for certain
unionists.
Secretary Hall said work would be re-
sumed on the struck buildings of Messrs
Mooney and Gilbert Austin tomorrow morn
men.
Another officer Of the association of en-
ployers declared that the point will soon
be reached where we can pay off the union
mechanics. discharge them and hire nom
unlonists in their places"
Union Workmen "Pulled."
OTHERS of the Bricklayers' Union yester-
day. 1t is said, pulled off nine Of their
fellow-craftsmen who were employed by
Contractor Hughes on several buildings.
Strikes were called Friday by the griev-
ance committee of the Building Trades
Council on several structures being erected
by the w. E. Mooney Construction Com
pany. The buildings affected were a school,
house on Jefferson street, Anacostia, D. c..
and houses on 31st street between NJ and
n streets and on p street between 17th
and 18th streets. The number of me-
chanics called out was given as between
sixteen and eighteen.
Several international officers Of the build
ing trades unions are expected in the city
during the coming week. Joe Reilly or
ganizer of the Brotherhood of Carpenters;
John Alpine. intern ational president of the
Plumbers Union of Boston, who will take
the place of Vice President John Love- who
has represented the plumbers in the strike,
and H. w. Potter of Philadelphia the dis
trict president of the Electrical Workers
Union, are expected to arrive today or to-
morrow.
Announcement is made that members of
Local No. 400 Paperhangers' Union, are
to receive an increase of 80 cents per day
in their wages, beginning Monday. This an
nouncement was made at the regular meet
ing of the union held at st. Joseph's Hall
Friday night.
1t was said that the fifty-sx master
paperhangers of the District, without an
exception, agreed to the increase. The
wages were raised from $3.50 to 81 per
day.