The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-12
PLUMBERS STRIKE
CASE IS ON TRIAL
Non-Uni0n Men Describe AL
legged Treatment Upon Ar
irving in Salt Lake.
NO TROUBLE RECENTLY
MASTERS AND MEN SAY INJUNc-
TON STOPPED THREATS.

against me, but one union man. think
it was Walsh. told me they would car
ry me out of town in a coffin If didn't
get out at once" said J. s. Katerowitz,
a non-union plumber, who refused to
strike last July when the union plumb
ers of Salt Lake went out
IhlS statement was made in the in
Junction suit brought by the Will Rees
Plumbtng company and other master
plumbers against members of local No
10, journeymen plumbers, who struck
Tor an Increase from $500 to Sc day
| Tor their work on June Is last. The
suit is being heard before Judge NJ. L.
Richie of the district court, in which
/ the master plumbers seek to enjoin
members of the union from interfering
with the strike-breakers who were
brought to Salt Lake on July 20 and at
| other times. A temporary injunction
was issued against the union men on
Aug. which VIII continue until final
! action is taken in the present case.
katerowitz was one of the most in
teresting of the several non-unon men
who were on the stand yesterday. He
said he refused to join the union and
continued to work after the strike,
though some of the union men came to
him and told him there would be trou-
bic. He saw one nOn-uniOn man with
a split lip and a badly spoiled face, and
told union carpenter who was work
ing near him on the Vermont building
that he would quit the job If there was
going to be any trouble like that. But
Katerowitz escaped any beatings.
Says He Was Jeered.
F. W. Cook % years old, was brought
to Salt Lake from Cleveland, o., with
several other plumbers to break the
strike here. He said he was brought
by c. A. Higson and reached the city
on July %. He was the last man off
the train, and AYERS he was greeted,
like the others, with jeers. He said he
was kicked by some one. He stuck with
HigSOn & ROssiteT, however and was
protected by them, he said. Cook said
ne was never really interfered with ex-
cept once in a restaurant, and another /
time when Jimmie Clark grabbed him
by the shoulder at Third South and |
state streets, while he was going to !
work, and threatened to beat him up. 4
He said he never had any trouble with |
other members of the union. While |
working in the basement of the Lincoln |
house, on First South street, he said /
some pieces Of mortar and bricks had a /
tendency to come his way from an ad- I
joining roof every time he went near /
the window. So he kept away.
w. H. King, attorney for the striking (
plumbers. asked Cook how many In
terviews he had had with Jimmie Clark,
a union man.
Il had only one interview, but |
there's going to be more" said Cook.
That fellow has threatened me
enough"
Fred Crowton, a pipe filters helper,
said union men had tried to get him 10 /
quit, and came to see him several times
while he was working with his father |
in the Wasatch school building. Par
ley. Burt, walking delegate for the
union, was one of them, but he said |
they never did or said anything violent /
Crowton said that Edward Brooks. an /
apprentice. who went out with the /
union men, had menaced him when |
witness said he intended to keep on /
working.
Gets Ready to Fight.
He started to take off his coat"
said Crowton, but when l took mine
off he changed his mind He said ne
was going to beat me up, but l guess he
didn't want to try"
Albert Licker, another recruit from
Cleveland, employed by the VIII Rees
company, said the union men had him
scared bad" with their talk while he
was working on a double house near
They told him, he said, that he would
be shipped out of town If he did not
get out peacefully. He said threats
were made against him several times
F. c. Carthey and C. A. Higson were
the first two witnesses on the stand
and told of the troubles their men had
gone through in the early days of the
strike. 1t was generally admitted
however, that there had been no trou-
bic since the issuance of the tempo
rary injunction on Aug. s.
Morris Winesberger w. F. Albright
w. S. Higham and Roy Spencer. wert
also called for the master plumbers.
All are strike-breakers, and told of
threats made against them before tbs
injunction was issued. In all of tn,
testimony Jack Walsh and a plumbe
named "Scotty" were mentioned fire.
4uentiy.
The master plumbers will finish thei
evidence this morning, when the jour
leymen union men, now on strike, wi
nave their inning. The case will prob
ably continue all of today and part
tomorrow before a conclusion is reached 4
and the matter is submitted to Judge
Richie.