El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-31
Plaster Contractors Com
plain of a Lack
of Men.

! (By J. w. Harm, StereOtypers' UniOnO
W YORK in various building trade
! w crafts of Ell Paso is improving.
! W Local plaster contractors are
| complaining that they are unable to get
! men enough to complete jobs on Sched-
| ule time and that many jobs are being
worked .'shorthanded." Members of Ibe
! Sheet Metal Workers union report all
men busy. FL Paso carpenters report
! work good and bricklayers say most
of their craft are working. Various
| building jobs about the city are being
I pushed forward as fast as possible,
I though in many cases contractors are
| forced to work without full qOuta of
plasterers-
The Sheet Metal Workers union held
its regular weekly meeting Thursday
night at the Building Trades hall. Rou-
tine business was transacted Sam
Baynes, president, presided George
Peckham acted as secretary in the abb
| sence of c. W. Scott. The meeting was
well attended.
Electrical Workers union. No 5S3.
will hold its regular weekly meeting
tonight at the Central Labor hall J. H
JacOby, president, will call the meet
ing to order. J. T. Bippus is the secre-
tary.
J. R. Shacklee, acting president of
Electrical Workers union, No. SIS, will
call the regular weekly meeting of that
body to order tonight at the Central
Labor hall at 1880. W. c. Allen is sec
rotary.
G P. Wakefield, an employe of the
Poodle Dog barber shop, is laying off
for a few days on account of illness in
his family. He is a member of the Bar
berS' union
W. Sargent, who recently broke his
arm, has departed with his wife to
spend months vacation with his folks
in Kentucky. He is a member of the
BARRIERS union and employed at the
Depot barber shop.
G. A. Halling has returned from a
hunting. trip down the valley. He found
game plentiful and has been unable to
work for the past four days because of
fatigue from strenuous hunting.
The carpenter work at the Given
shoe store on South Ell Paso street is
being done by the following members
OF the Carpenters union: J. C. Prichard,
K 3. Behmes and W. B. Points and are
employed by Prichard & Cunning com
pany.
Harry Brettler, foreman, E. F. West,
R Childress, Ben Angel and w c.
league are doing the carpenter work
on the new tenement house on South
FL PaSO street These men are MEM
berS of the Carpenters union.
Frank Bolton, Ed Mengelt and E G
Hignett have begun the carpenter work
eminent Hill for contractor J. c. Neff.
These men are members of the Carpen-
ters' union
J. B Philips, foreman: Jack LasIey,
J. E. Geiger and F. Heffler are doing
the carpenter work on the new five
room bungalow being built in Govern
ment Hill by contractor J. I. Hewitt &
Son for Austin & Mari These men are
members of the Carpenters union.
The carpenter work on the new two
story residence being built at the cor
ner of Elm and Copper streets. in
Manhattan Heights, is being done by
r. E Mcclellan, foreman; Miles Rom
ney and Z. S Hawkins. These men
are members of the Carpenters union
and are employed by J. z. Bischoff.
A. F. Lee is assisting in the carpenter
work on the remodling of the residence
in the 200 block East Boulevard He is
a member of the Carpenters union and
employed by Lee Bros. e.
Art Terrell, who has been on the sick
list for the last few days, has a posi-
ton doing carpenter work on the old
jenkins store, corner Texas and Stan
ton streets. He is employed by Hewitt :
< Son and is member of the Carpen-
ters' union
Herbert Brown, business manager Of !
the Carpenters union, has received a
letter from W. W. Elder, formerly a
member of the local Carpenters union, !
who departed two months ago for |
Springfield, No, where he has a posi- I
ton, saying that he is progressing nice !
" but that he misses the Ell PaSO eli /
mate and may return here
Lee Pollard has completed the pan !
cling work on the bookcases at the /
home of architect E. Krause in High /
land Park. He is member of the /
Carpenters union and is employed by /
contractor H. Crawford.
". o. Womsley has been removed /
from the Providence hospital, where I
he was operated on recently for ap- /
pendicitis. to his home, corner Florence /
and Overland street. He is a member I
of the Carpenters union.
The remodeling work on the Princess
theater is being done by oscar Pick !
ering, 7 Sanford and ". Chester These !
men are members of the Carpenters /
union and employed by J. L Hewitt *
Son.
p y E Krack, who has been doing /
fol On hn T1n
annex at Fort Bliss. has been recalled
from the job to install heating plant IN
the new five-room bungalow on Mesa
avenue He is employed by the H
Welsch company and is a member of
the Sheet Metal Workers union
A. NJ. Keller began repair work
Thursday on the blow pipes at the
Globe Mills He is a member of the
Sheet Metal Workers union and is en-
ployed by II. Welsch company
G. G. O'Rear has begun installation |
of the ventilation system on the new
First National bank building He is
em9loyed BIZ the Gus Momsen company