The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-04-18
STATEMENT FROM THE
CARPENTERS UNION

Two articles have recently APP
peared IN the Evening Telegram
touching or dealing with the pres
eht difficulties existing between the
arpenters union and certain con
tractors of this city.
One of the above referred to ar
llcies IS rich reading to one behind
the curtain, which the writer would
set forth consistently
I Now the public should fully I'M
derStand and be free to Judge be-
tween man and man as to who is ana
VINO Is not consistent. The public
VIII possibly lie surprised 10 know
that both Of the men who comprise
the Old reliable firm Of Marshall &
sanders We're once active members
OF this same union that they now
seem 70 disregarl
Whom they were mcmhcrs Of the
union they left a record that has not
"'en IorAot.rn rs to their actions.
Iha H.on so,ao siN years AGO adopt
ga fho cj@hl-Aour day and Mr.. Mar
shall WIS one Of the leading men to
advocate The chan4e from the nine
hour ia the eight hour day.
Now aontle readers, we don't ask
Won 70 take our statement, ask Mr..
J / Marshall If he viii acknowl-
edge these facts
You can get The above facts Us
intorro2atine Mr.. Alonzo Logan.
Who at that time had Mr.. Marshall
employed
II seems 10 us the eight hours now
is certainly consistent with the eight
hours some few years ago when Mr..
Marhall 4 Sanders were driving
nails and pushing the plane. Now,
Mir. Reader, it is not our aim just
now to discuss the hours that we
should work each day, hut to notice
the high point or two in the long
Windcd article in the Evening Tclc-
gram OF the 10th inst, over the sig
nature of Marshall & Sanders; we are
not done displaying our consistency,
yet we have several times been I'M
able to approve their actions as con-
tractors.
We regret that we are forced by
the statement of the 10th to mention
SOME of the past remarks of Mr..
Sanders, which were proclaimed in
the union meeting when the above
gentleman was a member, which was
that he would see his wife and chill
dren beg bread or go hungry rather
than go on scaffold with a SCAB,
or give one employment.
Now, friends, will you look Mr..
Sanders up and then just calmly de-
eide for yourself who has the spirit
of consistency. Has the union
changed? No, not in the least; then
decide where the change is.
Then again they plead for fair
ness; please turn to their statement
and see how it reads and the natural
construction thereof, that the work
was completed week beforehand by
non-union men, when some ten days
after YOU still say it would be un-
finished Now to have been anyway
fair you should have told how many
men YOU had working, for the nat
ural conclusion Of the readers would
be that YOU had the same number OF
men before the trouble that you had
after the confusion. Now, Mr.. Mar
shall did you intend to say that; If
not, you ought to explain.
We do not want to take unneces-
sary time or TOO much space in the
paper but we are open for conVic-
ton and if Marshall & Sanders can
show us why the eight-hour day
was an honest days work when they
were common carpenters. why 1t be
comes necessary to change to the
nine-hour day for honest work since
they have become contractors we
will accept their solution of the
trouble and be thankful for the
anne
In regards to the two nonunion
as per their article, he