The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-29
''No Card, No Work' To Be Slogan on Structural Jobs Throughout Bridgeport Masons, Plumbers, Car penters, Lathers and 9th CTS Have Iron-Bound Agreements With Bosses.
Bridgeport Transformed in One Year from Non Union to Strong Union City Girl Workers Get Shorter Hours and More Pay Eight Hour Day Now Established.

s@ -AANRy D4J VI AOAO WILL SCC Bridgeport a union city.
 A tremendous change has been wrought in labor co1di- lions in Bridgeport since May f, 1915, and from non-union community, with long hours, poor wages and poor working conditions, the city emerged to a community of the eight hour day, good wages and better. working conditions.
 May Day will see thel estab- lishment in Bridgeport Of the Closed Shop. On and after that date, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, fathers and others who have strdng unions will refuse to work on structural, jobs with nen-union men.
 cwa, no work, y will be. the sloganA The hiring of. a non-union plumber. will make a union carpenter on the job quit and vice versa So strong are the organizations that the unionizatiqh of practically all jobs in Bridgeport will be ,acz compIfshed-.
 All these craftsmen have completed agreements with their employers for better. wages and better conditions, to go into effect in May.
 The Building Trades council to which these tradesrnen belong sent a form letter to the employers Feb 2S, demanding these things and most of the more important employers signed the agreement
 The BTdGldazers, 1IaSons' & Plaster erg union has just announced a vic tory- Starting May Day. all the biz contractors win grant S5 cents an hour instead of 50 cents an hour
 As with the Strzctura1 workers, so It is in the factories. Unions have Eations came 6rst, then demands, and better conditions resulted.
 Machfn1sts and others in the facto- T1eS are getting the eight hour day al- who have always had to work hard for little pay, are now working shorter hours and getting fafrer wages.
 The transformation since last May [, of Bridgeport from a non-union to a union city has brought here hun dreds of skilled workers. Many have settled here with their families and have become very desirable additions to the community.
 >The United Brotherhood of Car penters' and Joiners' organization in Bridgeport has virtually doubled it's membership. according to Business Agent Martin Kane. There are now 1,500 members in the three locals of which Local l115 has HOO members Locals 1913 and 1520 are the other bodies.
 ''Condft1ons are much improved since May l. 1915.s said Business l Agent Kane today. We have signed | an agreement for one year with most i of the important carpenters in town, | to go into effect May 15, A raise in | pay from $s.75 to $4.25 has been ob- tafned." the outlook is excellent" said William | F. Steele, business agent of Local 173, Plunbers and Steamdtters. Last May the men were receiving $21 a l week. Beginning this@rIay 1 they will receive SPA a week.
 The plumbers and steamf1itters have about 190 members in their union. The | steamftters' helpers nave been organ ized in the last year and 24 members are in the new organization. The union at large has increased 100 mem bers here.
 A five year agreement between the workers and the master plumbers will go into effect May 1. The closed shop as guaranteed. Double time will be paid for all overtime work, a distinct Improvement over the arrangement hitherto. According to union men, all the principal master plumbers have signed the agreement.
 A three year agreement has been effected by the Brotherhood of Pain ters & Decorators & Paper Hangers Local. An increase of five cents an hour will be in effect May l.
 The organization has Increased about 100 members in a year. There
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