The Chicago Lock-out

ARBITRATIOX LAÜGHED AT. Chicago, June 3. - Tho master masons bave issued an address to the workinan, calling them to end the labor troubles for the sake of the city. They express a desire for arbitration, but insist that tho ■"walking delégate" shall go. The working rules recently adopted by them will be subject to discussion and adjustment as soon as a joint committsro of arbitration .shall be chosen. They agree to make nine hours aday'swork, and have voluntarüy adopted the Saturday half-holiday. Their agreement to pay forty-flve cents an hour proves, they claim, that they do not desire to lower ratos of wages. A regular fortnightly pay-day has also been agreed upon. These are their conditions, and they invite fair discussion of them. The appeal of the master masons is laughed at by the leaders of the strikers. "Not one union man will leavo our ranks on account of that letter, " said President Vorkeller. "We will not yield a point, unless the master masons surrender." The Master Carpenters' Association at its meeting last night adopted the ninehour system. The Amalgamated Building Trades Council held a meeting Thursday night to discuss the advisability of issuing a cali for a National convention of Building Trades Unions at which a National organization might be effected. A committee was appointed to draft an address to all Building TraJes Unions in the United States requesting them to send delegates to the convention. This city was chosen as the place for the convention, and June 20 ñxed as tho date. The master masons show no signs of waveringand claim to be in a position to hold out for an indefinite period. Comparatively few bricklayers have as yet answered the alvertising sent out by the master masons. Many of tho masons place little relianee upon outside help and claim that they depend almost entirely upon drawing men from the union. Chicago, June 5. - A number of contractors and building material dealers, met with the Executivo Committee of the bricklavers Friday. The contractors made the following propositions: "All bricklayers shall go to work under the old conditions, and the pay-day question shall be subject to arbitration ; or, in case the proposition does not suit the bricklayers, work shall be resumed under the old conditions that existed before the commencement of the strike, pay day on Saturday, and the question of establishing a nine-hour work-day subject to arbitration." The bricklayers were given to cboose between both propositions, but at a meeting Friday night both propositions were rejected, and it was decided not to go to work before all their demands are granted by the master masons. Chicago, June 7.- P. G. McGuire, the general secretary of the Carpenters' Brotherhood of the United States and Canada, was tha principal speaker at a large meeting of carpenters in Twelfth Street Turner hall last night The hall was crowded. He advlses the carpenters n&t to accept the propositions of the Master Carpenters' Association for nine hours' work. If they would stand for eight hours, Chicago would be the battle-ground, and they would be bacfced up by the carpenters all ver ïhe United States. At present the membership of the brotherhood in the United States is 41,000, and ithas 293 local unions. In 152 cities the hours of labor wero reduced during the last year, and this sermred work for over 7,000 carpenters and brought about a raise in wages, plao ing the sum of over $12,200 more a week in the hands of working-men. Seventeen thousand dollars was paid out to families of dead members and 8-3.0J0 in sick benefits. Kesolutions were adopted pledging the union carpenters to stand by the eighthour system.