Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-06
SETTLED.
The Misunderstanding in the Co-opera-
tive Union.

tive Union.
The misunderstanding in the Co
operative Laborers' Union was satisfac-
torily settled yesterday and work was
resumed on the sewer. The following
communication was sent to the HERALD
with reference to the matter:
EDITORS HERALD-In your issue OF the
9TH inst. see both an editorial and an
article regarding the Laborers' Co-opera-
tive Construction Company, which may
do great deal of harm if allowed to
pass unchallenged. therefore request
that you will kindly allow me to reply,
and l trust you will give my reply the
same prominence which the attack has
had in your columns. The article is
headed "Struck Work." and am happy
to say that so far from having ''struck
work" the boys are not only working
with, if possible, more vim, but are de-
termined to carry the work through !;
and they are doing the work in such a
thorough manner that the city engineer
and his deputies are perfectly satisfied
with it.
In the article it says: "Since that
time bids have been sent in by the as
sociation for every contract that has been
to let. The bids have been sent in by
two members of the association in their
own names as representatives of the Co.
operative Company" Now this is a
mistake, as every bid except the first
has been put in in the name of the COM
pany and the only reason the first bid
was not so put in, was that the company
was not then in existence.
From the tone of your article anyone,
not acquainted with the circumstances
of the case, would be led to infer that
the two gentlemen, who had put in the
bids for the company, were now trying to
dead beat" both the city and the
company; and, as l am one of tht Sc
gentlemen, l must in justice to myself
state that every step which | have taken
in this matter has been perfectly
open and above board, and that
| have always expressed my perfect
willingness to transfer, and have, as far
as | could, already transferred all my
interest in the contract over to the COM
pany, for whose benefit | originally took
it up. Owing, however, to the other
gentleman not having full knowledge
OF the English language, and from his
unfortunately having had personal
misunderstanding with some members of
the company, he seems to have looked
upon the demand, that the contract be
transferred to the company, as an at
tempt to ''beat" him out of it and pos
sibly 'bounce" him out of the company,
too. But upon matters being explained
to him, he assigned the first demand for
payment over to the company, and will
now, l believe, transfer the contract
itself.
In further justice to myself, I will
state that certain parties, who for their
own reasons have been most antagonis-
tic to me personally ever since the for
nation OF our company, have intention
ally persisted in making it appear that l
was refusing to formally transfer my in
terest in the contract over to the COM
pany, when they well know that l have
always signifed my willingness to do so,
and have at all times done everything in
my power to complete the transfer.
On behalf of the Los Angeles Co
operative Construction Company and
myself, remain, respectfully yours.
JOHN R. HUNTER.
Endorsed by the trustees and secretary
of the Laborers' Cooperative Construc-
ton Company.
c. M. WHITNEY, Secretary.
WM. II. CARTER,
j. B. RAMSEY,
H. E. WHITFoRD,
Trustees.