Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-05
Breach in Labor Circles Over the
Beer Boycott.
FEDERATION And KNIGHTS OF LABOR
They Are Opposed by the Building
Trades Union.
ACTION TAKEN LAST NIGHT


trouble which has existed for several weeks
between the master brewers and the MEM
bers of Gambrinus Assembly.
Before adjourning the Building Trades
Council voted to lift the boycott, and the
Federation voted to continue the same
At the meeting of the Federation dele
gates were present from forty-ive orga.ll-
cations, and as usual President James F.
McHugh occupied the chair. Mr.. L. NJ.
Blake, chairman of the legislative COM
mittee, offered the following resolutions,
which We're adopted by a practically unani-
nous VOTE there being but three or four
noes:
Resolved, That committee be appointed
by the Federation of Labor to wait on the
Building Trades Council, to protest in the
name Of the Federation of Labor against
any interference with the efforts Of the
joint committee of d. A. Sc and the Fedora
ton of Labor to effect a settlement with
the master brewers of Washington in the
interest of their locked-out employees.
Resolved That this committee be in
structed to respectfully point out to the
Trades Council that d. A. 6S and the Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor have the exclusive right
to represent the interests of Gambrinus AS
Sembly and the building trades incidental
ly involved in the controversy with the
brewers, as the grievance was first report
ed by Gambrinus Assembly to the two
| recognized central bodies; that the two CEN
products of the local brewers, and that
committees have been appointed to act
jointly in the interest of the two central
bodies in making the boycott effective and
forcing a settlement; that said committees
have conducted the boycott to prove
conclusively that the fight of the master
brewers against organized labor was sui
cidal to their financial interests and would
finally result in a permanent market for
foreign beer in the District Of Columbia;
that this fact was now admitted by the
master brewers and that a settlement sat
isfactory to all interests would speedily be
brought about If the properly constituted
committee were not interfered with through
a seeming want of confidence or the alb
sence of the hearty cooperation Of the
local unions and the central council of the
building trades.
That the committee be further instructed
to represent to the trades council that an
approval Of the report of committee re-
Gently appointed by them, that the boy
colt was ill advised and should not have
been ordered" will be viewed by this body
as discourteous, unwarranted and not true
as to facts That the committee call their
attention to the fact that their body has al
all times received the active and hearty CO.
operation of this body in all matters submit
ted to them through their accredited dele
gates, and through official communication,
and that an interference with the jurisdic
tional rights of the two central bodies will
provoke discord in the now solid ranks Of
organized labor in the District of Columbia,
ana VIII weaken all EFFORTS TO secure recOg-
milton of our rights from our employers.
That the committee request the active CO.
operation of the trades council in rigidly
enforcing the boycott against the saloons
handling the products of the local brewers
until such time as the master brewers of
Washington recognize the right of their
| employees to organize for their mutual as
sistance and protection, and agree to pay a
| just compensation for their labor.
The Committee Acts.
NT,II tl,o
ing as the committee to carry out the pur-
poses of the resolutions: Messrs e. NJ
Blake, Local Assembly No. 2612, chairman;
w. H. Simmons, Timers Assembly; j.
F. Magee, Carpenters Union; William Ma
honey, Plasterers' Assembly; George o.
Cook, Bricklayers Union; W. L. Bailey,
Painters Assembly, and ]. P. McCarty,
Plumbers Union.
The committee at once left the meeting
| and proceeded TO the labor bureau, where
the Building Trades Council was in session,
and during the absence the Federation,
after completing all their routine business,
took recess to await the return of the
committee.
Upon the announcement being made to
the Building Trades Council that a COM
mittee from the Federation desired to be
admitted the consideration of the business
before the council was Immediately sus-
pended, and the committee was admitted
and given a courteous reception and pa
tient hearing. Speeches were made to the
council by several members of the commit
tee explaining the necessity of the main
tenance of the boycott, and after all had
spoken who desired to do SO the committee
retired and returned to the hall of the Fed
Grafton.
The latter body al once reconvened to
hear the report of the committee, and the
chairman stated that the Building Trades
Council had given them hearing, and he
felt confident that the council would stand
by the action of the Federation and ID. A
| G6 in the matter.
LangdOn School.
| Mr. Blake submitted memorial prepared
| and adopted by the legislative committee in
| reference to public school building at
| Langdon. The memorial was also Endorsed
| by the Federation, and the chairman of the
| committee, Mr.. Blake, was requested to
| lay the same before the District committee
| of Congress at his earliest convenience,
which was done by > him today The
memorial is as follows:
40 the President of the United States
Serate: The Federation of Labor of Wash
| ington, D. c., respectfully petitions the Sen
| ate of the United States to appropriate the
| sum of $4,000 for site and building for
| the Langdon public school district.
| ''Langdon embraces in its school district
| Abraham Heights, representing twenty-five
houses, Winthrop Heights, twenty-ope
| houses; East Langdon, twenty-sx houses;
| Langdon Park, thrty-seven houses. All
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| there are eighty-three or more children of
| school age residing within this district
| The present school facilities for this dis
| trict are only sufficient for pupils of the
| first, second and third grades, and the
| school is held in store rooms rented from
| the Langdon Hall Association, a badly con-
| structed building for the purposes of a
| school, and dangerously near the tracks of
| the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. There
| are at present enrolled and attending the
| first grade twenty-three pupils; second
| grade, twelve pupils; third grade fourteen
| pupils. Seventeen older and more advanced
| pupils are now obliged to attend school in
| the city of Washington, while seventeen
| others or more, are unable to attend at all,
| because there are no accommodations for
| them in their own district, and their par
| ents are too poor to incur the expense of
| sending the children to the city schools.
| 1.-The District of Columbia owns an excel
| lent site of an acre of ground near the in
| tersection of Frankfort and 10Th streets, on
| the line dividing Winthrop Heights and
| Langdon Park, and your petitioners urge
| your honorable body to make the appro-
| priation asked for in the Commissioners
| estimates SO to furnish proper educa-
| tional facilities for the residents Of the
| Langdon district
Building Trades Council.
After the committee of the Federation
of Labor had retired from the meeting of
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