Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-10
TRADES COUNCIL.
IMPORTANT MEETING OF THAT
 BODY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
The Legislative Committee Reported That All Bills Referred to It Were
 Ready for Submission

Birmingham Trades Council held reg ular meeting in their new headquarters in the Fox building, Fourth avenue and Nineteenth street, yesterday afternoon. In the absence of the president, Vice President J. J. Pagan presided Secre- tary Moseley was at the desk. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
 The secretary read communication from the president of the American Fed era ton of Labor, in reference to the six teenth annual convention, which is called to meet in Cincinnati Dec. IA. Harry l.. White, delegate from the Clerks Benevo- lent and Protective association, is the Birmingham Trades Councils delegate to the convention.
 The secretary also ready a communica- ton from the Pork Butchers union, or Kansas City, in reference to boycott which they have instituted in that city:
 The legislative committee through us chairman, w. H. Stanley, reported that all the bills referred to the committee for preparation for presentation to the gen. eral assembly, in which the council was interested were ready and would be look ed after at the proper time. MT. Stanley also reported that Hon. J. J. Altman had informed the committee that two Of the most important matters, the tWo-WeekS' pay and anti commissary bills, had been prepared by him and would be presented for action by the assembly, thus making 1t unnecessary for the committee to pre- pare same.
 The report of the committee was read and approved.
 Delegate G. Mathis of the Plasters' union, was appointed assistant to Deie- gate G. E. Harrison, chairman or the grievance committee.
 A disagreement among the Journeymen Plumbers was brought before the council It was stated that the master plumbers of this city, with one exception, had or ganzed federation and entered into a. compact with the union plumbers to em- ploy only members of that organization. The federation, however, required Of the union that members of that organization should not work for any one unless He was a member of their body. The hrm which refused to join the federation, IL seems, gave as their reason for not en- tering that body that the body is fed eration of wholesalers. They nave not however employed any save union men, and have paid the scale and furnished plenty of work to union men.
 It was reported that on Saturday af- ternoon the federation called out the union men employed by the firm not Tn their body and the men responded
 After two hours or more Of discusslon of the matter the council reported the whole ma atter to the grievance commit tee With 1nStrucllonS Una liie7 opt,iii M information pertaining thereto and that same be transmitted to higher authorl- ty for final action.
 During the discussion 1t was stated that the firm who refused to enter the federa- tion gave as their principal reason for not entering the body that the federation wished to require of them that they add 15 per cent. to all bids offered by them, said sum to be divided every sixty or ninety days among the master plumbers.
 The men who had been called out were allowed to return to work pending in- vestlgation and final action on the mat ter