The morning times., 1896-07-05
AMONG THE LOCALS,

| The regular weekly meeting oi Carpenters
| Joners and Stairbulders' Union No. i was
| held on last Wednesday evening in tie hail
| OF the Labor Bureua, with President RoicrI
L. Mason in the chair The quarterly IT,
| ports of the Officers were read Shot wing An
| increase IN membership and in finances.
One new member was initiated and two
| applications received. Delegates wer,
| elected TO the Federation of Labor and tc
| the Labor Bureau. The report from the
Labor Bureau was very eDcoura ging and the
| prospects very bright.
Under report of state of trade flatterinc
mention was made of Mr.. j. Earl Wagner
president of the Washington Baseball Club,
Tor the courteous manner in which the CON-
mittee of the union had been received and
Tor the faithful carrying out of the promises
that the work ON the Improvements on the
grounds should be done by strictly union
labor. ON motion a vote of thanks to Mr.
Wagner was unanimously rendered not only
for his fair treatment of the members of the
union. hut for his favorable attitude toward
organized labor in general A copy of the
resolution was ordered To be sent to Mr.
Wagner.
Under the head of good Of the union"
attention was called To the published pro-
ceediDgs of the Building Trades Council
as they appea red in the labor column or
the Sunday Times, particularly that pa rt
relating to the suspension of Carpenters
Union No. l. The article was read and
severely ceDsurc1 as being misleading
erroneous and doing great injustice to
the union. On motion a com.aittee was
appointed to prepare correct statement
of facts and request that The Times pub
lish the same. The committee presented
the following:
1t is evident that the writer of the a ri ice
purposely intended to misrepresent the
reasons which led to the suspension OF
Union No. from the council The article
states that Union No. l was not sus.
pended for refusing to sign the contract
ofthe council, but for persistently re fusing to
ratify tie same, or comply with the laws
ana rules of majority OF the OrcaniZa-
tions affiliated with the council. This
the committee claims is n misrepresenta-
tion Of facts as the following quotations
from the official correspondence of the
council and statement will show:
when the local brewers locked out their
employees the union indorsed the boycott
placed on them by the Federation of Labor
and the Building Trades Council. on
February IL, copy OF contract was
received from the attorneys of the brewers
which required the union to pledge the sup
port of its members i'm consideration of
the privilege of being allowed to work
for the brewers. That contract was re.
jected by the union.
''In the meantime a committee was ap-
pointed by the council to prepare a form OF
contract. which when done proved to be a
copy of the brewers contract, with some
very slight alterations. This contract was
to be submitted to business men and pro-
posed builders Tor signatures. But, up to
the time Union No. l left the council the
only signatures obtained to the contract
were those of the brewers. The union pro-
tested against this form OF contract, and
every effort was made to have n simpler one
drawn up, but without avail. As a result
of the union not signing the contract its
members were discharges from the employ
OF the brewers.
ION April 90 the secretary OF the
council wrote to the union stating that
he had been instructed by the council to
say that the union would not be discrim.
mated against on jobs where its members
ought TO be employed, but could not pro-
tect them on the brewers work unless the
union indorsed the contract. On June 10
the secretary again wrote to the union
stating that there was nothing in the
contract that would COZ pflict with the
action of the Local Federation, as the
brewers were not mentioned in It, In.
closed was copy of the contract, which
the union was requested to ratify Tie
union again refused to sign because ty
that act 1t would pledge its support, or
rather a sell out to the brewers
"On June II we were suspended beca use
we would not indorse a contract which. in
the opinion of the members Of Union No. ],
was adopted for the sole purpose of aiding
the local brewers to defeat the action OF
Assembly
This union was not organized to aid ur.
ganiZed capital. to defeat the aims and OBJ
jects OF organized labor. Therefore. it
could not consistently sign the contract of
the Building Trades Council
I'VE are perfectly willing to abide by our
action in the matter, but we do not propose
to quietly submit TO being publicly misreD-
resented"
The quarterly meeting of the AmaIea-
mated Society of Carpenters and Joiners'
was held on last Monday evening in Co.'S
tello's Hall. Three propositions of men,
'"''s'' ~erc received and two new men,
ners Initiated.
The principal business Of the even