Evening star., 1896-12-11
ATTORNEYS.
UNDERTAKES.
MADE AN INVESTIGATION.
Brewery Company Issues n Statement
on Painters. Unions.

Brewery Company Issues n Statement
on Painters. Unions.
The board of directors of the Consumers
Brewery held a special meeting yesterday
to consider the proper stand for them to
take in the controversy, heretofore refer
red to in The Star. between the Painters
Assembly and the Painters and Decorators
Union, as they had been invited by both
organizations to do.
After adjournment Mr.. f. L. Jordan, sec
retary of the brewery company, said to a
Star reporter:
1.-The board of directors of the Consum-
ers' Brewing Company, after hearing the
testimony on the part of the president and
the recording secretary of the brotherhood
of Painters and Decorators Association,
No. 10, of the District of Columbia. and
an examination of the books of the finan-
cial secretary of the same, find that its
duty appears to be quite clear.
1.-The question to be determined is whether
the Brotherhood of Painters and Decora-
tors Association is a bona fide organiZa-
ton and entitled to the same recognition
at our hands as the Painters Organization,
No. o.179S, K. L., of this city. The purpose of this
board is to carry out its original intention,
as stipulated in contracts with architects
and builders, to wit: Employment to be
given to union labor men only. The sec
retary of the Brotherhood of Painters and
that there are about six members in good
standing in his organization, and that two
of them are exempt from dues. The finan-
cial secretarys books, which We're exam
ined by this board, show four members in
good standing, and that the president, re-
cording financial secretary have never
paid any dues. The stub of the check hook
shows that the last per capita tax paid, in
October was four dollars and forty cents
"a 40. which would lead the general Office
at Baltimore, to believe that the organiza-
tion had forty-four members in good stand
ing, when the books show only four at that
date.
''On the other hand. the books of the
Painters Assembly, No. 1885, K. of L.,
show that at the close of the last quarter
they had membership in good standing
of 126. and that since September 30, 1896.
twenty-four members have been reinstatei i
by payment of back Dues bringing the
total membership in good standing up to
December to $50. The books also show
that they paid per capita tax for the
quarter ending September 30 on 1876 mem
bers, and that the total membership on
that date was 32S. Sick benefits paid dur
ing the quarter ending September 30,
s1O0.1o, and the books further show that
the sum of 81 is paid each month for sup
port of the labor bureau, and that they
pay $3.50 on the death of each member and
sick benefit of IS per week The baIano e
$376.11. >'''
Reviewing the foregoing facts. the board
Of directors are constrained to conclude
that the brotherhood of Painters and
Decorators Association, No. 10, is not al
this time bona fide organization, entitled
to the same recognition as is Painters
Assembly, No. 1913, X. of l.. The fairness
of this conclusion must be apparent to an
who peruse the foregoing statement. and
the desire of the board to reach Just con-
clusion will be fully recognized
The election yesterday of delegates and
other representatives from the Bricklayers
Union of this city to the annual convention
OF the Bricklayers and Masons' Interna-
tional Union which. as heretofore stated in
fhe Star, begins In Worcester, Mass, next
month. resulted in the choice of J. I. Gles-
son. w. E. Bresnahan and John Welsh
delegates; M. p. Canty, w. H. MagIlan and
William Roach, alternates; James O'Rrien
deputy of the B. M. T. u