Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-14
BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL
Considers Several Charges of Using Non.
Union Workmen.
Wages Below the Scale-The Work on
the New Columbia Opera
House.


ing Trades Council was held last evening.
President William Silver in the chair and
Mr.. James Boyce, secretary. There was a
good attendance.
The grievance committee reported that
none but unicn carpenters were now being
employed on the new Columbia Theater:
all the non-union men who were working
there having been discharged.
The painters reported that the painting
there was being done by contractor who
Is working non-union painters, and a COM
mittee from their union had requested the
contractor to give the work to members Of
Union No. 10 of Washington, but he posi-
lively declined to do so.
The matter was referred to the grievance
committee of the council. who will make
an effort to have union painters employed,
as there Is an agreement between the own
ers of the theater and the Building Trades
Council that none but union men shall be
employed on the work.
A communication was read from Car
penters Union, No. l, stating that nom
union carpenters were being employed on
work that is being constructed by Mr..
Christian Heurich, the brewer, in contra
vention of the agreement on the subject
between him and the Building Trades
Council. The communication was received
and placed on file. and the delegates from
the carpenters represented in the council
denied the truth of the statement No fur
Their action was taken in the matter.
| 1t was reported that the contractor who
is doing the pastering at the new Column
bia Theater was employing plasterers not
members of Plasterers' Assembly. The
statement was made that the contractor re-
ferred to employs non-union men. and that
he was objected to by Plasterers' Assembly.
He, however, agreed to employ members or
the assembly on this work, but they re-
fused the proposition unless the contractor
would agree to employ only members OF
the assembly on all future work.
To this he would not agree, and the mat
ter was brought to the attention OF the
Central Labor Union at it's last meeting.
and the district organizer was requested
to the men being employed on the work
on the theater and, if possible, unioniZe the
job. The organizer did So and reported
that the men would be organized into q
plaSterers' union Sunday next, and thus
the job will henceforth be fair job
throughout.
Below the Scale.
A committee representing the Central
Labor Union called at the navy yard yes
terday to investigate the report made to
that body at it's meeting Monday evening.
that union bricklayers were being employed
there at less than the union scale Of wages.
and found the report to be true The COM
mittee ascertaned that twenty bricklayers
We're being employed and that eleven of
them were being paid as second-class work.
men. 1916 per day. and the others. who
were rated as first class, 81, the regular
scale.
Mr.. Yelling, the foreman of yards and
DOCKS informed the visitors. the committee
said, that the wages of the second-c class
men would be advanced to the full rate on
and after tomorrow Several Of the men
informed the committee that Lieut. Moore
who Is in charge of the improvement being
made, told them that the job was only a
short one, and that it would be unneces-
Sary to make any advance in their wages.
The committee will today call at the
Navy Department, and, il possible, see Sec
rotary Herbert in reference to the matter
The Federation Of Labor met as usual in
weekly meeting last evening. President
James F. McHugh presided, and Mr.. c. A.
Maidens was secretary.
The contract committee reported as the
result of Investigations made by them that
hereafter carpenters employed on the Con-
sumers brewery, at Rosslyn. would be paid
union wages, and that in future all men
employed there would be required to show
the card OF the union to which they belong
The committee on contracts was request
ed TO investigate a report that non-union
men We're being employed on the Columbia
asked to look into the allegations contained
IN a communication which was read, stat
ing that one well-known bakery here was
employing non-union men and another
patron1Zed nOn-union shops
The announcement was made that the
Machinists' Union had adopted a resolution
that a fine would be imposed on any mem
Der OF their organization who patronized
the cars of the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way Company.
resolution was adopted requesting that
the members of the Bakers Drivers Union
here not to receive bread that it was
sought to deliver on Sunday.