The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-27
BUTTE News.
NO ACTION WAS TAKEN
The Bricklayers' Union May For
felt It's Charter.
UNION STANDS SUSPENDED
There win Be No Trouble With the
Other Trades-Cannot Get Support
When They Refuse to Obey
Officers OF the Order.

No action was taken by the Bricklay-
srs union last evening at the meeting
held TO consider the proposition of with
urawing from the International union
rather than yield TO the mandate Of the
international union ordering that the
local union permit members 10 work
for Contractor Whiteside on the new
school building under penalty of for
1eiting their charter in the international
nnion. The order of the international
union and the telegram stating the
union would stand suspended until the
order was complied with was laid before
the meeting. but a motion to lay consid-
Grafton over for one week carried and
nothing was done.
Contractor Whiteside having receiv-
ed authority to bring i'm outside brick
layers If the local union held out. he
VIII now go ahead and secure outside
men and go on with the building. The
Stone Cutters union has decided TO al
low its members to work on the building
n eight men have already been nut
10 work at the quarry near the North
ern Pacific ~trestle, just east of the city,
getting out stone.
The matter of carpenter work has
not been reached yet. but the senti-
ment among the carpenters seems To be
that members of the Carpenters union
VIII be allowed To work. A leading
member of the carpenters union. i'm
speaking of the matter last evening,
said:
THE Butte bricklayers have refused
10 obey The mandate of the highest au-
shorty in their order and we can sup
port them in such an action. Some of
them talk about Withdrawing from the
international union. and if they do so.
OF course We can't longer affiliate with
ihem. Right or wrong they must obey
orders from headquarters, but in this
matter / believe they are wrong. They
contend that the mason work on the
school house should have been let in
a certain contract to practical masons.
but although the school board adver-
tised TO receive separate bids on the
mason work, not a single bid was re-
ceived on that portion of the work. ex-
cept the bids on the entire building.
When the bricklayrs' union attempt 10
say that their members shall not be
allowed TO work for members of any
other trade they are discriminating
against every other trade and such a
rule is of no benefit to the tourneymen
b~ricklayers, but il does help a few brick
contractors. Besides the rule has never
been enforced: contracts for brick
buildings are being let i'm Butte right
along To men who are not hricklayers.
Then the Hennessy building was nut
up by Contractor Whiteside without any
objection on the part of the Bricklay-
ers' union.
This contortion on the part Of the
bricklayers has lone a great OF harm
40 the building trades i'm Butte. Be
sides the McDermott hotel annex. I
know Of -four other large buildings. in
GLIDING a fve-story annex To the OwsIey
DlOCk. the construction ~ nht.h ha.
been abandoned or postponed on account
of the trouble with the b~ricklayers."
Secretary George Pheasey of the
Bricklayers' union resigned at last even
ing meeting, owing to the complicated
nature of the situation.