The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-16
THE TROUBLE At AN END
A Proposition Has Been Submit
ted to the Bricklayers.
AN AGREEMENT REACHED
The School Trustees and the Bricklayers
Hold a Conference.-The Men Who
Stood by Whiteside VIII
Have TO Suffer.

j. V. Long and Charles Lane, MEM
bers of the building committee of the
board of school trustees, held a confer
ence last evening with President Bat
son and a committee from the Brick
layers union relative to the troubles
with Contractor Whiteside, and a prop
osition was submitted to the bricklay-
ers which will probably be accepted and
end the trouble which has been pre-
venting work going on on the new school
building. 1t was made evident, how
ever, by the Bricklayers' committee
that the men who stood by Mr.. White
side and signed the petition by which
the matter was appealed to the inter-
national union would be made to suffer
by the other members of the union.
we want to know just what you de-
sire" said Mr.. Long to the Bricklay-
ers COMMITTEES. and we want you to
know that the board intends to go
ahead with the building and do the
brick and rock work. We have a SUI
pervislng architect who is employed by
the month and ne will select a foreman
for the building"
He must be an active and practical
bricklayer," said Mr.. Batson. we can't
work under any one else"
w wish to do that and have the
work done. Mr.. Whiteside being appar-
entity unabl to do So" said Mr.. Long.
w want you to present the matter to
your union. Mr.. OBrien, the architect,
will employ as foreman a practical a
but we do not expect to be dictated to
as to whom we shall employ, so long as
we employ union labor, which we will
do. VIII that be satisfactory"
Yes, with the exception that there
are some men who have worked for Mr..
Whiteside and helped him to make this
fight and we object to any of these men
as foreman" replied MIR. Batson. out
side of these there are $50 other men
from whom a foreman can be selected
These men who work for Mr.. White
side are union men, are they not?" in
quired Mr.. Long.
Yes, they are union men"
d you object 10 these men working
at all?" asked Architect O'Brien.
mo, we only object to any one of
them as foreman said Mr.. Batson.
The latter said they included in their
objection all the men who worked for
Whiteside on the Hennessy building
and signed the petition which was sent
to the international headquarters.
Mr.. Long said it was not likely that
any of the men who are employed on
the new school building would be Sc
lected as foreman. but the trustees
could not take up any of the other
troubles between the bricklayers and
Mr.. Whiteside.
I'VE only want to say" added the
spokesman of the Bricklayers' commit
tee, that we will not work under n
man who signed that petition"
The BriCklayers' union has put a boy
colt on persons furnishing material to
Mr.. Whiteside, and in answer to an in
quiry from Mr.. Lane the president Of
the Bricklayers' union said that If the
original trouble was settled satisfactor-
lily to the union everything else would
be Strengthened out and that there would
be no further bubble or hitch. The COM
mittee stated that Mr.. O'Brien would
be provided with a list of names that
would be Objectionable n that the
union would give the trustees a Fin
and final answer tomorrow.