The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-03
CARPENTERS STILL
OUT ON STRIKE
Sympathetic Strike of BrickIay-
erS at an End.
STATEMENT REAFF tRMED
Carpenters Committee Makes Affidavit
That McGilvray Said Southern I'm
ion Men Were Traitors-An
Error About Atlanta Job

The carpenters strike which was insti-
tuted against Contractor \. McGilvray,
who is building Fies' stable in Fourth ave-
nue., is still on as far as the striking car
pointers are concerned, although their
places appear to have been filed by other
men.
\ sympathetic strike was threAtered by
the brickiayers, who quit work at noon on
Thursday, but they returned to work yes
terday morning, much to the chsgrbn OF the
union carpenters, who have declared war
against working with d negro.
The interview with McGilvray which ap-
peared in The Age-Harald yesterday morn
ing, in which he branded as lies certain
statements made against him, brought
forth the following statenront from the car
penters, which was sworn to before w. II.
Stanley, justice OF the peace:
The Carpenters' Committee
We see in The Age Herald OF today an
interview with one, McGilvray, contractor,
in which he charges tho statements from
the Carpenters and Joiners' union as being
lies of the whole cloth" We think that is
a pretty strong way of putting it, but IL
that suits him, all right. If we are liars,
we do so on his own word, for we only
repeated after him. Here is exactly what
he said in regard to traitors:
During a long experience as a contrac-
tor In the south, l have never been able
to employ a carpenter as a foreman VINO
did not prove a traitor to me-
Now he comes up and claims that the
is a union REGARD 10 This
the committee was very exact about him,
the negro, being a union workman. We
asked Mr.. McGlvray that question In re-
ply, he asked US if the negroes had a union
here, or if he belonged to our union. When
informed that he did not, his reply was:
"He does not belong to the union then!"
In regard to his foreman employing nom
union men, that is true. but the foreman
said that before he put them to work he
had a promise from them to join the union
a tho first opportunity, which they did
"State OF Alabama,
Jefferson County.
'W. a. Smith, 5. NJ. Lively, Committee Of
Carpenters
Before me, w. H. Stanley, justice of
the peace in and for said state and county,
NJ Lively, vino, being by me first duly
sworn, say the above statement is correct.
"W. II. STANLEY, ]. p
L. Wallenhoupt, president of Carpenters
and Joiners Union No. 556, who was au-
thority for the statement that McGilvray
had been fired off job on the exposition
buildings for employing non-union men,
which was also branded as lie by Me
Gilvray in his interview, makes the fol-
lowing signed statement:
1t seems that [ am mistaken in the name
of the contractor from Atlanta referred
to in The Age-Herald Of May 80. If so 1
have done Mr.. Gilvray an injustice, but
acting upon the word of a number of gen.
tlemen from Atlanta l stated the facts
as I had heard them-that a contractor
with such or similar name had had trouble
in Atlanta on the exposition buildings. As
l said, if he is not the gentleman, he has
been put in the wrong light, and. there
FORE will do anything honorable to re-
tract or refute such impression.
E. WOLLENHAUPT,
President Carpenters and Joiners Union
No 556.
President Leath, of the Birmingham
Trades Council. who also made the same
charge against McGilvray, states that he
received his information from the same
source as Mr.. Wollenhaupt and at the
time had reason to believe it was true.
Some of the striking carpenters have
secured work on other jobs, and others
have left town.