The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-09
PECULIAR TACTICS.
Labor Men Are Not
Satisfied With Pain
ters' Action.
UNDERHAND METHODS HINTED.
Thursday Nights Action
May Split the
Union.
UNDERHAND METHODS HINTED.

!
orators Union in labor headquarters
Thursday evening, when the job on the
Kelley & Delehanty building was de-
clared a fair one, as told in yesterdays
Spy. was the all absorbing topic of dis
cussion' yesterday in labor union cir
cles.
The Spy man called upon Secretary
| William Crosbie of the union last eve
ming, and obtained his records of the
meeting, which prove conclusively that
the session Thursday evening was a
freeze-out to the committee from the
Building Trades Council, which at
tended the meeting for the purpose of
| stating the labor unions side of the
/ trouble with the physicians
/ President Ross Mccain of the Paint
ers' and Decorators Union has publicly
| announced that he has been a friend of
! DR.. Delehanty for years. His actions
/ Thursday evening proved this The
meeting of the Painters and Decorat-
ars' Union on the evening of Aug. II,
| by the records, shows that T. F. Har-
ney, president of the Building Trades
| council, spoke upon the Kelley & Del
ehanty trouble. The action of the B. 7.
c. was Endorsed by the Painters and
| Decorators Union.
| At the meeting on the evening of Aug
"a, Vice-President r. ]. Shaw raised an
| objection to the boycott on the Kelley
Il Delehanty building. He argued that
the strike clause in the constitution of
the union made it impossible for action
\ to be taken. Members said that the
Kelley & Delehanty trouble had never
assumed the aspect of strike. That
| did not cause Mr.. Shaw to cease his de-
| lberations. and it was announced in
| private that the president, who
upheld Kelley & Delehanty, had been
assured of work on the building by the
tirm having the painting contract
The union sent protest to headquar-
| tiers, and the vote of the meeting held
Aug. II, was rescinded. AT the meeting
Aug. 81, Secretary Crosbie moved that
Drs. Kelley and Delehanty attend the
next meeting and confer in the presence
of the Painters and Decorators union
| with members of the Building Trades
| Council, who had visited them relative
to hiring none but union men.
Several members of the union APP
| proved of the motion to have the ply
| sicians present, but were not in favor
of inviting the B. T. c. committee. Sec
rotary Crosbie called for fair play, ana
Thursdays meeting resulted. It was
~
mittee should confine arguments strict
| ~ to the Kelley & Delehanty block. DR..
Kelley spoke of the work he had done
| for labor unions in the past and was
allowed to continue but President Il. F.
Harvey was forced to confine his state
ments to the trouble on the block IN
| Trumbull square.
| Last night Secretary Crosbie said.
| / advocated the meeting, believing that
harmony would result. To my knowl-
edge, the physicians made no mention
OF having the trouble settled by arbitra-
ton, but have always believed in rea-
sonable methods of arbitration. 1t is
not too late to appoint committee of
three union members, and have the doc
tors appoint a committee of three to
settle the matter by arbitration.
THE Painters and Decorators union
| and all other labor organizations con-
cerned in the trouble will not be bene
fitted by continued wrangling; neither
will the doctors. I refused to act as a
delegate from my union to the B. r. c.
because the meeting was too one
sided.
1T does not seem possible that the men
who voted against their fellow workers
| VIII nave the daring to attend the next
meeting of he Building Trades council
| ana expect to be seated I feel that the
Painters and Decorators Union win re-
greet the action of Thursday night, and
II the union does not, the labor organic
atior viii not be helped by the tactics
| employed by the Painters and Decor
ators' union"
| Among the members of the union.
| there is dissatisfaction over the meet
ing of Thursday evening. A reconcilia-
ton with the Baltimore faction of
painters and decorators has been under
way put the two local factions have
been drawing apart since the queer
meeting, and although the Baltimore
| faction has never, been organized in this
| city, prominent member Of the union
said last night that an independent or
| ganization of at least so members could
be organized among the members of
| the Painters and Decorators union
1 who consider the action of Thursday
evening underhanded
In the advent of a new union of local
| painters and decorators, the present one
would have no recognition The Central
Labor union would have the new union
affiliated with the American Federation
| of Labor ard Building Trades council
| and the Painters and Decorators union
| of today would be alone in its fight
| against employers.
At the meeting of Building Trades
| council, Wednesday evening, a vote
upon seating the delegates from the
Painters and Decorators union will be
taken and it is probable that there will
| De freeze-out unless the union takes
back water and upholds it's brother or
! ganizdsions.
At the meeting of Brewers Union, No.
| 1876, in Labor headquarters, last even
! ing, routine business was transacted.
| Charles S. Chamberlain, who asked for
! an investigation of the affairs existing
| at the Worcester Brewing Corporation,
was not present. William Trautman of
Springfield who was delegated by the
national executive board to investigate
| the charges has not sent his report to
| the national organization.
| Mr.. Chamberlain may come before
| the local union to answer charges of
unmanly methods Of procedure. 1t is
| alleged that Mr.. Chamberlain in his at
| lacks upon Chief Engineer John Muir
| ply, gathered data which did not an
| ply to the case, and although the union
! has remained neutral upon the ques-
| ton, Mr.. Chamberlain is being scored
| for his tactics. 1t was said last night
that Chamberlain obtained the seal of
| the local union to a document relating
| to his trouble with Murphy, and that
he pasted another sheet to the docu-
ment and forwarded 1t to the national
| union These grave charges may be
aired with Mr.. Chamberlain as DEFEND
ant at future meeting of the union
| Organizer John j. Connolly addressed
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