The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-15
TO WATCH WORK
Building Trades Council
DisapproVes of Library
Award
STRIKE MAY BE ORDERED
Business Agent Instructed to
Secure Dismissal of Non
Union Men

There was full attendance at last
nights meeting of the Building Trades
Council. at Council Hail. No. II HoboAeh
avenue and a great deal of important
business was transacted. There is to pc
big parade and demonstration uneer
the auspices of the Council on Labor Day
and some time was consumed last night
In a discussion of matters pertaining
thereto.
A delegation from the Central Labor
Union. consisting of Messrs. Kendeck, OF
the Ctgarmakers. O'Neill of the Printers,
and Fletcher of the Macninists, was
present to confer with the council con-
cerning the parade. 1t is anticipated that
besides the labor demonstration the
Amalgamated Courts of Foresters, some
five hundred wheelmen and many clubs
will lbe in line. The council will offer
valuable prizes for the best represented
organization.
Representatives of the new organiza-
ton of the Bayonne Sheet Iron Workers
presented credentials, l5ad were received
by the Council The matter of organizing
the Bayonne plumbers was referred TO
the Business Agent.
Business Agent Conroy reported having
settled the difficulty on the Ford's job in
Thirty-third street, Bayonne. Ford's men
are now working but eight hours a day
at better pay.
The Bayonne Painters reported that
their recent picaic was a great success
They thanked the Council for the large
attendance of its delegates.
Agent Conroy reported having waited
upon the Street and Water Commission
ers and protested against a New York
firm being allowed to put in water and do
plumbing on the new Public Library
building He said he was given a very
attentive hearing. On motion of Delegate
Ward the secretary was instructed to
write letter of thanks to the Street and
Water Board.
Considerable discussion arose as to the
cause of a difference of $22. 900 between the
successful New York bidder for the con-
struetion of the new Public Library build
ing and the lowest Jersey City bidder.
Business Agent Conroy insisted that one
builder could buy his material as. cheap
as another as general rule. and the only
way there could be such a difference in
cost was by the employment of cheap and
incompetent labor on the new building.
He cited the case of Du Bois and the new
No. 26 School. the contract for the build
ing of which was awarded 10 Du Bois,
whose bid was 5000 less than the next
lowest bidder.
The Board of Education. he said, real
ized that to do the work at those figures
Du Bos would have to employ cheap
labor The Board at first refused to award
the contract to him. but was compelled to
do so by the courts. Mr.. Conroy said that
Du Bois paid from fifty cents to dollar
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the men employed in the construction of
the building. It was given out after last
nights meeting that the Public Library
would receive considerable attention from
the Building Trades Council.
The case of the Runston shops, in Ho-
boken, run by the Hoboken Land and
Improvement Company. in which some
non-union men are employed, came up for
discussion in the Executive Board. Busi-
ness Agent Conroy was instructed to
make 1t a union shop This will prob
ably mean strike. Mr. Conroy reported
having settled the difficulty in Plughs
plumbing shops in Hoboken after a two
hours strike.
The subject Of Hoboken carpenters
meeting in a hall where non-union beer
and cigars are sold was taken up for
discussion on complaint of the Central
Labor Union and referred to the Dis
trict Council of Carpenters. which meets
in Council Hall, Hoboken avenue, this
city. and numbers nine locals
The committee on the souvenir for the
Labor Day parade and exercises reported
that advertisers were slow to respond on
account of SO many fake advertising So
licftors going around. Many of these
claim to represent the Council or its sub
ordinate unions The Council decided to
ca1l the attention of the business men
IN the matter and ask them to assist
In running down such fakirs. If their
names can be secured the Council Will
investigate and prosecute the Offenders.
The Plumbers reported that the next
meeting of the District Council of Jour-
neymen Plumbers of New York and New
Jersey will be held on the first Sunday in
Julv at Yonkers, New York, and the fol-
lowing meeting in Trades Council Hall,
Newark. ON the first Sunday in August.
The Secretary said he had received 10
answer from the Fire or Police Boards
relative to the communications sent them
protesting against the detailing OF men OF
both forces to do carpentering work
while they are being paid by taxpayers
TO protect the city from fire and crime
The various delegates of the affiliated
trades reported that trade was very
brisk and that there was great demand
for union men,
The Business Agent was instructed ta
watch the work of Contractor Arc@lie
Mitchell, who is employing nom union
painters, and to use the combined forces
of the Trades Council to rectify the mat
ter.
The Plasterers' grievance against the
sbricklayer-p -plasterers' employed IN Ber-
gen Hall was referred to Business Agent
Conroy with instructions to take immedi-
ate ACTION