The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-22
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR
A Bricklayer Sues the Old Union,
No. 81, for $3.50 Damages.
HAD TO SIGN AN ORDER
He Claims 1t Was Extortion-An Appeal
for the Destitute in the Occur
d'Alenes-The Carpenters Diff
ferences Said to Be Settled

William Mcintyre, hricklayer and
Union of Bricklayers and Stonemasons,
| has instituted a suit in Justice Nichols
court against the Building and Trades
council, the old union, No. "a, of brick
layers and stonemasons. and the officers
of the two organizations for $3.50 dam
agts and to regain possession of an or
der for $50, which he claims was OBJ
tanned from him by eXtOrtion and
threats of boycott. Besides the two
labor organizations the defendants
named in the complaint are President
Thomas It. Shulin, Treasurer e. D.
Pring and various John Does and Rich
ard Roes of the Building and Trades
council: President Robert O'Brien, Sec
rotary E. C. Williams and Treasurer
Peter j. Newstrom of union No. "a.
1t appears that sometime during the
latter part of April the Building and
| Trades council and the old Bricklayers'
union imposed a fine of $50 on McIn-
tyre because he took a contract for
some stone work contrary to the rules
of his union. BY threatening him with
| a boycott, so Mcintyre claims, he was
forced to sign an order on his employer,
| Patrick Wall. for the $50 but subse-
quently he countermanded the order.
Wall, however, had been notified by the
committee that he would he held re-
sponsible for the $50, and he held it and
still has it. Mcintyre, in his suit, de-
mands the return of the order, unpaid,
and for $3.50 damages.
The following appeal from the com
| mittee of the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor assembly and Miners union, APP
t~I - i..tt n
d'Alene miners, was sent out yesterday:
IAN Appeal to Mercy.-Dear Sir: 1t
is no longer a secret that actual star
vafion is threatened among the unfor-
tunate people of the Inflated Occur
d'Alene region. and that this condition
| is by no means confined to any particu-
lar class. All have to meet the demon
hunger--on the same plane. and women
| and children are crying for the necessi-
| ties of life.
'"The Silver Bow Trades and Labor
| assembly, in conjunction with the Butte
| Miners union and other organizations,
| have resolved to appeal to the gener-
osity of the citizens of Silver Bow coun-
| ty for aid in this matter.
provisions are needed worse than
| money. and if it is within your power
or good will to assist the good cause
with a liberal donation the same will
be duly appreciated
"a committee will wait upon you in
| day or so, as immediate action is i'm
| perative THE COMMITTEE"
1t was stated yesterday that the
| trouble between the carpenters and
| the Builders exchange6had been prac-
tically settled by the carpenters reced-
| ing from their demands and withdraw
| ing all the fines which had been assess
| ed against the contractors and others.
| The strike of the carpenters was SYM
| pathetic, and resulted from the troubles
| of the brick and stonemasons and
| plumbers, the carpenters having no
| grievance of their own. The builders
| won the fight because they We're in l2o-
| sition to do their own work and be in
| dependent of the carpenters.
G. A. Lafayette. state organizer of
| the International Union of Bricklayers
and Stonemasons and president Of the
local union, says the membership of the
new organization is increasing very
| rapidly The Builders exchange has
| adopted resolutions binding themselves
| to emDlOV Only members of that lJnion