The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-03-29
THE LIBRARY STRIKE.
Settlement Is Now Left to
to Business Agent
Conroy.

Thomas F.. Conroy was reelected
Business Agent of the Hudson Building
Trades Council for six months at last
nights meeting of the Executive Com
mittee The vote stood d:-Conroy. 81;
Stephen. A. Rodgers, of the Laborers, 2,
and F. A. Brandes of the Painters, 1.
At the meeting of the Council a COM
mittee from the New York Building
Trades Council was present and urged the
appointment of a committee to confer
with other trades councils in New York
and vicinity with reference to the estab-
lishment of stronger union ties between
the various bodies The conference will
take place in Centre Hall, Thirty-second
street, New York, next Sunday. Repre-
sentatives will be present from the New
York Building Trades Council, the Hud-
son Building Trades Council of this coun-
ty the Essex Building Trades League,
the Brooklyn Board of Delegates and the
Bronx Building Trades Council
This action clearly shows the influence
of the Hudson Trades Council with the
New York councils, and further shows
that it has compelled recognition from
those councils which, it appears, tried to
freeze out Jersey labor from New York
jobs. The committee appointed to attend
the conference is composed of Ward of
the Painters Gear of the Laborers, Duffy
of the Tin and Sheet Iron Workers, and
Gallagher of the Carpenters.
The trouble over the job on the Free
Public Library Building was discussed at
length. Representatives were present from
the Metallic Lathers of New York, the
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers of
New York and the Roebling Construction
Company.
Delegate Duffy, of the local Tin and
Sheet Iron Workers, said he did not care
to take sides in the controversy, but he
insisted that the Amalgamated Sheet
Metal Workers of New York should not
be recognized as they claimed jurisdiction
over here and yet refused tin and sheet
iron workers on other jobs.
The delegate from the Amalgamated
Shet Metal Workers said he knew nothing
of this and that he would investigate. The
representative of the Roebling Construc-
ton Company said his company wanted
the dispute settled.
The representative of the Amalgamated
Sheet Metal Workers said he knew nothing
of the committee of the Central Fedora
ton of Labor of New York appointed to
investigate the trouble, showing that the
New York Metallic Lathers had violated
their agreement with the Roebling Con-
struction Company. He claimed that the
Amalgamated Workers We're free to enter
into a contract with the Roebling Con-
struction Company. The representatives
of the Metallic Lathers denied that there
had been any violation of the contract
with the Roebling Construction Company.
While they admitted they had a Tepresen-
tative before the committee, the commit
tee had promised to have representative
of the New York Building Trades Council
present 1t had failed to notify that or
ganization and when the representative
| appeared the committee refused to hear
him On that ground the Metallic Lathers
refused to abide by the committees de-
ciSion.
The matter was finally left with the
Business Agent.
There was a warm fight over the mat
ter of business cards for the ensuing
quarter. The Executive Committee re-
ported in favor of charging twelve cents
card for each trade having over 1000
members, seventeen cents per card for
trades having 500 members, and twenty
cents per card for all other trades. The
Carpenters, who numbered over 500,
claimed a reduction, and the Plasterers
wanted a uniform price, but the report of
the Executive Committee was finally
adopted.