The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-01-18
LABOR UNIONS At ODDS |
Building Trades Council
Disagreed With New
) York Delegates.

The friendly relations heretofore exist
ing between the Building Trades Council
of this county and the central labor or
ganazations Of New York we're threatened
with disruption at last nights meeting of
the council "A Newark firm recently took
a lot of Newark tile settlers to work on a
job at One Hundred and Second street and
the Boulevard, in New York. The New
York carpenters employed on the Jop went
out on a sympathetic strike. Their places
were taken by Jersey City carpenters.
At last nights meeting of the local
Building Trades Council there were pres
ent delegates from the New York carpen-
tiers and from the Newark tile setters
Third Vice President McVey, of the Inter
national Union of Mosaic and Encauslc
Tile Settlers, who lives at Washington, was
also present The New York delegates
demanded the withdrawal of the Jersey
City carpenters from the job at One Hun
dred and Second street and the Boulevard
The delegates from the Newark tile set
ters said the New York tile settlers were
not identified with the American Federa-
ton of Labor at the time they went on
strike and that the New York carpenters
employed on the job had no business going
out with an organization not identified
with that body.
Third Vice President McVey, of the In
terna tional Tile Settlers Union, admitted
that the New York tile settlers until TWO
weeks after the strike had been declared
men not in the union
The Newark men declared that the New
York men were trying to completely shut
| out Jerseymen; that they were building
a wall around New Yorks field of labor.
This seemed to be general sentiment
among the Jerseymen, but in order to
keep faith with New York the Council
decided to refer the matter of Withdraw
| ing the Jersey City carpenters from the
| New York job in question to the District
Council of Carpenters, Informing that
body that it was the sense of the Council
that the Jersey City carpenters should be
withdrawn.
/ The Council passed a resolution protest
| ing against the detailing of men in the
police and fire departments to do car
pentering, painting, plastering, ETC., de-
claring that both departments We're thus
crippled and union labor kept out of en-
ployment.
A committee was appointed to draft a
new constitution and bylaws. William T..
Ward is chairman of the committee.
The painters announced a new scnedule
| fixing upon $275 for day of eight hours
| as the rate of wages. 1t is to go into
effect after April l. One apprentice is to
| be allowed to every ten men IN a shop.
| Time and a half will be charged for over
work and double time for Sundays and
| holidays.
| The fathers also submitted a new sched-
| ule fixing 81 per thousand or $3.50 for a
| day of eight hours as the rate of wages
demanded. The new schedule will take
| effect after May l.
| Business Agent Conroy was ordered to
settle at once the plasterers' grievance
concerning work on. the new school build
| ing in Malone street, West Hoboken.
| a communication was received from As
| sembly No 1877, K. of L., asking the Coun-
| Gil to refuse to discriminate against goods
bearing it's K. of L. label.