The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-09-17

Supported By Hudson's
Forces.
strike of the allied trades on all
buildings on which members of Plumbers
Local Union No. 16S are employed is
likely to be inaugurated in Hoboken to-
day as result of the trouble between
the union plumbers organizations of the
county told of in Saturdays News"
The Executive Committee of the Unit
ed Building Trades Council of Hudson
County has decided that the Hoboken
plumbers organization had no right to
compel the two members of Local No.
IA of Jersey City to quit work in Hobo
ken; that they must be reinstated and
their wages paid for the time they were
out of work; that Local No. 168 must
also pay all the expenses of the contro-
versy pending between the two organiza-
tions, including the salary of the special
business agent sent out by No. IA; the
expenses of that organization in connec-
tion with the pending trouble and the
expense attending the special meeting of
the Executive Committee called to con-
slider the matter, and that hereafter the
working card issued by the Building
Trades Council must be recognized with
out question. 1t was also decided, if
necessary, to extend the strike to the
jurisdiction of Local No. S4 of North
Hudson, which body, it is claimed, was
in sympathy with the Hoboken plumb
ers' action
This decision was reached at special
meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Building Trades Council held at Katz's
Hall, Fifth street. Hoboken, yesterday
afternoon. Those present were:-Charles
Meehan, representing the lathers, chair
man; NJ Connolly plasterers; F. A. Bran
dis, painters; Thomas Brady, laborers;
William Murray, plumbers; J. Conroy,
representing the carpenters in place of
delegate Frank Vreeland, who is attend
ing the national convention of his trade,
and Business Agent Thomas F. Conroy.
The only absentees were the representa-
tives of the electricians and the tin and
sheet iron workers.
The grievance of Local No. IA against
the Hoboken union was presented by
William Morton and Richard White, mem
bers of No. 14's board of directors.
Business Agent Conroy counselied mod
Grafton. Plumbers delegate Murray said
that he was placed in a peculiar position.
representing in the executive board of the
council as he did, all four locals of his
trade, to be compelled to sit in judgment
on a trade difference. He vigorously OPP
posed the proposition to compel Local 1853
to pay the expenses of the executive
board in connection with the matter. In
this he was supported by the laborers'
delegate, but was outvoted by the other
four industries represented.
The other propositions outlined above
were adopted by a unanimous vote, and
Business Agent Thomas F. Conroy was
ordered to visit the shops of Boss Plum
bers McGovern and Kniffen this morning
and demand the reinstatement of the two
members of No. IA who had been COM
PEELED to quit by the delegate of No. 16S
On the refusal of this demand the Busi-
ness Agent was directed to strike all affii-
lated industrious or jobs being done by
either of the employing plumbers named,
and if necessary to extend the strike to
every job on which members of No. 1853
are employed
The meeting of the Executive Board
was held in Hoboken to enable Painters
Delegate r. A. Brands, of that city, who
has sickness in his family, to attend.
The motion to support No. IA in the con-
troversy was made by the plasters' dele
gate. and seconded by the carpenters.
The story of the causes leading to the
disruption between the plumbers orgaiza-
tions of the county was told in Satur-
days News" The trouble began when
A Il rfo
Council of New York and New Jersey,
on charges preferred by Local No. 81 of
North Hudson.
The District Council is composed of all
union plumbers organizations within a
radius of Is miles Of the New York itY
Hall, but as affiliation with it was not
compulsory, suspension by it did not af-
fecI the standing Of Of No. "A as = union In In
ordered two members of the Jersey City
body working in Hoboken to quit on the
grounds that their organization had been
suspended by the District Council.
This was done despite the fact that the
two men had Building Trades Council
working cards and their organization
United Association, the National body of
the trade. The appeal of No. IA to the
Building Trades Council followed with the
The action Of No. 81 Of North Hudson
in connection with the matter was also
considered by the Executive Board of the
Council. 1t was Claimed tnat NO. "a had
attempted to knock off members of No
10 in the Union Hill section, but that the
employing plumbers there, in hearing the
statement of the delegate of the Jersey
City body, refused to order the men to.
quit.
The fact that No. IA had retaliated on
No. 16S by laying off two of the latter's
men working in its jurisdiction was dis
cussed. The representatives of the Jersey
City organization explained this action by
stating that they were compelled to pro-
vide places for their two members or
dered to quit in Hoboken.
No more were disturbed because their
Building Trades Council working cards
were recognized.
How far the trouble will extend will de-
pend on the result of today's negotiations.
Local 16S will meet tomorrow night.