The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-09-15
PL UMBERS
AT ODDS.
Four Local Unions Are
Arrayed Against One
Another.
NO. IA SUSPENDED
That Started the Ball Rolling
and No One Knows When
1t Will Stop.

trouble of serious nature, which
threatens to affect all the other building
industries of this county has arisen in
the ranks of the journeymen plumbers.
The four local unions of that trade affil-
lated with the United Building Trades
Council are seemingly hopelessly arrayed
against one another.
The disagreement began when Local
Union No. IA of Jersey City, the parent
local of the trade in this county, was
suspended by the New York District
Council of Plumbers on charges preferred
by Local Union No. 81 of North Hudson.
This suspension in no way affected the
standing of the Jersey City plumbers or
ganization as a union body. It's affilia-
tions with the United Building Trades
Council the Eastern States League and
the United Association-the national CEN
trail body of the trade-continued uninter-
rupted. The suspension by the District
Council was not recognized by either of
these organizations because affiliation
with it was not compulsory.
The trouble between the Jersey City and
North Hudson plumbers eliminated the
other day when Local Union No. 1853, of
Hoboken. knocked off several members
The grounds for refusing to recognize the
Jersey City men were that they were un-
der suspension by the District Council.
At a meeting of No. IA at Council Hall,
No. IL Hoboken avenue, Jersey City
Heights, on Thursday night, it was deter
mined to bring the matter before the
Building Trades Council, whose working
card the delegate of No. 1853 had refused
to recognize, and also before the execu-
tive board of the United Association. AS
a preparatory step a telegram was sent
to the latter organization asking how No.
IA stood on the books of the National
body. Secretary-Treasurer L. w. Tilden's
reply received yesterday was:-
NO. IA is o. K. on books"
A special meeting of the Executive
Board of the Building Trades Council was
held at Council Hall last night, and rep
resentatives of No. IA laid the matter be-
fore that body. 1t was held that the Dis
trict Council being a subordinate body
to the United Association the formers S
suspension was not binding unless con-
CURED in by the national body. The de-
cision of the local executive board was a
recommendation that charges be pre-
ferred to the Building Trades Council
against Locals 81 and 1853 for refusing to
recognize the working card of the county
central body.
The Jersey City local at once forward
ed charges against Nos. 81 and 1853 to the
headquarters of the United Association
at Chicago.
In the disagreement between the Jour-
neymen Plumbers of the county Local
Union No. 1S1 of Bayonne has taken sides
with the Jersey City organization, while
North Hudson and Hoboken stand to-
gether against the two bodies in the
southern part of the county.
No. IA is the oldest journeymen plumb
ers' organization in the county, having
been in existence over fifteen years. It's
charter covered the entire county, and it
was only with sit consent that the Hobo
ken body obtained a charter Largely
through the efforts of the Jersey City or
ganization Nos. S4 and 1S1 were organized
and granted charters. The contention of
the members of No. IA is that they have
always held their jurisdiction open to af-
flliated locals, but that they themselves
have been Disseminated against when
working outside of Jersey City
The fight is bitter one and it is feared
that the other affiliated trades may be-
come involved, through sectional interests,
whichever way the Building Trades Coun-
Gil decides the matter