The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-16
WILL BE SETTLED TO-DAY
COLUMBIA CLUB AND ELECTRICAL
UNION IRE AGREED.
Unless the Sanborn Electric Company
Unfonizcs the Work Drastic
Measures viii Be Adopted.

The fight between the Sanborn Electric
Company and the Electrical Workers
Union over the work being o on the
Columbia Club building is rapidly coming
to a close. Both the union and club have
ment could be effected. Last night, at
the Electrical Workers meeting. a letter
was addressed to DR.. Franklin w. Hays.
chairman of the building committee of
the Columbia Club, stating that Sanborn
must be made to unionize the work or
be compelled to give up the contract by
tomorrow at 10 o'clock. The executive
board of the electrical worker was given
full power to take any action 1t might
see fit, If the request is not complied with.
The letter will be sent to-day.
Concerning the situation. DR.. Hays last
night said: THE work on the Columbia
Club building will be unionized to-day or
not later than tomorrow. AS chairman
of the building committee / have done
all within my power towards forcing San
born to employ union men. have as
sured the electrical workers that this will
be done, as the club wants nothing but
union labor on its building. We have Of
fered to pay Sanborn the difference be-
tween the price he pays his men and the
union scale, out of our own pocket, and
If he does not accept IL, steps will be at
once taken to force him to give up the
contract.
w nave two attorneys engaged who
will give their decisions to-day or to-mor-
row, and announce what procedure shall
be taken If he persists in holding the
contract and working %nonunion men. The
club is prepared to make him leave the
building, even II IL reaches the point where
We will have to pay him the price of the
contract and tell him to go. This con-
dition has progressed far enough, and we
intend to settle ii. The situation is de-
cerned, the Columbia Club is in sympathy
with it, and will see that organized labor
gets what is right and just. Further, l
wish to say that in any contract let In
the future, pains will be taken to see hat
it goes to a union contractor. The Column
bia Club desires all of its work done by
union labor, and / have authority to say
that the club Will never again be con-
fronted by an embarrassing situation like
this"
There were several small strikes of but
a few minute duration among the cleo
trical workers yesterday, in taking down
wires that were strung for the carnival
decorations. C. c. Hatfield has the con-
tract for the carnival electrical work,
and though his firm is boycotted, a COM
promise was effected for this particular
work, in order that the carnival work
might not be retarded. Yesterday, three
%nonunion men were put to work on the
monument, and no sooner We're they no.
ticed than Business Agent Dudley called
the union men off. The men climbed down
from the monument, but after a few min
utes of idleness, the nonunion men were
brought down by Harry Nestal, who rep
resented Hatfield, and the union men again
commenced work. On several of the street
decorations there were similar experiences,
but the nonunion men were let out and the
work progressed with but sigh Interrupt