The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-17
AGREEMENT
DESTROYED
Plumbers Fear
Judge Estee's
Orders.
CLAIM COMPACT
IS ADVOCATED
Failure to Produce Paper May
Result in Contempt
Proceeding.

| A TIER a lively chase for the agree
| ~ ment between the Journeymen's
\ Union and the Master Plumbers
Association, though armed with an
order from Judge Estee, Attorney VIM.
F. Fleming. who is associated with
Thomas Fitch in the prosecution of the
! plumbers trust, was compelled to adj
| ing. The plumbers, masters and jour-
neymen, claim they have destroyed
their written agreement and that the
| terms under which the strike was set
for the plumbers, if they have been
candid in the matter, for If it can be
proven that this agreement is still in
existence, contempt proceedings be-
4 fore Judge Estee are likely to result.
1 This action by the defendants in the
case brought by Charles H. Brown yes
rerday will by no means end the pro-
| ceeding, for the plaintiff holds that the
obstruction of the written agreement
does not abrogate the unlawful combi
nation.
How serious the matter has become
may be seen from the action of the
United States Attorney Baird, who on
a former occasion directed the fight
against the trust, and who on Wednes-
| day sent for the representatives of the
Plumbers Union and Masters Associa-
ton in order that he might get an in
sight into the remarkable compact en-
tered into between employer and en-
ploye. T. H. Dawson, president of the
Masters Association. and Patrick
lO'Donnell, president of the Journey
mems Union, brought the written agree
ment to him for inspection. He inform
| ed the two men that such a compact
was in direct violation of the statutes,
and unless it was cancelled he would be
compelled to proceed against the mem
bers of the association. He advised the
committee that they would be wise to
cancel such an agreement, and the
proper thing to do was to hold joint
meeting Immediately and revise the
acts so as to not be in violation of the
United States law. This the two men
agreed should be done, and told Mr..
Baird that they would eliminate the
objectionable features, and return the
new agreement to him for approval, be-
fore adopting 1t. This was satisfactory
and the men left.
1t was a little later that Mr.. Flem-
ing started out to get a copy of the
agreement by virtue of an order from
Judge Estee. Upon the filing of the
following affidavit by C. H. Brown yes
terday the court issued the order here
20 attached:
In the District Court of the United
.-t;.tes in and for the Territory of Ha-
wall (having and exercising jurisdiction
as Circuit Court of the United States)
Charles Fl. Brown, plaintiff VS.. T. F.
Davidson J. N. Shafer, James Mott Jr,
Il. K. Bath, II. Gehring, w. w. Cross, A.
Pilas, f. w. Quinn W. w. Graham, John
Mott, w. j. England. E. Paxton, o. Sell
lers, Patrick O'Donnell, Frederick Hol-
land, Frank Rickenburg, A. Kister, John
Moore, T.. Gould Thomas Callihan, John
Doe Sullivan Richard Roe Read. Bad
SIattery. Nogood Smith, Thomas Dixon,
Unkind Husting, Thankless Montague,
Tinker OBrien, Worthless Leach and
John Welch, defendants
/ AFFIDAVIT.
United States of America, District of
! Hawaii, SIS:
! Charles HI. Brown, being duly sworn.
action is now pending in the above en-
titled court: that the defendants herein
have in their custody and under their
control a document relating to this cause
to-w1t: contract or agreement between
the defendants herein in which the de-
PENDANTS agree between themselves as
members of a certain association called
the Master Plumbers Association and the
Journeyman Plumbers Union, that such
Inf boz, nF r. act.
Plumbers Association will not employ In
and about the business of plumbing, In
which they are engaged in said City of
Honolulu, any journeyman plumbers who
! are not members of the Journeyman
Plumbers Union and in which such of
them as are members of said Journey
J man Plumbers Union and are journey
} man plumbers by trade will not work or
accept employment from any person or
persons who are not members of said
Master Plumbers Association.
i -Deponent AYERS that said agreement
was made at Honolulu on or about the
Sth day of August, 1901; and that said
agreement is signed by T. H. Davidson
E. R. Bath and H. Gehrng, as represen-
tatives OF the Master Plumbers Associa-
ton. and by Patrick O'Donnell, A. Kster
and Read, as representatives Of the
Journeyman Plumbers Union, and it may
Deponent AYERS that it is necessary to
PLAINTIFFS cause herein that he inspect
said document and take. a copy of the
; same. .'74
i gWhereupon deponent prays for an or
der of this court directed to the defend
tants herein commanding them to permit
plaintiff to inspect and take copy OF
the document above described.
c. II. BROWN.
! CYrtN
18th day of August 1901
(SeaD WALTER B. MAILING; Clerk.
On reading and filing the complaint in
this action and the above and foregoing
affidavit of Charles H. Brown, 1t is or
dered that the defendants herein permit
the plaintiff herein, his attorneys and
agents, to inspect and take copy of the
document In said affidavit described
Il (SeaD MORRIS NJ. ESTEE,
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