The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-31
BUILDING TRADES
EXPECT NO TROUBLE
But Non-union Order VIII Be
Enforced.
IN EFFECT TOMORROW
WORK MUST BE ALL UNION OR
ALL NoN-UNIoN.

The people of this community. es-
pecially those interested in building
operations. have been awaiting the
approach of the first day of April with
much anxiety, fearing friction of some
kind between the contractors and the
union workingmen because OF the ulti-
natum Of the latter that union men
and non-uniOn men could not work to-
gether after that date.
The. Building Trades Council has not
receded an inch from the position it
took in its notice to the contractors in
the middle OF February It still main
tains that if non-union man IS kept
on any building or work after the 1St
day of April, that building or piece of
work will have to be completed
throughout by non-uniOn wOrkmen. as
no union man viii be permitted 10
work upon il.
When the notice was first sent out
by the council it created a sensation
Dire disaster was predicted IN the
realm of building and a number of
contractors said that under no circum-
stances would they submit to what
they We're pleased to cali dictation at
the hands of the workingm But
time has brought about a much better
feeling; must Of the local contractors
are convinced that the new order
would be advantageous to them as well
as to the men. and the feeling last
night, both among the contractors and
the union men, was that there would
be but little il any trouble on Monday,
when the order becomes effective
A little friction is anticipated. Ther~
are some of the contractors who are
still holding OUT and there are two
or three buildings now going up where
it is insisted that non-union men must
TO that, but they insist that the build,
ing must be completed from top 10
bottom without the aid OF 2 single
union man on any branch of the work
This they consider to be next TO inn
possible
The Building Trades Council had an
important meeting in Federation hall
last night, but nothing would be given
out as to what transpired behind the
closed doors. At the same time it was
very plain from the attitude of the
men that they had determined more
fully than before to stand by their
position, and that they felt themselves
to be masters of the situation. 1t is
stated that the contractors viii be
very greatly surprised when they dis
cover how very few of the good me
chanics in the city are sim outside Of
the union.
One of the big contractors said yes
terday that he did not anticipate any
trouble from the men who are living
in Salt Lake, but it is the men who
always flock to the place where work
is plentiful who were to be feared. The
local men are interested in the up
building of the community, just as
much so as the contractors or am
other citizens: but there are men who
go from place to place and take ad-
vantage of the unions to eXtOrt higher
wages from the contractors than they
are really worth, and in this way have
a tendency to paralyze building. This
man thought there would be no trou-
bic and that most Of the work of the
city would go right on with union
WOrkmen-
The News building, on the corner of
Main and South Temple, is not taken
into consideration by either contractors
or the Trades Council. as most of the
work done there is supposed 10 be done
by the tithing system.