The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-04-24
DEMAND ACTION
United Building Trades
Want Authorities to
Attack Great Beef
Trust.
PLENTY OF LAW NOW
If the Proper Officials Will
Only Use It Against
the Combine.
LABOR's SUCCESS
More Union Men Wanted Now
Than Can Be Furnished
to Contractors.

| The United Building Trades Council OF
Hudson county at largely attended
| meeting held last night at Council Hall,
NO. IL Hobol1en avenue. adopted resolu-
tions denounclng the Beef Trust and d.
rected the organizations secretary q
communicate with the United States SEN
ators and Congressman from this State,
urging that they use their utmost endea-
vors to have the Attorney General take
immediate steps under the existing laws
to end the existence of the organization
of capitalists which is raising the price OF
meats throughout the country.
The subject was brought up by Secrs-
tary William e. Ward, Jr., who declared
that it would be useless to attempt &c
break the back of the trust by removing
the tariff from imports of meat, as has
been suggested. This country's only CON-
petitor in the meat markets of the world,
he said, was the Argentine Republic, and
the supply from there, without consider
ing the cost of importation, would not
equal the demand here.
1t was agreed that the existing laws
against trusts were ample to cope with
the case, and the counsel then put itself
on record by resolutions vigorously de-
nouncing the trust and demanding its
suppression
Delegates from every section of the
county reported the demand for union
men greatly in excess of the supply since
the recent settlement Of trade differences.
A communication from the Master
Plumbers of North Hudson. relative to
their inability to hold conference prior
to the Inauguration of the new wage
schedule of their trade on June /, was re-
ferred to the District Council of Plumb
ers
The Master Masons of North Hudson in
a communication presented several griev-
ances, and the Stone Masons organization
was directed to notify contractors in gem
eral of the conditions of their industry.
Grievances were received against Con-
tractors Wooden and Norden, of North
Hudson. for employing unfair labor, and
the allied trades were instructed not to
permit any of their men to work on any
Job being done by either of these contrac-
tors.
The only new delegate seated was Chas.
Majorie, of Painters Local No. 36, of Jer-
sey City.
Business Agent westlake reported that
lHe dlliOd 1uulioli at WI = Aii lii otteN'S
side Glucose works had been withdrawn
because of the refusal of the contractors
to pay the union wage rates, offering in
stead 80 cents an hour and asking the
men to work 10 hours day. All the car
penters, painters and steamftters had
gone out Monday at the request of Busi-
ness Agent R. E. Edwards, of the Car
penters, and Tuesday the fourteen cleo
trical workers had been withdrawn. Union
millwrights and pipecoyers with New
affiliations were still at work, but would
probably quit today, when the job will be
entirely tied up.
Local No 20, of the International Asso-
citation of Operative Plasterers', which is
recognized by the United Building Trades
Council as having jurisdiction over the
trade throughout the County, is at war
with Bayonne Local No. IS, of the Brick
layers and Plasterers' international As
sociation.
There are several other locals of the
last named national organization in this
county and their members. engaged at
plastering work, have become affiliated
with the Operative P.asterers. Recently
this organization obtained dispensation
and reduced its initiation fee temporary
to allow the Bayonne plasterers to join.
as it was understood they intended doing.
They did not, however, and the Operative
Plasterers will hereafter refuse to recog-
nize them as union men and have notified
contractors generally to that effect. The
other allied building industries of the
county will support them by refusing TO
allow their men to work on any job on
which other than Operative Plasterers are
employed.
The Operative Plasterers are better off
financially than any other individual
building trade organization. Last year
It's members did most of the work in Bay
onne. the opposing organization not con-
tanning enough plasterers to supply the
demand