The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-06
WILL TRY TO
HARMONIZE
President Of Amalgamated
Painters and Decorators
Here for That Purpose
MEETING In LIPPMAN HALL

Last Night was well Attended and the
Addresses Were Interesting Men
are Trying to Make Harmony. but
Will be Firm in What They Term
Their stand for s'Fair Play other
Meetings Later
A labor meeting to which were in
vited all union men. members of any
labor association, bosses and any Others
who chose to attend. was held last
evening in Lippman Hall under the
auspices of the local branch of the
Amalgamated Painters, Decorators
and Paper Hangers of America.
The meeting was called for 7.3C
O'Clock, but it was nearly eight before
the meeting was brought to order by
Joseph Wiltberger, who presided.
Chairman Wiltberger introduced Mr..
Buhr, President of the Amalgamated
Painters and Decorators, who made
the speech of the evening. Mr.. Buhr
devoted himself to putting before his
audience the position which the Anal
gamated Painters occupy in relation
to other trade unions. The prime
cause of the meeting was the opposi-
tion which some of the unions in Nor
ristown have shown to the Amalga-
mated Painters. Some two or three
months ago the Carpenters Union noti-
fed their employers that they would
refuse to work with the Amalgamated
Painters after April l, 1903, and Mr..
Buhr was brought here by the Anal
gamated men to see if he could not as
sist in creating a more harmonious
state of affairs.
He went into the position of the
Amalgamated men at quite some
length and said that they had al
ways strongly supported the other
unions and that to-day, in New York,
the carpenters Brotherhood and other
trade unions were working side by
side with them. He said that the
time had arrived for the working
men to work in harmony with each
other and that they should combine
for their own protection and not fight
among themselves. He said further
that no matter how desirable harmony
might be the National Association
of Amalgamated Painters proposed
to stand by their Morristown brothers
and see that they got fair play The
would be'S" have always made trouble
for the Amalgamated men, he said,
and intimated that it might be some
thing of this kind in Morristown. He
denounced the Office of walking dele
gate as being bad thing for labor
organization and also as being the
ruination of many good mechanic.
He claimed that the Amalgamated
Painters had supported other trade
organizations more than any other
trade union and was surprised that
there should be any feeling here
against the Amalgamated men.
He was followed by Mr.. William
Thompson, District Secretary of the
Amalgamated Painters, who made a
short speech on the subject and in
vited questions aud explanations of
those present but could get no re-
sponse. He said that he could con-
ceive of no reason why brotherhood
men should refuse to work with ANAL
gated men who were honest and up
right and begged those present to give
some reason for the action taken here
against them.
The meeting was well attended by
both mechanics and their employers,
and the speakers were at times ap-
plauded. 1t is proposed to hold other
meetings later on and settle, if possi-
BILE, the differences between the
unions