The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-12
BUILDING STRIKE
is DECLARED OFF
CONTRACTORS AND LABORERS
AGREE TO ARBITRATE.
WORK TO BE RESUMED
UNDER OLD CONDITIONS
Arbitration Board is to Report by Jan
uary 1...Terms Of Agreement.
All Men Return to Work.

Minneapolis, Sept. 10.-The strike of
building laborers, which has paralyzed
construction work since early in
August, has been called off and Tues
day the men who quit work returned
to their places and the work on the
big buildings now in the course of
erection was resumed.
Te contractors and laborers have
agreed to submit their dispute to an
arbitration committee which will re-
port it's findings Jan. 1, 1904. In the
meantime the brickyalers and building
laborers agree to return to work and
to abide by the decision of the COM
mittee when the question has been set
tied.
From now until next April when the
decision Of the arbitration goes into
effect, there will be no recognition of
the union by the contractors.
They will hire men without reference
to any fixed scale of wages and will
deal with the men as individuals.
The decision of the committee will
not be retroactive, 50 that no back pay
will be received by the laboring men
in the event the committee should de-
eide on an increase in wages.
BY the time the decision goes into
effect the buildings in course of con-
struction will be completed.
T.: p. Agreement is Reached.
H. The prop ositior#z for nad justnerltsof
the differences between the contractors
and the laborers was agreed to yester-
day at meeting between Representa-
tives Of the contending factions.
| The full text Of the arbitration plan
! is as follows:
can arbitration committee is to be
selected as follows: The master
| builders shall choose three men of
their organizations and the local Inter-
national Hod Carriers and Building
Laborers shall choose three of their
own men and the six so chosen shall
unanimously agree upon a list Of ten
names of men engaged in business in
the city of Minneapolis who are neither
contractors, bricklayers nor laborers.
Such ten names shall be written on
separate slips of paper and placed in
| a box, and three of such slips shall be
drawn by lot under the supervision Of
the six men first mentioned.
Board Of Arbitration.
1.-The three men whose names are
| drawn shall be a board of arbitration
and shall decide all questions which
may come before such board of arbi-
tration In case the three men whose
names are first drawn, or any of them,
refuse to act, or are unable for any
reason to act, additional names shall
be drawn by lot, and so on until a
| ic eh
which can and will serve as such arbi-
| traitors.
| "Such arbitration committee shall
decide all diiculties between the con-
tractors and laborers in the city Of
Minneapolis, and shall deliver a writ
ten report of their decision to each of
the above named organizations, Jan.
l. 1904, and the decision of the ma
iority of such committee shall be final
and each Of the said organizations
agree to abide thereby.
| "The decision of such arbitration
committee shall go into eect and be
operative from April 1, 1904, to April
1, 1905.
'ntil April 1, 1904, wages and con-
ditions of work shall remain as they
were Aug. 1, 1903.
| "A1l work shall be Immediately re-
sumed and continued pending the deci-
sion of such arbitration coinmittee.''
This agreement was signed yester-
day by F. G. Mcmillan, president of the
master builders, and Robert Wilson,
national organizer Of the building la
borers, and other representatives OF
the labor organizations.
! Brickiayers Agree.
! The bricklayers have signed an
agreement undertaking to work until
April 1 under the conditions that OBJ
tanned prior to Aug. 1. This agree
ment is signed by F. G.. Mcmillan,
president, and w: w. Nelson, secretary
of the Master Builders association,
and c.. G: Smith, president; J. c.; Mel
son, secretary and Harvey Wilson, j.
H. Wemon and D.. H. Murphy, repre-
senting the bricklayers. ~-
John Wunder, one of the contractors
. affected, said yesterday that work
I would be resumed with full crews and
there would be no trouble experienced
in getting men, He will require forty
men on the Tenth avenue pow house
and the oRices OF, the street car COM
Epany y&at Henne epin and Eleventh street.
55# ause of tho Strike.
] The laborers Yno. struck were re-
$lsceiVingS. & day an line hours work
..iETheySd deInan ed cents a1 hour and
he union E'orHa time