The San Francisco call., 1903-01-15
META ROOFERS
ARE INDIGNANT
J
Say That P. H. Mccarthy
Has Deserted Their
Cause.
Claim He Is Now Arrayed
Against Roofing
Ordinance.

There is a storm brewing in labor circles
between p II. Mccarthy and his asso-
ciates on q committee recently appointed
by the Building Trades Council to oppose
the proposed roofing ordinance on one side
and the master and journeymen metal
roofers on the other A special committee
of the Board of Supervisors, consisting of
Supervisors Brandenstein. Loughery and
Wilson, will meet at the Mayors office
this afternoon at 2 O'Clock to consider the
various phases of the proposed ordinance
which is being fathered by the metal roof
ers in general and Martin Hughes in par
ticular. Hughes was appointed with p.
II. Mccarthy by the late L. j. Dwyer,
who was a member of the last Board OF
Supervisors, to draft an ordinance COW
ering the roofing question within the fire
limits. Hughes claims that Mccarthy
acted with him for several months, but
recently the latter took a change of heart
! on the roofing question and is now op-
posed to any ordinance which has for its
object the stimulation of the metal roof
ing business
TVEITMOE WRITES LETTER.
AT a recent meeting the Building Trades
Council appointed Mccarthy o. A. Tveit-
moe and Treasurer John McDougaId. who
| is a member of the Marble Cutters
Union, a committee to state the Council 5
attitude on the proposed roofing ordi-
| nance. The following letter, which was
mailed to each member of the Board of
Supervisors by o. A. Tveitmoe, secretary
of the Building Trades Council, has
caused considerable indignation among
the metal roofers and when the matter
is taken UP at the Mayors office to-day
lively times are expected:
January 12 1908.
Dear Sir: Pursuant to instructions of the
Building Trades Council of San Francisco.
beg to call your attention to the fact that "a
few employed by somebody and claiming
by resolution and otherwise the support of GER
tain unions engaged in the building business.
members of your honorable body notoriousy
designed amendment with a view to supple
menting II for the original clause In the build
Ing ordinance pertaining to roofing, in which
he shuts out everything within the fire limits,
unless it be metal, slate. tile or terra Gotta.
giving complete monopoly a very small
coterie of employers to the exclusion of the
thousands who have been and are now COM
petitors in that line of business as the car
penters dealing with shingled roofs and the
felt and composition roofers. who have a ali
! times and places, both within and beyond the
fire limits, participated in this work, but whom
this proposed amendment would completely
annihilate and place the small property holder
| in the grasp of what might be well called
| the most complete trust instituted. thus
preventing the thousands OF smaH property
holders within such district from improving
their holdings and forcing them to sell out in
favor of the more wealthy purchaser of such
| property; hence the danger to the poor man.
The Building Trades Council unanimously
condemns said change, and request that you
and the other members of your honorable
| board adopt the ordinance or that part Of =
submitted by the committee said committee
| being composed of architects. builders and
I 1ourneyrnen mechanics from many departments
| OF the building Industry. Very sincerely and
respectfully yours. o. A. TVEITMOE.