The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-06
A PERMANENT LABOR COURT.
BUILDING BOSSES PROPOSE A
PLAN or ARBITRATION.

and q Court OF Appeals-Employers
and Men Equally Represent ed-wslk.
Ing Delegates Barred From the Boards
After many conferences the board OF
governors Of the Building Trades En-
ployers' Association made public yesterday
ito plan for dealing with unions and bring
ing about stable conditions in the building
industry. It provides an elaborate scheme
for arbitration OF labor disputes. and while
II recognizes the unions 1t stipulates that the
walking delegate or business agent" shall
not be recognized in any arbitration pro-
oeedings.
The board Of governors. OF which Otto
NJ Eidltz Is president, consists OF three
members OF the executive committee OF
each organization OF employers and the
association.
Copies Of the plan have been sent to the
secretaries of sixty unions In the building
trades. They have been asked to submit
the plan to their respective unions and
communicate the result to William X.
Hertig, secretary Of the board Of governors
The scheme provides for an arbitration
board in each trade, by which all difficulties
in that trade may be adjusted, and also
for general arbitration board. The gen.
eral arbitration board is to be formed as
follows
Each association represented in the Build
ing Trades Employers Association OF the city
Of New York shall elect two arbitrators who
shall serve for not less than six months.
Each union the employers Of which are
represented in the Building Trades En-
ployers' Association shall elect two arbi-
traitors. who shall serve for not less than six
months, and who shall be In the employment
OF a member OF the Building Trades EN- ployers'
Association at the time Of their election.
The arbitrator from the unions shall not
be business agents or members OF any CEN
trail board Of employees.
From this body Of general arbitrators not
less than four. two from the employers
association and two from the employees
unions shall constitute court of appeals.
They shall meet within forty-elght hours
when notified so to do by the general secre-
tary.
The arbitrators from the unions are guar
anteed unemployment by their firm or cor
poration when the special case on which they
have served has been disposed of.
Strikes are not to be ordered against any
member Of the Employers Association. and
no lockout is to be declared before the
general arbitration board for settlement.
Where trades have regular trade arbitra-
ton boards these boards are to be used
as a means Of settlement, with the general
arbitration board as a court Of final resort
before strike or lockout may be ordered.
Before arbitration proceedings are started
complaints will be made to the general
secretary OF the arbitration board. Any
union or any member OF an employers
association may select from all the
general arbitrators tbs persons preferred
as judges, but no general arbitrator can
act in a dispute occurring In the trade he
represents.
Stenographic reports OF the proceedings
are to DO taken, and after few trials prec-
edents will be established and may be
quoted as in courts Of law.
Members OF the Building Trades En-
ployers' Association who were seen last
evening were particularly sore against the
walking delegate. They regard him as
the main obstacle to industrial peace. They
said that while come walking delegates
were probably honest there were others
whose salaries were merely side issue and
whose incomes were derived from methods
akin to those of crooked politicians. They
would not go on record as mentioning
names.
A prominent employer said that investi-
cations were on foot against a well-known
walking delegate with view to bringing
him before the courts.
He also made the statement that big
firm Of employers was being investigated
because of Its alleged crooked methods.
The Board OF Building Trades met for
only twenty minutes yesterday. Sam
Parks Of the Housesmiths and Bridge
mems Union, who swung the meeting
around on Wednesday against a peace
plan, was not there. President Donovan
said ethat only routine matters were dis
cussed.
1t was learned that the Building Material
Drivers Union, which, with the Building
TO leave the board voluntarily, has decided
to stick. Donovan was asked II the board
would expel the union.
How do KNOW he replied. 'The two
unions have been asked to leave the board
and are given until Monday to do 30. What
the board will do on Monday cannot say"
There was talk yesterday OF split in the
board owing to the forming Of the Parks
and Donovan factions.
The Housesmiths, Bridgeme and Struct-
ural Ironworkers' Union held a mass
meeting last night at Maennerchor Hall,
Fifty-sixth street near Third avenue, at
which Walking Delegate Sam Parks, ac-
cording to the official report Of the meeting,
was Endorsed. Parks made a statement
later in which he said:
Il am man who is instructed to pull on
strike every job in the city If I want to.
but don't want to interfere with the settle
ment Of the building tie-up.
4You can safely say that the ironworkers
won't accept the arbitration plan of the
Building Trades Employers Association"
Parks said that the design Of the en-
ployers was to do away with the walking
delegates. He was not responsible, he
said, for the action OF the Board of Building
Trades on Wednesday, as he had not even
a vote.
A member OF the board OF governors Of
the Building Trades Employer Association
was asked last night il walking delegate
would be accepted a. arbitrator II he came
as plain member Of the union. He replied
in the negative. and said that II the unions
wanted to continue paying walking dele
gates It was their own affair.
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