New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-12
PARKS'S UNION SUSPENDED
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN DOES THE rs KNOCKED
DOH7N and KICKED IN THE FACE.
Local Houmjths Must Drop Pdks Entertainment COMMITTEE
Dogs Neidig Vho Carries a RecolJer.

head Of the international Association Of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers. is as follows;
investigation into the charges and complaints
entered against your organization has led me 20
May l. 1908 betewen the international organization
ufacturers and Ereetors Association, has been
brokeD and violated by the action of your local In
Your organization has called a strike against
members OF the association with whom TINS CON
been disastrous alike your local and to the inter
Enoa Sers dings or disputes
arise between the employer and workman me mat
Yer H 99itso1 rkes iockcats or the stoppase OF
work pending the decision OF the arbitrator. NO
ions az issue between yourselves and YOUR
plcyers sucn totai disregard o. your e9n5racF 81
your o local hut endangers the Internal ional or
ia %b;nb the i,ternatioraI association espouses.
and is alike damaging 10 the rank and ME and IT'S
Further investigation has developed that your or.
ganizaton has attempted to involve other locals OF
EMPLOYERS which would be against the agreement
they nave MIN organizatSn as we'll as trade
unionism in general Such action on your eart lis Is
ton Of the international organization, aud because
they must be made the basis Of action against your
union by the inyerna tions eIgam5a ton ,,r Off
GERS have been guilty Of malieiously false state
ments against the International officers Which si
nus bring the International orEanza ton into dis
repute. and weaken II auke Win ie puDiC anu tLI1
great body of workingmen comprising the member
Shin in the locals of our organization throughout
In addition to all this. YOUR business agent is
Violating the constitution OF your local as well as
tbe constitution of our national organlzation BY
assuming control Of strikes when they should
properly be controlled by your executive board
Won have also allowed your business agents.
they have assumed the AUTHORITY OF so doing
TO secure the discharge OF members OF your orgar-
iZatiOn who not in sympathy with them
While these two latter facts were proper for
action bv YOUR local organization. your failure
10 remedy them has endangered the principles
Of trade unionism. which the international organ
izaiOn pledged to defend. and support, and per-
mitted wrong 20 be perpetTated on memoers OF
our trade union in good standing with their organ
izatiOn.
Nv reason OF the foregoing and the serious con-
sequences which the International organize ton
constrained president Of the Tnterna tional
Association Of Bridge and structural Iron Work
ers. in pursuance OF the mower conferred upO1 me
by Section Of Article VI Of the constitution gov
local suspended. your charter .annulied. and your
rights IN and TO the mem bSrshp In tine Interna-
tiCnsl Association Of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers forfeited
THE ASSAULT OK BUCHANAN.
The assault on Buchanan was the outcome Of a
meeting of the Housesmiths and Brdgemen :
Union, when Buchanan spoke for common sense
and business principles in their fight against the
employers week ago. one Of the officials OF the
interna tIonal association had called out OF
the Wiegand-Cooper Company and the Milliken
Brothers, working in Baltimore. Philadelphia and
Newark. Buchanan charged the official with not
having the authority to order the men out The
lie was passed between Buchanan and Johnston.
who is Parks supporter. at that meeting and it