The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

! the Building Trades Council, with which
the Bricklayers' union is affiliated, asked
for conference with the Master Builders
association yesterday afternoon. The
situation was again gone over thoroly but
without reaching any compromise.
The committee from the Building Trades
council admitted, in response to questions
put by H. N. Leighton, president of the
association, that the council had refused
to admit or otherwise recognize the build
ing Laborers' union because it had in
vestigated the subject in the east and
most fruitful source Of trouble between
unions and contractors.
It was the wish of the building Trades
Council however, to, avoid a sympathetic
strike and on this account it's committee
! urged the contractors to make some sort
Of concession to the building laborers'
union, so that the committee might take
before the bricklayers' union last night
some argument which would at least post
pone the crisis.
The contractors could not see their way
clear to recognizing a union which the
Building Trades Council, composed of the
| building trades unions of the city, would
not recognize, and the strike this morn
ing followed. "
@ Other Trades Affected.
That 1t will be a long and probably bit
say that they can ge plenty Of work in
other cities, Butte, Mont, for instance.
| The contractors say that lot Of the
striking men will go hungry this winter.
The conditions Of this morning cannot
obtain without eventually causing the
stonemasons, carpenters. structural iron
| workers and other building trades men to
lose work, because on all the buildings in
volved the brick work will have to be
| finished soon If the rest Of the work
! goes on. .-. =. :
All the buildings on which the strike
was declared were picketed with strikers
this morning but no trouble occurred.
No Strike Clause In v. S. Contract.
! Altho several of the minor contra ct orr
have signed the union scale presented by
the Building Laborers union, the six con
tractors, or contracting firms who hav,
refused to do so and who are directly af
fected by the, strike, are in charge o
nearly 80 per cent of the building nov
being done in Minneapolis.
In one instance only Is any Of them II
danger of suffering from the strike be
cause of the absence Of strike claus
in his contract. H. N. Leighton, who ha.
the contract for the federal building i'm
proven ents, has no strike clause in hi
contract with the government, becaus
the government does not make contract
that way. ..-ss
DuI ~ 10 pO1ALSu OuI ClldL TreSlQen
Roosevelts order extending the Miller rul
ing to all departments, in compliance wit
the principle laid down by the anthracit
coal strike commission, that mo perso
shall be refused employment or In an
way disseminated against on account Q
membership or non membership in an
labor organization" will probably have tn
!, effect on the local situation of giving tn
contractor on the federal building consid
erable leeway should he be materially EN-
barrassed by the present strike.
Altho the bricklayers strike will della
the finishing Of the high brick wall aroun
, the new state university athletic field
patrons Of the sport of football will no
suffer thereby. The contractor has agree
to put up as substitute a board fenc
If the brick wall Is not ready when tn
season opens.