The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-11
LABOR GRAFT BEATS POLICE,
SAYSJEROME, TELLING or UNION
CLUB STRIKE.

Ruined II, He SAys-Pafks LVeoeu
with Money the Day Aldermen Decided
10 Stop Holding Up the Pennsyavahia
Tunnel "in the Interest or Labor"
New Arrest on ExtOrtion Charge
Isaac A. Hopper's Son Accuses Richard
CarveI, Delegate Of the Derricknsen.
Describing the settlement Of the Union
Club building strike for cash District A.
torney Jerome said yesterday that police
graft" about which he has long been reck-
oned an expert, il not In 1t with labor
graft" as disclosed by the inquiries he has
been carrying on into strikes In the building
trades. He wants this history published ..
widely as possible 40 that the individual
workmen, who have been striking at the
walking delegates whistle and going back
at his nod, can see how the game Ia worked.
That the Union Club, of which MIR. Jsrome
is a member and the contractors engaged
in building its new home in Fifth avenue.
were compelled to give up a good deal OF
money to labor agitators last year whom The
clubhouse was being finished has been
matter of rumor for many months. Ono Of
the first things that Mr.. Jerome did when
the methods OF the walking delegates were
brought to his attention was to try to get
to the bottom OF this story.
CASH no SETTLE UNION CLUB Strike.
.In the fall Of 1907" he said yesterday,
the Amalgamated Painters and Decora.
tors Union, which was represented In the
Board Of Building Trades Board OF Walk
ing Dele gates] made demand for increased
wages and shorter hours for the mon
employed by the contractors doing work on
the Union Club building. The employers
refused the demands and strike followed.
-The employers, most Of them cabinet
| makers and decorators, then got together
and tried to devise some way by which
| the work could be finished. They finally
decided that the best way would be to build
| I'D the Brotherhood of Painters and Deco
| rators which is a national association, and
| at that time was practically non-existent Ia
| this city. But they knew that after 1t Wa
| built UP row would follow any attempt
on their part to put its men to work BE-
| cause It was not represented In the Board
! Of Building Trades. A general strike on
! their other work would, OF course, follow
any such attempt on their part to employ
| the Brotherhood men.
BOUGHT WAY INTO BUILDING rRADEs
sThey decided that It was absolutely me-
ceesary to get the Brotherhood represented
| in the Board Of Building Trades. The
president OF the Brotherhood. j. c. BAIL
horn OF Lafayette, Ind, came on here to
talk the matter over with the employers
and agreed, on behalf Of the brotherhood,
to subscribe q 800 to . fund to be used
| to pay the proper people to get the Brother
hood represented in the board. After
this offer had been made, a high ofdcer
Of the employers association, one OF the
leading cabinet makers In this town. took
each one Of the seventeen employers In
terested aside and got each one to agree
to pay $3.50 toward this fund which was
to be used to get tho Brotherhood ON the
board should say that fifteen OF the
seventeen employers agreed to do this.
The other two positively refused to give
up a cent Of blaokmail money.
AT this Same time the Union Club ITSELF
contributed sum which shall not name
to this same fund. The entire money
was handled by one Of the head cabinet
makers and by construction company IN
this city. Most Of the money was PAID
to these handlers in checks.
| About this time the officers OF the
Brotherhood notified the employers that
| they would have to withdraw their oner
to pay S2,5Oo toward the fund, because the
reason for the expenditure would have toioe
entered on their books and as a Brother
hood election was approaching the fact
that they had spent money In this way
might be used aga inst the officers, all OF
whom were candidates for reelection.
This made it necessary to raise the money
in some other way; 50 each OF tho fifteen
employers consented to give up 500 moro,
making $3.50 from each man.
| FIVE WALKING DELEGATES GOT THE MoNUy.
This $780, besides the amount sob
scribed by the Union Club, (althoush
Mr.. Jerome would not tell the amount
a published report puts the whole
fund at about S17,0o0l was turned ovsr
TO five walking delegates, all voting Nom.
beers of the Board Of Building Trades. Tho
result was the admission Of the Brotherhood
to the board and, Of course, the running OF
the Arnalgamated Union. many OF whose
members rushed head over heels to eet
into the Brotherhood when they saw how
the tide had turned.
! LOCAL PAINTERS UNION SOLD out.
This was a deliberate selling out Of .
| labor union ny WdihH8 ucic6nVor' AnO
Amalgamated strike came to an end at once
and a complete victory was won by the
employers.
| SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND.
| @The names OF the Ave walking delegates
| will not give out at this time. The names
Of the firms which gave up $3.50 each are ~
| follows:
william Baumgarton. a2a Fifth avenue;
| D. s. Hess Il Co., AL Fifth avenue; the Hay
den Company. $40 Fifth avenue: Potter d
| Styn,us, as Lexington avenue; Herts Bros
! sol Fifth avenue; Kimball Sons. s2sFlfth
avenue Alard 4 Sons. 4s7 Fifth avenue;
! L. D. Middleton. iGo Fifth avenue Lowen.
ben Sons, 1873 Fifth avenue: Newman
Co., s7S Fifth avenue; lIerter Co.. 80? Firth
| avenue; W. 4 j Sloane. Sls Broa d~ay the
Tiffany Studio 233 Fourth avenue: Peter
| Tauchardan, l73 Clinton street Brooklyn.
MY information on this matter is abso-
| lutely authentic. Whether or not there Is
a criminal side, remains to he seen. II 1t
can be shown that this money was paid to
the walking delegates as initiation fee and
was turned in to the board, why there Ia
| nothing criminal about It. But If this
money went into the hands of the walking