The sun., 1903-07-02
OWNING AWALKING DELEGATE
"GOOD BUSINESS" TO BE ABLE
=. lTO DICTATE STRIKES, ,u.,
III You're C0nst rueuion Company and Need
Strikes 10 Improve Your Own Business
or Damage pctsdors--Where Does
tho "Po0r Workingman'' Come In?

So ''AS NA'y CT tiO RtUpVht thAVi "o~D'Na"h "
the best informed persons, has been lak a
the door OF certain construction companies
OF this city, which have found it "goot
busineps" to have the services Of a power
ful walking delegate Of the Sam Parkl
type at their disposal
A great mass of information concerning
construction companies has been put II
the hands Of Mr. jerome by contractors
and builders who have suffered from the
good business methods" mentioned. Mr.
Jerome says that this Information reveals
an amazing condition Of affairs, and that 1t
is his intention, in the coming John Doe
inquiry, to get to the bottom Of them II
possible. To do this he will have to sub
poena the officers of construction compan-
les to learn il they have carried Sam Parks
and other walking delegates on their pay
rolls. A
1t was the George A. Fuller company that
brought Sam Parks to New York from Chi
cago. In Chicago he WAS known as fighter
and mighty handy man for an employer OF
labor to have on his side in any labor dis
pute that might arise In New York, Parks
worked az a foreman for the Fuller COM
pany FOR short time, and then secured
tho place that his enemies say he really
came to New York to get; that Of Walking
delegate for the Housssmiths and Bridge
mems Union. Parks's power stree he got
that placs Is only too well known to EN-
plQyers Of labor In this city,
In all recent labor troubles the Fuller
company has stosd the friend Of Parks.
When Parks struck a snag in Niels Poulson.
the president Of the Hecla Iron Works in
Brooklyn, and found that there was no dis
position on the part Of that sturdy man to
buy peace, It was the Fuller company that
requested Mr.. PoulsOn to meet Parks in
Its Manhattan Office and talk over the settle-
ment OF the Hecla strike with him. 1t
was In the Office of the Fuller company
that Poulson and Parks met, and Parks,
finding that he couldn't get a cent out OF
the ironmaster, either for waiting time !"
or for anything else, stormed about the
Office, calling Mr., Poulson vile names and
applying to him every insulting epithet in
his voluminous vocabulary. Parks through
out this entire interview, according to Mr..
Poulson, acted as though the Fuller Office
was his office, and appeared to be on terms
Of the utmost intimacy with the Fuller
officials, In addressing President Samuel
Mcconnell of the Fuller company Parks
always calls him Sam" Mr.. McCon-
nell never objects.
Finally when Parks did get check for
$1,000 from the Hecla people, it was cashed
for him by an officer OF the Fuller compsny,
and he walked out OF the eompany's office
always loudly proclaimed his friendly rela-
tions with the Fuller company, and 1t has
been noted that labor troubles on the
Fuller work have always come when they
were a matter Of comparatively srihing
Inconvenience. Y,t
What Mr. Jerome seeks TO iinti out is, Who
started the evil custom Of corrupting the
walking delegates? Much of the evidence
which he has procured on this point no has
declined to reveal, but he has freely talked
In gensral way OF the charges laid at the
doors Of certain construction companSes.
All sorts OF talk has come to Mr.. jerome
to- the effect that one big construction
company in this city owns outright one
of the most powerful Of the walking dele
gates, through whom it has strikes de-
cared on its own work and the work of It's
competitors whenever II wants to. There
are times when strike is mighty handy
thing for a construction company. IL
it is behind in its contract work and would
have to pay big penalties, it can have
it's walking delegate declare a strike to
save 1t. There are strike clauses In all
building contracts, and a strike sometimes
saves Big losses in penalties,
There are times, too, when there is need
Of every available workman in the build
ing trades, to hurry work to a finish. At
such times a construction company that
owns a walking delegate can have him de-
clare a strike on rival builder in order TO
get the men engaged on his work for itself
At other times, when work IL dull and the
construction company finds 1t inconvenent
TO carry its usual number Of men on it's
payrolls, 1t can have a strike declared to
save this expense.
II MIR. Jerome can prove that such state
Of things exists he believes 1t will put an
end to the walking delegate graft for some
time. Apart from questions directly oon-
cerning prosecuting officer ay such, he be-
lieves that II he can show the laboring man
how he has been ordered out Of work and
back to work again just as often as IL has
suited a corrupt walking delegate and a
corrupting construction company, he will
put an end to one of the greatest evils of
the present system OF conducting labor
unions.
The Fuller company, mentioned in one of
the earlier paragraphs OF this story is not a
member Of the Building Trades Employers
Association which is at present conducting
the fight against corrupt walking delegates
in this city. From time to time, when en-
blowers have made stand against the un-
reasonable exactions Of labor unions, the
Fuller people have stood with them for
a time ana then broken away. paying the
forfeits that il had been agreed should be
charged to those who gave in to the union
demands.
A detection like that OF the Fuller oom-
pany in the combination OF employers is
naturally q very serious blow to the COM
bination, 80 that employers AZ rule do not
entertain feelings Of the greatest friendli-
ness for the Fuller company. The recent
arrangement between the looked out unions
and the Fuller company Is an illustration
OF how the Fuller people have disassociated
themselves from competing employers OF
labor.
The George A. Fuller company is one
of the companies making up the United
States Realty and Construction Company.
II continues to do an Independent business,
but most Of the stock is. In tho hands OF
the controlling company. It was incor-
porated under the laws OF New Jersey,
April 1, 1901, and is credited with doing an
annual business OF about $50, 100000. OF
the SIS 900 900 OF common stock s10,0OO, 900
is outstanding, and OF the 81, 900 900 preferred
stock all is outstanding. The stock has
a par value OF 500.
The United States Realty and Construc-
tlon Company, which was organized to take
over the greater portion OF the stock OF
the Fuller company and OF the New York
Realty Corporation. holds .0s0 shares OF
the Fuller common stock and 48OsO or the
preferred stock.
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