Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-22
new | LABOR 4! council
Division ii Rautsof the Local
Wage Farmers.
ORDER OF eEXPULSION
ACTION TAKEN BY THE CENTRAL
LABOR UNION.
Seven Organizations to Participate, It
is Said, in Forming Building
Trades Council.

trades Council.
The statement was made by prominent
labor leader this afternoon that steps will
be taken at the meeting called for this
evening by the Central Labor Union. at
Typographical Temple, to form council
of building trades entirely independent of
the present central body.
Il know" said the labor leader. that
the delegates from seven of the building
trades organizations have been instructed
by those bodies to form the proposed inde-
pendent association. The premature action
of the Central Labor Union last night in
expelling the steam filters has caused revo-
luton and a most chaotic condition in 10
cal labor ranks"
Steam Filters Expelled.
The local union of steam filters was ex-
PEELED from the Central Labor Union at it's
regular weekly meeting last night, in ac-
cordance with the demand of the American
Federation of Labor, made through. Presi-
dent Samuel Gompers The failure of the
central body to obey the order sooner re-
suited in the revocation of its charter. and
since its last meeting it has been operating
as a charterless body.
The trouble with the offending organiza-
ton, the steam filters union, is not of local
origin, but the general organization Of
steam filters. 1t resulted from one of the
jurisdictional fights which have been the
cause of so much trouble and concern to the
American Federation Of Labor.
1t Is stated that the plumbers and gas
tiers organization to amalgamate with
them In what is known as the Plumbers,
Gas Filters and Steam Filters and Their
Helpers Union" This the steam filters as
q uyh To 1o nc
dictional fight was the result. The matter
was carried before the Federation of Labor
at the Boston convention. q little over one
year ago, and decision was rendered by
that body declaring that the steam filters
should merge their association into that of
the plumbers and gas filters. Many of the
steam filters unions have declined to do
this and have maintained a national Or
ganiZatlon of their own.
Federation Takes a Hand.
The officers of the federation have been
endeavoring to whip the recalcitrants into
line" as a leader expressed it, and the
recalcitrants decline to be so driven and
have put up a fight against the federation
and several of the, largest Central Labor
Unions in this country, so that the con-
test here has been duplicated in St. Louis,
Chicago and other big cities.
THE result will be- said a Washington
steam filter, that our organization and sew
eTdl VI Tie OtIeI important DulluiIS TRACES
will join forces with the Structural Trades
Alliance, which is an opponent of the Fed
Grafton of Labor and it's contributory
bodies, the Central Labor Unions in all the
big cities, and you will see large and thrifty
alliances spring up all over the country"
After a stormy debate last night at the
meeting of the Central Labor Union, 1t is
said, the expulsion ofsthe steam filters was
accomplished by the following resolution,
which was adopted by a more than two
thirds vote of "a to %: LID
Resolved, That in accordance with the
instructions received from the American
Federation of Labor we expel the steam
filters organization from the central body
with profound regret, in order to MAIN
tain the trade-union movement of the Dis
trict and keep it intact
This means according to a prominent
member of the central body, that the
building trades section has been beaten in
it's fight by what is known as 1.-The mis-
cellaneous trades section.
President Gompers Advised.
Following this action a telegram was
promptly sent to President Gompers at San
Francisco, where he is attending the annual
session of the Federation of Labor, In
| forming him of the action of the Central
Labor Union in expelling the offending
| steamfitters. This dispatch, it is expected
| will be followed by the restoration of the
| charter of the central body. 1t was an
| nounced last night, following the expulsion
| that there would be a meeting of the build
| ing trades tonight at Typographical Tenn
| pie for the purpose of considering the
action taken by the central body last night
| and Ito lay plans for the future" as a
| bricklayer stated it. That the bodies COM
| posing the Council of Allied Building
| Trades will decide at the meeting tonight
| to secede from the Central Labor Union
| and the Federation of Labor is believed by
several prominent members of the building
| trades.
| If the allied council should go out in a
| body, as declared, the following unions will
cut loose from the Central Labor Union:
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, No.
5; Carpet Workers. No. So; Electrical Work
ers No. 26, l. B. E. W.; Elevator Construc-
| tors. No. 10; Engineers, Hosting, No. II, l.
OF A.; Granite Cutters, Washington Branch
N. u; Hold Carriers and Building Laborers,
No. 81, B. l.. l. u; Hold Carriers and Build
| ing Laborers. No. 49, B. L, I. u; Latfers,
No. o. W., w. and NJ. L. /. u; Machinists,
Washington Lodge, No. 193 I. A. M; Pipe
Coverers No. 1925, A. F. of L.. Sheet Metal
Workers, No. lO2. A. s. M. w 1. A; Slate
tiers, L. B. No. 10, N. A; Steam Filters
Helpers, L. B. No. %, N. A; Tile Layers,
No. 2, c. NJ. and E. T. L. L. u; Tile LAYERS
Helpers, No. II, c. M. and E. T. L. 1. u
Alleged Violation Of Law.
A report was received from the legislative
committee of the Central Labor Union at
the meeting last night that evidence had
been secured that at least two contractors
engaged on government work In Washing
ton were violating the eight-hour law The
body authorized the committee to take legal
action against the contractors, who are said