Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-11
PRIOE ONE GENT
A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM.
CONFRONTS THE BUILDING
TRADES COUNCIL.
Matters Of Utmost Importance To
Come Up At Union Mass
Meeting Tonight.

particularly lively meeting of the
Building Trades Council is promised
for tonight. lt is to be a union mass
meeting in which all members of
unions showing the card of the Build
lug Trades Council will be given an
opportunity TO participate. Just what
action will be taken in the matters
which are now of the utmost import.
ance 70 the members of the council
cannot be conjectured, but certain il
is that something very drastic will
have 20 be done in matter where
combative spirit has been shown by
one side to controversy.
IL is hoped by those who have the
interest of the Building Trades Coun-
Gil at heart that such action can be
taken as will be suitable to the other
parties to the controversy AS far as
could be learned by the Capital the
officers of the Council have taken
stand which they are forced to by the
very plain laws of its organization.
One of the principal matters which
will come up for discussion and settle
ment Is the old one pertaining 10 the
bricklayeTs.
The rules of the Building Trades
Council expressly state that no mem
ber of union affiliated with tne
Building Trades Council can work
with workmen in the building trades
who do not hold card of the Build
ing Trades Council. Members of the
Council, have, however, been work
ing with other than members and it is
hoped by this meeting TO arrive at
some amicable conclusion by which
this condition can be remedied.
A union known as that of the Brick
layers, Masons and Plasterers is very
strong in Annapolis. 1t is not affiliated
with the Building Trades Council and
many efforts have been made TO secure
its utilization. Thus far there has
been no success. Another element
which further jeopardizes the chances
of securing its affiliation is the fact
that there is a plasterer' union aflil-
lated with the Council.
If the above mentioned union did
decide to enter the Building Trades
Council, it would now have to give up
one-third of its charter, that portion
having to do with the plasterers. It
could not retain them as an intergai
part of its union while there is in ex-
istence a union which is composed Of
plasterers. It would have to give up
its plasterer members TO the regular
plasterer's union in order to secure
affiliation with the Building Trades
Council. This, it is said, the union of
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers re-
fuses to do.
On the other hand the plasterers
affiliated with the Building Trades
Council cannot, according to the rules
and laws of the supreme body, work
with the other plasterers who are
members of the Bricklayers, Masons
and Plasterer's Union. The affiliated
plasterers are receiving 81 per day
more than is called for by the scale of
those in the outside union and this, il
is hoped, will have great weight in
inducing the affiliation.
1t is claimed that the plaster mem
bers who are represented by delegates
to tho Building Trades Council are
technically violating the rules of their
union and also that of the Building
Trades Council by working with the
union plasterers who are not affiliated
with the union. Every effort is to be
made to overcome this difficulty and
failing in this serious contingencies
are sure to arise.
The carpenter members Of the Build
ing Trades Council are very much
averse to any drastic measures being
duOpbeu CdlCuldbSu 10 DO lulu1lChDlo W
the interests of the union Of Brick
layers, Masons and Plasterers. IL has
even been stated by those who know
that should any drastic step be taken
the carpenters will cease their afiilia-
tion with the. Building Trades Council
1t can be plainly seen that a very
serious problem confronts the mem
bers of the unions affiliated with the
Building Trades Council to be disposed
of tonight. On the result Of their de-
liberations hinges the very existence
of organized labor in this locality.