The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-23
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Essex Trades Council VIII
Consider Butchers Fight
Over Charter.

lIOuDlt UGlWCGH l1O(Aio 4Sosp : oAtN
1874 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workmen of North
America.
The trouble arose over the action OF
Local No. 422 sending representatives
to New York to attend a meeting OF
the Brotherhood of Butcher Workmen5
a dual organization, which is antag-
onistic to the ~Amalgamated ~organiza-T
ton. Local No. 1874 reported the mat
ter to the general officers of their or
ganization. and the result was that
Local No. i22 was notified that it's
charter was revoked, first. because 1t
was in arrears for per capita tax and,
secondly, for violating section ? Of
article 4 of the constitution. which says.
Local union who shall in any way
usurp the authority of the general
executive board or affiliate with any
dual organization its charter shall be
revoked"
william C. Wellman, an organizer
OF the Amalgamated organization, was
instructed to take the charter away
from Local 422, but he has not been
able to 90 so, for the officers of the
local refuse to give IL up.
Local No. 394 held a meeting in the
New Auditorium last night for the
purpose of receiving members OF Local,
No. 4s2, but none of them, it Is said,
came. Instead. a delegation of No.
422 went to the place to demand q.
hearing, which was refused them.
The arbitration committee of the Es-i
sex Trades Council. composed of Henry
F. Hilfers, John Roach. William Um-
staedter and Richard Armstrong also
attended the meeting for the purpose
of learning what the real trouble was,
but they were also refused admissions
The meeting was in charge of the
officers of Harrison Local No. 1894, he
personnel of which is N. Lcyhtan. pres
ident; f. Walter, vice-president; w.
! Weller. secretary, and Henry Johnson,
financial secretary. After the meeting:
had been called to order Mr.. Wellman
delivered a lengthy address, in which.
he stated that he was in receipt from
the national union of a copy of a letter
sent to the secretary of Local No. Az
In which that organization was advised
that the charter had been revoked. In
the light of this letter, he said, he could
not recognize Local Nc. 422 as a body,
and that the only way the members
could or would gain access to the meet
ing. so long as he was there. was by in-
dividually making application for menu
bership in Harrison Local No. 1874,
which, he said, he was authorized by
the national union to place in full
charge of the affairs in the city of New
ark until such a time as the local had
been recruited to sufficient strength to
admit of its disintegration into other
locals. sats #
Under the regime he proposed, Har-
rison Local No. 1914 was to receive and
- -~- tba onpIirafion of all meat
cutters. bologna and sausage Makers
carriers. killers and wool pullers, ard
that it was tho duty of the local to
keep out all who had affiliated with he
organization known as the Butchers
brotherhood of New York, of which
John p. Kennedy was the head.
Mr.. Wellman asked the president to,
appoInt a committee to meet him at the
Pennsylvania station Mt 5 o'clock Sunday
morning to make the rounds and see that
the Sunday closing was carried out. He
declared he would produce In court Mon
day morning every butcher whose shop
was open. and that he had employed a Arm
of lawyers to prosecute what he styled the
"bulldozers." A committee composed Of
Messrs. Smith, Roner. Wilson. Fisher and
Doerhein was appointed to cooperate with
Wellman.
AS he left the meeting Mr.. Wellman was
met by the arbitration committee of the
Essex Trades Council, who criticised him
on his position ON the Fink strike, declared
by Local No. APO. After declaring that he
did not recognize the strike, as the charter
Of Local No. 422 had been revoked by the
national union, Wellmdn declared:
Il am going to Paterson and Passaic to
get men to take the places of the strik-
ers.'
When asked If the national union would
countenanee his action in getting Amalga-
mated workers as strike breaker
Wellman declared that as far as he and
the national union were concerned that
there was no strike of Amalgamated works
ers. When asked further If 1t was Well
man or the national union who was acting
in the premises In the strike situation he
said that as organizer of the national
union that he was going to fill the places
of the strikers.
When the arbitration committee further
called his attention to the fact that the
secretary of local No. APO denied having res
ceived a copy of the letter revoking the
charter and alleged TO be dated Oc-
tober 10, but had received a letter from
the headquarters In Syracuse dated Oc-
tober u notifying him that the local WAS
two months In arrears with their dues.
Wellman was silent. All he had to
say was that due notice of the revoking
OF the charter OF local No. 422 would be
received by the Essex Trades Council be-
fore the next meeting of that body.
Pursuant TO his election from the meet
ing by Wellman and the refusal Of.
the organizer to admit the members OF
Local No. 422 to the meeting, Secretary
Hilfers issued a call for a special meet
ing of the Essex Trades Council to he
held Saturday night, at which time a,
representative from the Syracuse head
quarters of the National Union win be
present and the matter OF the revoking
Of the charter of Local No. 422 and the
conduct of Mr.. Wellman will be taken up.
Hilfers said today that the Essex Trades
Council will stand by the members of local
422 and show that Mr.. Wellman's action
is high-handed and entirely uu1ustif1abla
from either the standpoint of unionism or
honorable dealing with the employer.
Instead of going to Paterson and Passa1c
today Mr.. Wellman remained in this city
long enough to insert an advertisement III
the EVENING STAR calling for fifty
meat cutters to take the places of the
strikers at A. Fink & Sons shop, and also
al the Schickhaus Company shop, who
went on strike last Monday morning,
Wellman says that the men mad no right
TO 20 on strike without reporting the mat
ter to him first.
Hilfers received a letter from Homer u.
Call, secretary and treasurer of the Anal
gamated Meat Cutters, stating that Well
man had no right to make public tha
orders tl.at he had received from general
officers in regard to Local NO. Az