Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13
COMBINING TO
SETTLE DISPUTE
Contractors and Dealers in Ma
teriaI Unite.
LOCAL BUILDING TROUBLES
Drastic Measures Proposed to Bring
About Harmony.
EFFECTS OF THE AGITATION
Building Trades Alliance Calls Off
Men Employed With Non-Union-
+. lists on Construction.
EFFECTS OF THE AGITATION

A statement made to a Star reporter this
afternoon on excellent authority is to the
effect that remedy for the existing condi-
lions, as affecting the local building indus
try, Is imperative. Drastic action Is there
fore proposed by the building contractors,
the master builders and the business men in
the District who supply building material
to bring about a settlement Of the existing
trouble in the building trades. II it is
deemed to be necessary, the supplies of
lumber, lime, brick and other materials will
be entirely cut off, which will cause gen.
eral shutting down of all erecting work in
the District, thus locking out many hun
dreds of building mechanics.
eve do not propose to allow building
matters to be turned upside down and to
continue topsy-turvy as they are at
and have been Tor some pine, tine
ests in the District are being jeopardized
and injured by the constant chickering's
and walkouts, and we propose to re-
store harmony II we have to cut of all
building supplies and shut down work
on every structure in course Of erection
in the District of Columbia. This matter
must he settled once for all. and the
present is as good time as any to act"
Men Ordered Out.
While the building contractors, master
builders and material men were discussing
this proposed drastic program this fore
noon, the Strengthening subcommittee Of
the Building Trades Alliance met at Cos
tello's Hall and proceeded to the buildings
being erected by Middaugh & Shannon on
Park street, near the Soldiers Home, and
called off from their work the bricklayers,
tile roofers, metal workers and metal
fathers.
The committee claimed that not only nom
union plumbers were at work on the build
ings, but that non-union carpenters and
painters were at work there. 1t was ar
ranged that the 'straightening-out COM
mittee" would meet again this afternoon
and decide whether to call out mechanics
who are working on other structures with
non-unionists.
Now that the governing board of the
Employers Association has taken hand
in the controversy with the proposition ito
meet force with force" as one of them ex-
pressed it, and bring cbout an entire
cessation of erecting work unless there
can be readjustment of the difficulties,
it is declared the tangled skein will soon
be unraveled and harmonious relations
restored.
The situation as presented today found
the master builders, the building contract
ors and the men who furnish building ma
terial Of all kinds almost so,idly arrayed
against the building trades.
Conferences Called.
Several conferences have been talked of
as result 1t Is said a committee of car
penters will meet committee Of master
builders at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon at
the master builders hall. 14th and g streets.
to discuss the outlook. 1t Is also said there
will probably be conference between the
building trades committee and COMMITTEES
of the building contractors Wednesday
evening.
J But perhaps the most important Of these