Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-07
20 CARPENTERS
 CO ON STRIKE
Douglas Mechanics Object to Methods of Contractor and Leave Work on Douglas Catholic Church-0ther Firm Lets Out All Its Union Men and Says Will Proceed With Non- Union Employees.

According to statement of W. G, Queen this morning about twenty car
 penters, members of the local carpen- ter's union are idle today because of friction which arose between Contrac- tor c. D. Parsons and the union men working for him on the new Catholic
 church, All the men who were work ing for Parsons, including those in his jobbing shop, quit work because MT
 Parsons discharged carpenter named Hatcher who had Insisted on the fore
 man discharging man who was shingiing on the church and who was not a member of the local carpenters union. MT Parsons was away when the man was stopped from shi1glins and on his return he insisted on the righ. to hire whom he pleased to dc
 his work and this led to waik-out oi
 the carpenters.
 As soon as this incident was report ed to the other contractors in the city | it was evident that there would be a clash with the local union if an attempt
 was made to enforce the closed shoT on carpenter work in this city. Here tofore the "open shop" has prevailed in Douglas so far as carpenters were concerned It looks now very much like the battle was on and should the union insist on the closed shop the probability is that the future condition will be a closed shop" to members of the local union. That was the pre-
 diction of one of the contractors to
 day who declared that he was tired of having his business run by other people and that from this time on non
 union carpenters would do his work Parsons Statement.
 The following is the statement oi Mir. Parsons made last night, accord ing to the Dispatch:
 T put a man to work on the par sonage of the Catholic church to dc the shingling. This is work the car penters won't do. 1 left for Mocte
 yuma a week ago and upon my return
 today I was greatly surprised to fln6
 that nothing had been done and tn;
 building was no nearer ready for the plasterers than when l left.
 Upon investigation I learned tha
 the union objected to his working anC
 the foreman, Ardisson, discharged him
 When asked who objected to his work ing a man by the name of Hatche said, I'm the man who objected to hii working I told him to come to thu | office and get his money.
 "He came and all the force working
 on the church came with him. The! also went down to the Watts building | and pulled the men of the work there
 They came to the office and I wrote ou | the checks.
 | Tt has been the custom with me t put anyone on the roof doing shinglint
 work that I could get and there wa
 no objection ever raised before.
 however, learned that they have mad, | rules that no one but a union man cal
 do this work, but I was not aware O this. What incensed me was tha 1 they took this man of and did not pu another on in his stead. causing de lay and putting me behind.
 Paddock Brothers.
 M. G. Paddock, of Paddock Brothers stated this morning that it was trut
 that he had paid of the union men wht were working for him in the city ,'T took this action because of tn,
 walk-out of the men on the contract
 held by Mir. Parsons. do not antici
 pate any trouble in getting non-uniol men to carry on the contracts whicl
 hold, and so far as I am concernet