Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-07

under the same contracts ana award 70
which the Allied Building Trades and the
Master Builders Association were parties.
as well as Local Union No. and the Mas
ter Plumbers Association. that no strike
or lockout could be declared without hrst
submitting the grievance or matter IN con-
troversy to the consideration of and for set
Element by the joint conference committee
of the Master Plumbers Association ana
Local Union No. B., as provided for IN Ar
ticle " in the contract Of April Il, 1903.
He also ruled that the award of the board
of arbitration prohibited a strike or lock-
out for any cause arising because OF any
difference between the two parties to the
arbitration, or the. members thereof. WITH
out prior submission to the joint confer
ence committee and as the union and non
union shop was strictly condition arising
from the arbitration, all parties should
maintain good faith" In the matter.
Copies of the resolution were forwarded to
James L. Marshall of the Master Builders
Association of the District of Columbia, IN
corporated. and Charles A. Langley OF ING
Original Master Builders Association ior
their ratification. and through them 70 the
building trades, as both the master ouuo-
ers' associations and the building trades are
members to the agreement 70 4hora,ors
bound by the decision and findings OF the
arbitration board and the joint conference
committee.
Regard Matter as Settled.
Thus has been settled. as far as the Mas
ter Plumbers Association can settle. most
stubborn fight between the master plumb
ers and the journeymen. The lockout was
declared March 3. 1906. and for fifteen
months there has been most stubborn
contest. The men were locked out for re-
peated violations of q contract which they
had with the Master Plumbers Association.
and which does not expire until the nrst
Tuesday in September. 1908. They endeav-
ofed to organize the helpers and apprentices
into q union and compel them to have work
ing cards: also closed the books OF reg1stra-
ton and did not provide sufficient number
of boys to comply with their contract. To
interpretations of the shop rules, the master
plumber objected. with the result that the
lockout was declared
The Master Plumbers Association has
kept. and proposes to keep. all agreements
and to live up to every article of the award
of the board Of arbitration and the decision
of the umpire and conference committee, de-
spite the absolutely untrue statement made
in the Sunday press that we have failed to
abide by the decision Of Judge De Lacy.
There was abso utely no pledge made by the
Master Plumbers Association Ito clear their
shops of non-union men during the next
twenty-four hours" and the statement Is
absolutely untrue. The Master Plumbers
Association asks for no fayors. but they
propose to live up to the terms of this
award and to run union non-union
the terms of the award. In this position
they believe they have the approval and
support of all fafr-minded men. and they
also believe that when the true conditions
are made known to the mechanics Of the
other trades the senseess strike In SYM
pathy which they have inaugurated at the
request of the Journeyman Plumbers Local
Union, No. 5, U. A., will be abandoned.
We would also call the attention of the
public to the fact that the representatives
of the journeyman plumbers on the confer
ence committee promised to act in good
faith" but despite this promise they have
requested and succeeded in getting the AL
lied Building Trades to join them in sympa-
thetic strike despite Judge De Lacy's strict
Injunction against any such unfair prac-
tice.
We feel that, after careful consideration
of the findings Of the conference committee.
as set forth above. that the members of the
Allied Building Trades will realize that they
have been misled in this matter. and that
the sympathetic strike which they have or
dered in direct violation of their agree
ment. will be called Off. and the master
plumbers permitted to proceed with their
legitimate business without further inter-
ference.