Evening star., 1907-11-09
MASTER BUILDERS PLEA
Sweeping Order Sought as Result of
Local Labor Controversy.
OBJECT TO PICKETING SHOPS
Court Asked to Prevent 1nterfer-
ence With Building Operations
by Union Workmen.

Justice Gould In Equity Court No. 2
today issued q rule William H
Maghan and twenty-seven other mem
bers of Bricklayers' Union. Local NO. L,
of Bricklayers and Masons Internation-
al Union, to show cause Friday, NoVem-
Der 10. why they should not be en-
joined from interfering with or boycott
ting certain master builders and con-
tractors.
The rule is based on a petition filed.
through Attorneys Leon Tobriner and
Walter Drew 10y Richardson & burgess,
Samuel J. Prescott Company, Charles
J. Cassidy Company. Thomas III. Melton.
Frank l.. Wagner. Charles a. Langley,
William Freeman, Thomas Hughes.
Hervey G. Machen Kennedy & Davis
Company. James l. Marshall and Her
bert V. Sanford.
The complainants ask that the nnlon De
restrained from interfering with or oo-
StruCting their business or from potherlne
or injuring their agents and employees
connected with or concerned in the opera
tions of their several shops or buildings
in the erection of which they may be en-
gagged. They ask the court to prevent the
union men from establishing pickets near
bui dings being erected or repaired by
any of the complainants and from as
sauting or intimidating by threats. CO.
ere on otherwise any of their present
or prospective employees. They also ask
that the union men or strikers be not al
lowed to congregate about the establish
mentS of the master builders or in the
neighborhood of any Of their buildings
with view to inducing or soliciting the
employees of the petitioners to suspend or
quit work, or from preventing or attempt
ing to prevent persons seeking employ
ment with the complainants.
They also seek the Intervention of the
court to prevent alleged intimidation of
persons continuing to work with the
master builders, or alleged bribing or
attempting to bribe such employees with
promises of money or transportation If
such employees would leave the sehvice
of the master builders; or alleged threats
of strike or boycott.
+ The complainants also wish the union
men enjoined from interfering with or
attempting to interfere with the peaceable
arrival In this city of persons who are
desirous or who intend to or who have
entered the employment OF any of the
complainants or from interfering with
such persons on their way from the
local stations to their lodging houses.
Forty AfRdavits Attached.
The petition Of the complainants, which
has attached to 1t forty affidavits corrobo-
rating Its allegations. sets forth that they
have many thousands of dollars invested
| In shops, plants, machinery and para
phernalia of trade and employ. directly
or through subconstractors. numerous
brtCklayers. carpenters. stone masons,
plasterers and other mechanics. They al
lege that unless the defendants are re-
strained from certain alleged Illegal ac-
tions they will su Ter pecuniary loss ag-
sregating thousands of dollars.
They declare that one of the rules of
the union to which fney say the de-
PENDANTS belong is that such members
shall not work with mechanics or labOrers
who do not belong to the union. and that
at the command of the union officers such
men will strike and leave the employ of
any one hiring non Union labor, with the
view of requiring the maintenance of the
closed shop.
| The bill In detail rehearses the labor
| difficulties from March, 1906 when the
| controversy arose between the Plumbers
! and Gastitters Union and the Master
/ Plumbers Association. down to August
/ Il last, when members of the defendant
| Bricklayers' Union. ii is alleged, in sym
| pathy with the Plumbers and Gastitters
Union and for no other purpose but to
enforce that uniOns demand, went a
strike in those buildings In the erection
and completion OF which non-union plumb
! ers were employed.
| BY reason of this strike, it is averred
the conduct of the building business and
the completion of buildings then in course
| of construction greatly interfered
with and the building industry in the Dis
| tTiCt greatly drmoraliZed.