The San Francisco call., 1907-06-08
MCCARTHY LOCKS HORNS
AGAIN WITH SULLIVAN
Promises Striking Linernen
Support of Building
Trades Council
MEN MUST RETURN
international Officer Says
He Will Fill Places if
They Refuse
MEN MUST RETURN

IT do not like the spirit of threat.
but will say this: II local No. Isl,
which entered rashly on a sympathetic
strike In behalf of the telephone girls.
does not rescind its hasty action at the
meeting called for tomorrow night I
will have the strikers places in the
telephone company filled by good union
men. Either the members who walked
out return to work or L will see that
other members of the /. B. e. w. take
their places. The L. B. E. w. cannot
AFFORD to repudiate Its agreements, and
/ purpose to see that the contract en-
tered into between the district council
and the telephone company last Decem-
ber is lived up to in letter and spirit.
Organized labor is too often accused of
repudiating its agreements, and too
often there Is truth in the accusations.
1t is such unconstitutional and unjus-
titled acts of this done by No. ISL which
bring unionism into disrepute."
Such was Grand Vice President Sui
| livans statement yesterday with refer
| ence to the internal struggle in union
ism that grew out of the action of
the linemen's union in striving to aid
the telephone girls by declaring sym
| pathetic strike, in defiance, says Sulli-
van, of an agreement existing with the
company and contrary to the constitu-
tion of the /. B. E. W., of which local
No. ISL is a part.
Sullivan says he was visited yester-
day by delegation of 80 members from
| No. Isl, who asked him to suspend
drastic action until the local union had
a chance to call a special meeting to-
night to rescind the strike vote of last
Monday.
1t is claimed that only 1o5 members,
| out of nearly 900, were present when
! e. he IN
strike was carried by majority of only
| 2. In view of this. Sullivan consented
| to postpone action until the entire
membership shall have chance to vote.
| He said he was satisfied that the sober
sense of the members would prevail
and that the men would go back to
work. A
! In the meantime. a meeting was held
yesterday morning by the telephone
dent Leonard and Business Agent Wolf
of No. Isl and President p. H. Nc
Carthy of the building trades council.
The presence of the latter was signffi-
cant. He promised the support of his
| organization and tacitly approved the
action of No. Isl in going out in sym
pathy with the cause of the girls. Nc
Carthy and Sullivan have been brought
| together before in internal union war.
In the fight between locals Nos. 6 and i
| of the electrical workers, Mccarthy, as
| head of the latter, is fought by local
No. 6, which has the support of Sulli-
| van. The latter fight, which is still
waged, resulted In the sensational
charges made by Mccarthy that he was
the intended victim of plot, Matched
| in the Office of local No. 6, to kidnap
and murder him.
| At the meeting of the phone girls
Leonard and Wolf renewed their
assurances of the support of No. ISL.
and declared that Sullivan was power
less to make them return to their jobs
/ Business Agent Wolf was very bitter
against Sullivan and President Kelly of
the district council for antagonizing
| No. Isl in the strike. Wolf admitted
that one union man was at work for
| the company, and said: He is kept
under lock and key by the company
| and never comes out so we cannot at
tend to his case now. But wait until
| the trouble is over. Well fix him
then"
| Wolf acknowledged that there was q
possibility of violation of the consti-
! tuition in the case of No. 151, but de-
clared that without the help of the line
men the girls would surely be beaten
and insisted that this fact justified the
sympathetic strike.
1t was the sense not only of the mer
but of the company that, robbed of the
support of the linemen, the girls would
certainly lose. Sullivan said he re.
GREETED this fact, but that they had not
gone about their organization in the
right way, had been overhasty. and
could not expect another union to vio-
late it's obligations and repudiate its
| word in order to help them.
/ Vice President Zimmer of the tele-
phone company said yesterday the cor
poration was not worrying over the