The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-05
IRON WORKERS ARE
STILL ON STRIKE
In Meantime, Work on CONNER;
ciaI Club Building Is at
Standstill.
NATTER DISCUSSED, BUT
NO CONCLUSION REACHED.
Entire Construction May Re De.
clared Unfair if Demands 4
Are Not Met.

The board of governors of the Com.
mercial club, representatives of James
Stewart 6 Co, the general contractors.
who have the construction of the new
Commercial club building. representa-.
tives of the Minneapolis Steel aud Ma.
chlncry company and the executive
committee Of the building trades eoun-
Gil met Friday at 1890 clock in the (
rooms Of the board of governors at the
Commercial club to discuss the strike
situation of the iron workers. The ses
sion lasted until 2:30 o clock in the .
afternoon without any definite CON
clusion being arrived at and action in
the matter was finally laid over until
Monday.
The strike Of the iron workers has
assumed q rather grave aspect, due to
the fact that the building trades coun-
ell has decided 20 declare the construc-
tion work on the new Commercial club
building unfair IN the event that the
demands Of the iron workers are not
met by the Minneapolis Steel and Ma
chlncry company. The following letter
was mailed to the James Stewart com.
panv on May % by the secretary OF
the building trades council:
Here Is the Letter.
with the Building Trades Department.
American Federation of Labor. Address
OF writer. 1881 South State street, Salt
Lake City. May %. 1909.
GentlemeD-It has come to the notice
Of the Building Trades Council that the
Minneapolis Steel and Machinery COM
pany. contemplate using non-union men
for the erection of the steel on the Com
mercial club building now in course of
construction by your firm.
The representatives. of tho Building
| Trades Council were led to believe (by-
| MIR. Fisher Harris) that the Job was TO
! be fair for organized labor throughout.
! Therefore. the Building Trades Council
! takes this means OF notifying you that IL
| the job Is unfair for the iron workers IL
will be declared unfair for all of the.
| other trades concerned.
Hoping that You can see your way clear
10 adjust this matter for the iron work.
ers, am, yours truly Secretary Of the
! The iron workers claim to have noti-
fled the Minneapolis Steel and Ma
chinery company two months before the
| present contract was taken that the
new scale of wages would be $3.50 per
| day. In the event that their demands
are not complied with on this building,
| they say that the firm Of James Stew
art 6 Co., as well as that of the Mime
apolis Steel and Machinery company,
will be declared unfair by the building
trades council throughout the United
States and Canada. This will mean that
all of the work on the new Commercial
club building will have TO bo done by
nonunon men. brought from the outside
TO Salt Lake City, unless the demands
of the union are granted.
offer by Newhouse. "a
It is understood that during the dis
cussion relative to the continuation OF
| the work on The new Commercial club
building, Samuel Newhouse, who was
present, asked for information regard
ing the additional cost IN the event that
the iron workers were paid the scale
demanded. Upon being told by Mr..
Ware. the architect of the building, that
the additional cost would be in the
neighborhood of $500, Mr.. Newhouse
Offered TO give his check for half Of
the sum if the remainder would he made
up, in order to expedite matters and
start the erection of the building
The Commercial club has had no deal
ings with the Minneapolis Steel aud
Machinery company, the contract beng
the erection of the entire building, ex-
cept the placing of the plumbing and
heating fixtures There is nothing IN
the contract with the Stewart company
regarding the employment of union H.,
bor, but the building is TO be complsted
by September 15. In case of fallufe
to com plete the building by that date
the James Stewart company will forfeltk
800 per day for each day in excess or
the stipulated time. or will receive, q
bonus of 800 per day for each day The
building is finished before the stlpu-
lated time.