Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-20
UNION LEADERS
DISCUSS TROUBLE
ON PRUDENTIAL
All Workmen Are on Job Today
as Result of Meeting Held
Yesterday.

The men employed on the new Pru-
dental building We're at work today as
the result of a meeting held yesterday
afternoon, when it was unanimously
decided to remain on the job as long
as there is a member of the Operative
Plasterers' International Association on
the job, and, as told in yesterdays
EVENING STAR, there are about a
score or more of them on the work, n
they absolutely refuse to quit, and that
means the trouble is at an end
Among those present at the meeting
yesterday We're Samuel Bothered, gen.
eral organizer of the Brotherhood OF
Carpenters; John Sterling, one of the
business agents of the District Council
of Carpenters, and Joseph l.. Kolley,
fifth vice-president of the Bricklayers
and Masons' International Union. Mr..
Bothered said that he had received a
telegram from President Huber, of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters, ordering all
of the carpenters to leave the job and
that those Instructions must be obeyed.
His authority to usurp the powers of
the District Council of Carpenters was
questioned by Mr.. Sterling, who asked
to see the telegram, and then it was
found that it had been directed to the
secretary of the District Council n
not to Mr.. Bothered, so that it does no,
lave any weight until it is first re-
ceived and acted upon by the District
Council. which does not meet until to-
morrow night.
1t is said that Mr.. Bothered, in his
remarks, assailed the bricklayers and
masons, not knowing that Mr.. Kolley
was present. Mr.. Kolley, in his re-
marks. denied Mr.. Botherelrs state
ments and defied him to produce his
proofs.
AS the main question was whether
the Operative Plasterers employed on
the building. and who had refused to
recognize Local 427 of the O.. p. I. A.,
were bona fide A. F. Of l.. men, it was
decided to ask the officials of No. %
for a statement to that effect.
John H. Mclean, on behalf of the
carpenters and the other trades on the
building, wrote to the organization and
received the following reply today;
John H. Mclean:
Dear Sir-This is to certify that the
members of this local. No. %. o. P. I.
A. working on the Prudential Life In
surance building. in Newark, are men,
bers in good standing and are recog-
nized as such, this local being af1li-
ated with the Building Trades Council
of the American Federation of Labor
and carry such cards. F~raternally
yours, FRANCIS X. CLARK,
Secretary"
The letter bears the seal of the local.
which met at Brevoort Hall, 154 East
Fifty-fourth street, New York, last
night.
1t is said that General President John
Donlin, of the O.. P. I. A, was present
at the meeting and acknowledged that
a mistake had been made in organizing
Local No. 427, which had only served to
Il trouble in this city instead of
harmony.
The contention of the men at work
is that the established rule Of the
trade movement should prevail, and
that there shall be no sympathetic
strike unless all of the members of the
organization affected are called off the
building, and that has not and will not
be done.
"A conference between the officials of
the Operative Plasterers and the Brick
layers and Masons' unions is looked
for in a day or so to adjust the trouble.