The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-02-15
GARY COMMERCIAL CLUB
TAKES UP UNION QUESTION

not be arbitrated for there is nothing
to arbitrate when men refuse to work.
will not give any reason for not work.
ing and will not talk TO their former
employers.
The fathers next quit work in a body
and refused to work for any member
of the emploers' association or on any
building in which member had con-
tract. Another case which could not be
arbitrated as there was nothing to arbi-
trate. the men quitting work of their
own accord.
The plasterers quit work next and
under the same conditions as the lath-
ers and so on down the line. But the
plasterers' condition was different from
all the others inasmuch as they were
not members of either the Building
Trades Council of Lake county nor of
the Associated Building Trades Coun-
ell. They were an independent organi-
zation with affiliation with the
other crafts and for this reason they
had separate agreement with the en-
plovers association which distinctly
stated and agreed thai under no con-
ditions would they quit work but that
any grievance they might have would
be submitted to a Joint arbitration.
said arbitration to be binding on both
parties, and in the event of either party
breaking the agreement. the violator
agreed to pay the injured party GER
tain sum OF money. In spite of this
agreement the plasterers quit work on
all the jobs they had commenced and
refused to do any work for any mem
Der of the employers association or on
any building in which any member had
a contract. and hoycotted all members
of the association. How could this mat
ter be arbitrated and especially as this
union declared that 1t did not have
enough money to pay it's fines?
| At last the unions belonging to the
Associated Building Trades Council. with
whom the employers association had
| the same kind of an agreement that
with the plasterers. all quit work. vio-
! latiEg their agreement with the en-
ployer' association. Their excuse for
quitting was that the employers asso-
citation would not make another agree
ment with the plasterers after the
] plasterers broke their agreement with
the employers. The Associated Build
ing Trades Council did not ask for a
specific new contract for the plasterers
but by taking them into it's association
did attempt to make a new contract for
them by enforcing the terms of it's
agreement so that it would cover the
case of the plasterers. 1t did this
when it demanded arbitration for the
plasterers under the terms of the agree
ment between the employers association
and the Associated Building Trades
Council.
! Does any business man make a sec
ond agreement with anyone who has
broken a first agreement?
boycotted the members of the associa.
ton. thus breaking their agreement. the
Associated Building Trades Council
took them into it's organization ana
then demanded arbitration for them or
the ground that the old agreement be.
| tween the employers association ant
the Associated Building Trades Council
now covered the plasterers. although
the plasterers had meyer been a party t.
THAT agreement in any way. This de
mand of the council could not be &C
coded to for the reason that the plast
erers we're not members of the coun
ell when the agreement was made .,
the council with the employers asso
citation. This agreement applied onl,
to the unions which were members o
J the council when the agreement wa
made.
Because arbitration was refused tn
, Associated Building Trades Council 70
the plasterers, who were not a part.
; to the agreement the council elaine
that the employers association brok
It's agreement with the council. wnel
1t Is a perfectly evident proposition
/ that the council broke it's agreemen
by It's members quitting work
The records of the employers asso
citation show that arbitration was al
; ways given promptly when asked 70
by the party having a grievance an
) having the right to arbitration.
The public should understand tina
every union which has quit work Ia
D done solely in sympathy with tn
s collins McNulty faction of electrician
S and not because of an grievance of IT
I own.
t GARY COMMERCIAL CLUB.
Y You will say that a Lavender olga
cannot be beat If you try one.