Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-21
TRANSFERS ARE
FORCED OUT OF
TRADES COUNCIL
Delegate, Retiring Under Proc
test, Says He Will APP
peal to A. F. of L.

As the elimination Of a dispute that
has extended owe q period of fifteen
months, Transfers Union No. AIS lie
today under suspension from the Essex
Trades Council. BY virtue OF the order
Of suspension, William s. Weeks, dele
gate of the union, also retires from the
council, but under protest, declaring
hat ne will carry the dispute before
the executive board of the American
Federation Of Labor, seeking reinstate-
ment for himself and his union. The
crisis in the dispute came at the meet
ing OF the council last night, when a
motion Of suspension, made by George
Leary, Of the metal polishers, vas car
ried, after a heated debate.
The trouble with the teamsteTs dates
back over a year, when they had
trouble with the Star Spring Bed Com
pany In reference to union drivers. AT
the time they tried to unionize these
men (seven), who were directly In the
employ OF Reinhardt's Express, and
claimed that they had done so; at the
same time, all other men employed at
the factory were n~oo-union, 1t was
claimed.
A number Of metal pOlishers are en-
ployed there and these men have never
Joined the local in this city, and still
knowing hat there were ~non-union
men at work in the factory Delegate
Leary, of the ~polishers, declared Last
night on the floor of the council that
Delegate Weeks, OF the teansters.
went and signed an agreement with
the firm and the Reinhafdt people, IN
which he would allow his men 10
handle the goods made in a n~on-union
shop, regardless OF what the conse
quences were from other sources"
Weeks Had Made Denial.
This matter came out a few wosks
ago and when Weeks was confronted
with the facts he stated that they were
not so and declared at the meeting
that he had learned that the teamsters
were in for a drubbing, LIT inferred
that as far as the proceedings OF the
Essex Trades Council were concerned
there was a "nigger in the woodpile"
and he could prove 1t. A committed
was appointed at once 10 investigate his
remarks and It was found that the go
called "nigger In the woodpile" WAS
Delegate Brennan, OF the FreInen's
Union, and that the remarks that he
was charged with having made to
Weeks were perfectly justified, as any
union man would make the same, n
he was INDICATED.
It was at the meeting OF January 8
that q motion vas made demanding
that Delegate Weeks apologize to the
council for the remarks ne had made
In reference to Delegate brennan. and
this he refused to do. When he refused
a motion was made TO the effect a
his international officers De invited to
the meeting last night, when the QCes-
ton to dismiss him from the council
would come up.
Communications were ent to General
Organizer of the American Federation
of Labor Hugh Frayne, General Or
gani2er William II. Ashton nj Inter
national President Tobfn, OF the
teamsters, TO be present at last
nights session, but they each sent word
that important business prevented
them from being present, and Mr.
Frayne said he hoped that the c0ur-
Gil would deliberate before taking any
drastic action.
Polishers Give U1timatum.
In making his motion Delegate Leary
remarked: TT might appear to the
delegates that this motion Of mine
comes with bad grace, but it does not
AS the representative OF al organize-
ton most vitality interested in the
trouble OF the teansters l am here to-
night to see this matter settled for all
time, and II, as the secretary has read
from the constitution Of the American
Federation OF Labor. thai a member
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