United labor bulletin., 1911-09-14
BUILDING TRADES UNITE
IN ONE ORGANIZATION
All Officers of Old Organizations
Resign---Advanced Steps
Are Taken.

The building trades of Denver are
again united.
1t was pleasing sight when, this
morning, the writer visited the head
quarters of the building trades at 5o2
Exchange building, and there seen the
business agents of every building trade
in the city sitting together to adjust their
disputes, to work out their problems and
to accomplish greater things than have
been done in the past for the building
trades of Denver.
For more than two years the trades
working at this great Industry have been
warning against each other-the cause
OF which is in the past, and The Bulletin
does not propose to recount the history
of that mistake. The labor movement is
now looking to the future.
The organization of the Associated
Building Trades of Denver and Vicinity
is more responsible for the recent move
of the building trades than any other
thing The forming of the Associated
Council made it necessary for those re-
naming in the old council to seek action
whereby all the trades-both in the new,
the old, and on the outside-could come
together under one name and under one
admins stration.
While a few organizations were not
members of either council yet the
animated
new.
The inception OF the settlement came
with the visit OF President Gompers to
Denver recently. Committees (not off,
ciaD of the two councils, and from or
gauiZations on the outside, called on
Gompers at his hotel and after lengthy
conference Gompers recommended that
the two councils appoint conciliation
committees. This was done. In subse-
whereby the building trades will be
united under a name yet to be agreed
upon.
The officers of each organization have
resigned. There will be a meeting Sat
urday of this week when form of or
ganization will be agreed upon. At
| subsequent meeting to the one held Sat
urday of this week, officers will be Sc
| lected for the new consolidated council
The council will include every building
| trades organization in the city of Den
yer, and it is likely that it will be named
the Building Trades Council of Denver
the name under which the building
| trades of Denver are chartered by the
Building Trades Department OF the A.
F. of L.
The charter will not be revoked, it is
said, on account of the amliation of the
Brotherhood Carpenters. 1t is believed
] they Will be reaffiliated with the depart
ment at the Atlanta convention
1t is believed that the president of the
new council will come either from the
old Building Trades Council or from the
Brotherhood Carpenters. Denny Fall1n,
: business agent of the Associated Council
viii be a candidate for election in the
] new council and viii most likely be
I elected, although he will gladly withdraw
his name if good can be accomplished
thereby. Everything is harmony and the
/ representatives of the numerous build
ing trades are determined to effect the
consolidation-and make it lasting.
To show their good faith, the two or
ganizations have pulled" the Whitney
Stein job at Seventeenth and California
streets-the International Trust COM
pany building Non-union cement work
ers are employed there at 25 cents an
hour while the scale for union men is
S7Ia cents. This was called to the at
tention of the superintendent and lie
, would not act. Then both councils UNI
der the new agreement, cleaned tho
jo5 of every trade excepting the 'soab'
cement workers.
| The joint agreement having stood the
test. the organizations are now hurrying
to consummate a permanent organiza-
/ tion.