The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
IN SPITE OF RUM0RS
MONDAY WILL FIND
STRIKERS AT WORK
Few Were Busy Yesterday,
But This Is Attributed to
Suddenness of Agreement
STRIKE APPARENTLY
is OVER FOR GOOD
Rumors Are Circulated That State
Federation Is Dissatisfied With
Agreement and Proposes
Taking Drastic Action

Rumors of divers and various things
were IN the air yesterday in regard to
labor conditions in Birmingham, but as
FAR as anything could be found out the
/ sympathetic strike among the buildings
trades is over as was announced yester-
day morning.
one of the reports yesterday was to
the effect that the Alabama Federation
Oh Labor felt aggrieved at what they
| termed being sold out in the agree
ment signed up Friday between the Bir-
| mingham Building Trades council and an
| Independent association of contractors
| The report was denied from several
sources and confirmed by none. Attor-
neys Gibson & Davis, counsel for the
| Building Trades council, emphatically
! stated that the report was untrue and said
they wished to be quoted TO that effect
The report was to the effect that the Ala =
bama Federation was aggrieved and in
tended to call meeting today and call a
| general labor strike over the entire state
"The report is absolutely without foun-
dation," stated the attorneys. "The agree
| ment as entered into yesterday is bona
| fide and satisfactory to our clients, and
work has been resumed already Work
ON all the fair jobs will be in full opera
| ton Monday"
Few at Work Yesterday
| While it was stated by the labor union
officials after the signing of the agree
| ment Friday afternoon that nearly 5000
men would return to work yesterday
morning, there were few men at work on
any of the big construction jobs in the
city. 1t stated this was because more
notice was required to get all the men
| back on the jobs. Some few men went
to work on the Jefferson County bank
hauled to the Tutwiler hotel site to be
used ostensibly in the derrick engines and
other signs of active resumption of work
by Monday were evident.
| The union men insist that the agree
ment entered into Friday means the end
| of the sympathetic strike, and that work
on the Tutwier and Roden hotels, the
Ridgely apartments and Jefferson County
Bank building and other union jobs will
be resumed at once. f. w. Marks of the
Marks Construction company, who is
erecting the bank skyscraper, is out o.
the city and will not be back until some
| time today. 1t is stated this may have
been cause for delay in the immediate
resumption of the work, although other
officials of the company declined to make
any statement.
Master Builders Satisfied
| The Birmingham Building Contractors
association, commonly called the Master
strikers or accede to their demands. Sec
retary George Stafford states all of their
work is progressing as well as can be ex-
pected, they have plenty of workmen and
outside of the trouble caused occa sionally
by strikers attacking their men they have
not been bothered by the strike. 1t was
against the Master Builders that the
strike was originally called, the re-
remainder of the contractors being taken
IN by means of the sympathetic feature.
1t was stated yesterday that the cleo
trical contractors had declared for the
open shop also, and that other of the
contractors were contemplating the move
Chief OF Police Bodeker states there were
no reports of trouble yesterday in any
part of the city from the strikers or nom
union men. The chief conferred with
Judge Lane yesterday and none of the
extra policemen which have recently been
added to the force to help during the
strike were released.