Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
BUILDING TRADES
QUARREL STIRS
ESSEX COUNCIL
Attempt Made by Marble Work
ers to Ban Slate Men from
Union Fails.

A long-standing quarrel between
the slate workers and the marble
workers unions caused another
lively row at the meeting of the
Essex Trades Council, in thinner
mans Hall, last night An attempt
was made TO unseat the delegates Of
the slate workers union, but a mo-
ton made for that purpose was
finally defeated. A motion to have
contractors notified that the mem
bers of the union had no right to sci
slate was then introduced, but was
also unsuccessful.
The quarrel between the two unions
has been in progress for several
months. The marble workers declare
that the slate workers have no right
to set slate and can do only mill and
quarry work. Slate setting must be
done by the marble workers, they
claim.
The quarrel last night grew out Of
a discussion of the strikes now on at
the Washington School, Kearny. the
Central School, Orange, and the
Franklin School and the high school
at East Orange.
Secretary Henry Hilfers, of the
council, declared that the Essex
Trades Council was being blamed by
contractors and others for the trou-
bic at the schools. The council had
recognized the slate workers union,
he said, but the American Federation
of Labor had ruled that the union
must not set slate Delegate c.
Tucker, of the marble workers. de2
clared that his union had made an
offer to take in the members of the
slate workers union
L. j. Waters, delegate of the slate
workers union, defended the action
of his union, and declare d that they
would continue to set slate until the
national convention of the American
Federation of Labor, to be held next
November, took action
After heated discussion, the mo-
ton to unseat the slate workers del
egates was defeated. The motion to
notify contractors that the slate
workers were not authorized to set
slate was then made, but was voted
down.
The demand that the slate delegates
be unseated came from the Building
Trades Council. The meeting of the
council lasted until nearly midnight
and verbal wrangling between the
delegates became very heated.
Miss Ida La Porte and Mrs Clara
Pierson, representing the Corset Work
ers' Union, Of Kalamazoo, Mich, made
short addresses to the council. They
told of the strike which the corset
workers of Kalamazoo are carrying
on to maintain a living wage and
sanitary working conditions. The
council voted s25 towards the work.
A statement made at the last meet
ing of the council that new uniforms
for letter carriers in the local post
Office were to be made by a non-union
firm in Chicago was declared to be
untrue by William ]. Heeb, vice-pres-
| ident of the Letter Carriers Associa-
ton, and Charles Manhoff, chairman
of the uniform committee of the asso-
/ citation.
They showed that the uniforms are
being made by a union concern in
/ Cincinnati. Any letter carriers who
preferred to have their uniforms made
by a union firm in this city were per-
mitted to do so. they said. A. Stig-
litz, who made the charge at the last
meeting OF the council. was directed to
write to the Letter Carriers Associh--
ton, explaining the misunderstood
ing.