Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-05-19
PROlEST OF LABOR
UNIONS IS REJECTED
Awards Contract for Mckinley School to Shook Traver
Lowest Bidders, with Understanding Salem Labor and
Materials Be Given Prefer ence - Contractors Declared
Unfair to Organized Labor

In spite Of the protest of the Build.
ing. Trades Council and the Bricklay.
eIs union, supported by the petition
ol about 100 business men and citizens
or the city, the Salem school board
asst evening awarded the contract for
the building Of the new Mckinley grade
school to the firm of Snook 4 Traver,
contractors and the lowest bidders ON
the Job, for S2Ol2S, upon the speci,
fications providing for a hollow brick
wall and raised seam tin roof
Ihis does not include the heating
plant, plans for which are practically
complete and bids for which will be in.
vited at the next regular meeting of
the school board, next Monday NIGHT.
ihe heating plant will cost between
S2iOO and $500, The total fund pro.
'lded by the tax levy for the new
school building apprcNimates 500, 500.
not including the heating plant. Chair.
man Miles and Secretary Burehardt.
of the board, were instructed to enter
INTO q written contract with Shook ,S
| Traver for the construction of the
buildinM and authority was also given
to empltG legal counsel in the drafting
of the contract.
The only point that the school board
would yield, in recognition of the pc,
tton and protest against the award
of the contract to Sno1lS 4 Traver. was
the adoption Of Director Whites mo.
ton providing for an insertion of a
clause in the contract, requiring that
the contractors "giye preference to Sa.
lem labW and Salem material wherever
possible, everything else being equal. -
which will doubtlss meet the desires
and intentions Of the business men and
Salem Commercial club, but that il does
not entirely satisfy the demands of or.
ganlzcd labor which demanded the re.
lection Of the Shook & Traver bid
on the ground this firm had been de.
elared unfair to the Bricklayers
union and that a clause be inserted in
the contract providing that "Salem
labor exclusively be employed ON the
building, goes without saying.
A committee representative Of the
Building Trades Council of the city
carpenters union. X ~ Rornoy5 % 't oS
the plastercrs and l., r. Hill, Of the
painters union, was present at the
meeting, and set forth the contentious
Of organized labor in support of the
Voluntarily sunnorfoi hy II , 6ioano, nv,
of summit n brickmoson wLo f[rnoorI, ,
worked fnr Nv Smool, ,ingon1,I ,N ~ a., y
" open sbonu nolicy ~ tho om,gu oomt,oa oIn Wv
and finally won tbc 1av for +hn Io iottos ~, =
According to the re1rcsentat;r@s n
the delegates from the Buildng Trade
Council, the firm Of Shook & Troye
had been declared "unfair', and rlocc,
on the black list Of the bricklayers
union and this being the case if wonl,
be impossible for them TO employ nnio,
! Ibricklayers in Salem and wouid nav,
to import what worl,men were employe,
ON the building. It was also represent
ed that iuasmuch as the controctor
were on the unfair list of one trade
union, the six other tradesmens, nnion
affiliated with the bricklayers mr.,
Oathbound 10 recognize the prievonc,
of the brickaycrs in conseonencc n
:, which the unin pasterers. latbers
painters, masons. plumbers and sheet
metal workers could not accent en-
ployment Of the "bovcottel'} con
tractors, and it would be necessary fol
Shook & lraycr 10 import non.1rio,
craftsmen from outside of salem
In defense of their uositions In tb,
matter both Mr., Shook and Mr.. TraveI
contcnded that the whole trouble ex
listed between themselves and the brick.
layers unioa; that they conducted an
"opcn shop and employed both union
and nouunion labor, preferably union
when they could be obtained. and re
fused to be dictated TO by organized
labor when their interests and the in.
tcrcstg Of the contractos and the own.
er of the building under construction
conflicted. They pledged themselye.
solemnv TO rive preference ia salem