Republican farmer., 1919-01-31
ALLIED TRADES
 ORDER SYMPATHY STRIKE OF CRAFTS
Rule Affects Every Contract Operated by Member of the
 N. Y. Employers Assoc.
BRICKLAYERs QUIT
 HOUSING PROJECT
All Other Crafts Will Go Out Says Morgan, Wont Affect Us," Says supt.
 Parker.

Every bricklayer and father who
 has been working on the government houses being erected by the Cauld- well-Wingate Co.,, were called out in a sympathetic strike with the car penters by deputies from their nation al organizations. Last night every bricklayers laid down his tools and this morning every lather walked out soon after having reported for work. The prospects are 1t was stated this | morning that before night stone ma sons, plasterers, cement finishers, sheet metal workers painters, slate and tile workers and plumbers, in fact every branch of the allied 1 trades, will have joined in the nation wide sympathetic strike which involv- 1 ed primarily, carpenters who were l working for contractors who are members of the New York Master 1 Builders Association.
 1 A conference has been in session i since Monday of the national heads of the allied trades associations and 1 brotherhoods, and the strike last night was the result of the decision which was reached by the leaders yester- 1 day.
 Full particulars have not been re- | ceived, but a deputy brought a mess age from the conferees which after 1 it's communication to the business
 agent of the Iocal bricklayers asso- citation, resulted in the walkout. In | structions are expected at headquar- 1 ters of the other trades which will 1 effectually tie up all building opera i ,tions of the Cauldwell-W -Wingate Co. l throughout the country, and will stop 1 completely the erection of the gov
 ernment houses in Bridgeport. Deputies have been sent from the 1 conference in New York to all pro- ! jects concerned in nearby states. and
 telegrams have been sent to those
 in states too far away for the depu-
 ties to reach in 24 hours. and in a | few days not a union member of al 1 lied trades who is in the employ of ! a contractor who is a member of the New York association, will be at | work.
 John Morgan, general organizer for the National Brotherhood of Carpen- l l6ISs duu W IlO IldS DSt1l lIlo IepISbeU- tative Of the Brotherhood in Wash i ington for the past 8 months, was | in Bridgeport .this morning. Mir | Morgan, in going over the local sit i uation, claimed that the Cauldwell- | Wingate Co. are merely using "ca- mouf1age" in claiming that the gov i ernment has charge of the govern
 ment work in this city.
 The [. s. Housing Corp. could not
 separate the carpenter work from the
 balance of the projects now under the
 charge of the Cauldwell-Wingate Co.
 My authority for this statement is 6
 conversation which I had with Rob
 ert Watson, of Washington, who is a
 representative of the Secretary of
 Labor No one part of the contract
 can be taken from a firm.
 If Otto Eidlitz so desired he could
 end this controversy in a very short
 time. His official affiliations with the
 members of the Master Builders as-
 sociation in New York are so great
 that he personally could end the :. whole affair"
 He said: we have a sworn state
 ment from one of the men who was
 Induced to come here from Worces-
 ter. The statement was sworn to
 before Irving Bison, Notary Public of
 Bridgeport, and states that the man, John A. Cox, a machinist by trade was induced by an agent of the com pany to come to Bridgeport to work l as carpenter. He told the agent , that he had no knowledge of car
 pentry, and the agent promised him
 80 cents an hour. The agent also claimed that the work was strictly l government work, and that there was l no strike or labor trouble In Bridge g port connected with it.
 . There is a law in Massachusetts = which forbids the representation |. of any labor situation. and that any
 persons or firms making such state g ment are liable to prosecution. Never <, theless an agent made such a state \ ment to about 75 returned soldiers t in Worcester and induced many of l them to come here under false pre- tenses."
 Martin kane business agent of the
 Brotherhood of Carpenters said this
 morning that only about 191 carpen.
 ters were working on the government
 houses "Of these" said MT. Kane = there are about 30 at the Grassmere 3 project, 70 at the Crane lot. 51 al 8 Brewster street and 10 at Boston ave. t nue and Connecticut projects. Ot f these the larger part are unskilleC 3 men, and have very little knowledge
 of carpentry Many of them are for a eigners and can not even speak Eng @ fish, and some are alienA
 l W S. Parker. government superin 3 tendent of construction in Bridgeport : when asked the effect of the walkou ' of the bricklayers and fathers, said
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