South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-23
MAYOR DECLARES
TRUST STILES
ENTIRE CITY
Board of Estimates Holds Up
S7.000.0O0 Worth
OF Contracts.

sew YORK. OCT 2s.-New
E"rs IS ready ro suspend au public
work uutI r. S. learned ~ there is
open competition boz bidding for the
work.
This announcement was made
her. iata Friday hv Mayor HyIan.
wheu tho 1nHt legislative commit
fe" adjourned until November g.
.f-er bus counsel had asserted DO had
'uit scratched tIe surface ir .fs iu-
Ne.l-atIur OF the building trust
D-r-.nuu iu the building site
utfion came .u dramatic fashion
rlIar afternoon after Mayor Hv-
am had addressed the board OF es-
uatt. declaring that "the buiId-
Hg trust the ms trust. tho coal
rust and the other trusts have
luilt sal. about New York great
r than the eroat wall OF China"
Rc~cind- Contracts
While thr legislative committee
WAS Gu.zl-u- witnesses iu one cham
ier uf tle city hail. the board OF
estimates meeting In another.
reseirjrd four contracts iuv0IviuC
n1nroEimarrIv sT.UGH.unU worth OF
WORK ON [eE York slunty's pro-
posed court house The mayor also
auih,r..ad Commissioner of Ac-
cDuas HI-shleId 10 make searcn-
ing .u' -ati0u OF all contracts
Tor school houses
want tae people 20 know that
they vll Do. protected against men
Vino are seeking uy means of COM
h.nat.ur- #ud unfair practices 20
rulet the people explained the
mayor.
Bribery Charged
While the IegisIaus. committee
bold brief session Friday. Samuel
I interim ger. committee counsel. eX-
aaincd several witnesses regarding
the activities ~ the alleged labor
contractor com biuauou. which he
asserted was sitting construction
work in New York civ
Important developments were.
Refusal Of Robert T. BriudeII
president of the Building Trades
council 10 take advantage of the
opportunity given him hE the com
ultfee 10 re.ute testimony of
Ephriam Levy and George Backer
regarding bride of $4,000 paid 10
bileged labor repres .utatives 60
XII off a strike.
ENtortion Pracuccd
Assertion by AR Tutermyer
that "a widespread system Of ex-
iortiOn was being practiced bv UNI
scrupuious labor leaders to obtain
EAST sums uf money from employ
urs under threat of calling strikes
o. actually doing 60.
Testimony 20 TIE effect that up
wards Of four hundred plumbing
contractors iu New York submitted
their proposed bids for plumbing
under The code of practice" before
they We're offered "a prospective
client
Plumber Pleads.
4 dramatic moment came when
Milton Schnaier "a plumbing con
tractor. pleaded on the witness
bfand with committee counsel not
.o continue questions which he said
would lmperil his million dollars
North or business by withdrawal
81 labor
schnsIer made his appeal after
estifying that he had subscribed
lndcr pressure 70 the code Of
practice of tho plum bling contrac-
iors OF the Fifty eighth Street" as
sociauon.' who sent their bids 20
John r.. Hettrick lawyer. who is
alleged 10 have operated the
code.
Association Controls Men
ITO what extent were YOU not a
free ageltT" asked AR Untcrmyer.
You brought DC out Yourself here
with AIr Br.ndCI" replied the wit
ness
oh. YOU mean that If YOU did not
belong 10 that association. even
sou were q union shop Brindeu
would pull off his men, IS that ito"
Mr.. Juteruyer. YOU don't want
M 20 have my doors closed with
million dollars worth of business
10y answering you these questions
here
No but we VIII close Mr.. Brin-
dslls doors
Schndier said that under the
code of practice" four percent of
The annual gross income of the 900
plumbing contractors was paid into
mr. Hettricks office. one percent OF
which went Co Mr.. HettriCk