The evening world., 1920-12-10

meeting called and we could get
no more labor.
@. SO you are now out Of the
marble and tile business2 A.
have been out for a year. ! am
ruined
q Is there anything you nave not
tried2 4. nothing.
Charles i. Sicgel Of NO 90 Living
stou Street. Brooklyn, said Price and
Donuhy of the Marble Settlers Union
ordered him to dispense with Daniel
NJ. RAIDER, Il marble contractor not
member of the Marble Industry Asso-
citation. The job was the rCmUdClling
the Darlington Hotel.
Raiders bid was S., 200. Members of
the association had bid $4,000 and
$1,000.
Mr. Siegel said he disregarded the
notice. After RAIDERS men had been
working two days Donahy he said,
called the union men of all trades off
the job until the contract should be
put in the hands OF member Of the
association. This was Robert +. Brir-
delPs order, Donahy said, according to
the witness
BY agreement with the owners. Mr.
Siegel said he undertook TO eliminate
all marble from the building and so
notified Donahy, asking for the return
of all other laborers.
"Donahy came to see me-" said
Mr.. Segel, land said: Mr.. Sieael,
you are going to put marble work
in this building. IL you do not
you will have a monument instead
Of a building"
Regarding this as a threat Mr.
Stegel said, he persuaded the owners
to award the marble contract to the
Charles NJ. Gray Company, associa-
tion member which had bid Sg,6O0
The name Of Charles j. Kelly was
called after the testimony Of MIR.
Petigor in order to give him, if pres
ent, an opportunity to reply. He did
rot respond.
Marble Industry Employers Associa- =
ton at $4,000 a year, produced a
Code of Practice" OF that organiza-
ton. 1t showed that contractors are
now obliged to charge from 60 to
80 per cent. profit on laborers, skilled
and unskilled, employed by them on
DAYS work contracts"
Under the code a contract cannot
be let TO any member who was not an
original bidder, nor for q figure less
than that OF the lowest original bid
Not even a member could offer to
take NNo lop at a lower Fate " DIGS
were asked for second time.
Mr.. Fertig admitted il was practi-
cally impossible for a builder to get
his marble work done except by d
member of the association.
Mr.. Fertig admitted that the New
York Marble Industry Association
adopted a resolution permanently
barring from membership any Nron-
tractor from outside the New York
district who ever had bid against an
association member on New York
district work.
2. Do you think that was right?
Wasn't 1t flying in the fitcc or the
law? \. l do not think of il as right
or wrong at the time. II was wrong.
| see II now.
The National Association at the
Mr.. Fertig said, issued courtesy
cards" asking National Association
members to LAY off" contracts which
we're desired by New York members.
In addition to asking for the increase
of the number Of Grand Juries CON
sdering criminal aspects of the Lock-
wood testimony to six. and the ap-
! pointmcnt of a force of thirty special
| Assistant District Attorneys and a
large staff of investigators, the conf
mittee has established a might shift
| Of lawyers and accountants to speed
| up the preparation Of material for pre-
sentation day by day. This work Is in
| charge of Deputy Attorney General
! Rich and former Assemblyman Bren-
nan OF Brooklyn, newly appointed as
sociate counsel.