The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-05
SAY S11,0OO PAID. BUILDING TRUST ID. WALK0UTS
Additional Testimony of Large Sums Paid President of Building Trades Council
 Is Given Committee
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New York, November 4-More house. wrecking and building contractors, ap- peared at today's hearing of the joint ex- ecutfve committee Investigating the building trust" and testified to the pay- nent of more than s11.OOo to Robert P. Brindell, president of the Building Trades Council, and his walking deie- gates, for the privilege of getting jobs and using union men on the work.
 Practically all of the witnesses told the committee that if they had not paid Brindell or his associates certain sums when demanded they would have been put out of the business" by strikes and labor troubles.
 When the hearing adjourned late today contractor, who had already testified to the payment of s4500 to Brindell, was still on the witness stand and had sev- erai cancelled checks in his hands for examination.
 Additional testimony to the payment of money to Brinfiell and his aides, who had in previous testimony been charged with receiving thousands of dollars from build CTS, came in rapid fire order near the CiOSe or the afternoon SeSSlOn.
 Louis Cohen, d house wrecker made the first revelation of the day when he tes- tified to paying Brindell S4,500 in sums ranging from s25o to 5000 for the privilege of getting contracts and working them with the councils men. He was followed by Israel s. Goldstein, another house wrecker, who said he had paid Brindeli s200 job, of which amount $5 was in check. The check, indorsed by Brindell, Urc c r,Io onnd fv, ntri
 The first direct testimony relating to the payment of money to BrindelPs walk ing delegates was given by Max Minen- son, a contractor who declared that he had paid two business agents, Peter Stadtmuller and George Moran. 5000 to get work started on a job He testified he understood that they wanted the money to pay BrndelI
 GOT QUICK RESULTS
 Jacob Kamen, another builder, told the committee that when work was stopped on one of his jobs, he had paid Moran $500 and work was started three hours later" Later, he said he gave Moran $50, when the walking delegate told him he had given the other money to Brindell, explaining that Eff I didn't give it, l wouldn't get along on the next job"
 One of the sensations of the day was the testimony of Henry Hanlein, cut stone contractor, whose $2,00o. 900 lime stone contract on the New York county courthouse was recently rescinded by Mayor Hylan. He testified that eight other contractors had been associated with him in the agreement, which he said had been engineered by John T. Hettrick, a lawyer whose offices were recently raid ed by the committe for evidence relat- ing to the "code of practice" by which bids are alleged to have been put through a central clearing house.
 Hanlein admitted that the contract price could have been reduced s70,00 or 5000 if it had not included "rake-off of s1s per cent on the total amount Of the contract, of which $ per cent was to go to Hettrick. $ per cent to MT Hutchinson, cut stone expert, r. per cent to the Greater New York Stone as- sociation and ? per cent to the code os practice insurance fund.
 All papers and estimates brought by the witness into the court room were confls- cated by Samuel Untermeyer, the com mittees counsel, who grilled Handlein for nearly three hours regarding certain items in the courthouse bid.