South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09
STRIKERS OF BOTH
SIDES SATISFIED
WITH AGREEMENT
Open Shop and Increase in
Salary Are Two Cues
tiOns Settled.

The ending of the strike Of the
common laborers and hOd carriers
IN the building trade. here, Saturday
morning was satisfying TO both sides
.of the controversy according 90 eX-
pressions from employers and en-
ployes.
Elton Richter. head of the Hold
Carriers Building and Common La
bOrers union, local q. i'm state
ment, Saturday night said: Every
body il thoroughly agreed and all
are satisfied with the agreement.
There will be no difficulty for the
men who have been out on strike
TO go back 10 aork. There is work
for everybody"
Open shop.
The employers are satisfied that
the principle of open shop is pro-
vided for in the agreement I'm which
they have also guaranteed that mol
discrimination will be exercised a.
TO whether or not the labor employ
ed is union labor The members OF
local p are satisfied that they have
received an advance in wages per
hour.
L. s. Commissioner Fred L. Feick
left South Bend for the week end.
saturday afternoon, gratified that
the long series of series of confer
ences, submission of agreements and
then submission OF more agreements
had at last terminated in concila-
ton.
LabOrcrs Get Scale.
The laborers will receive g. IL
cents an hour and a nine hour day
while the open shop in the building
trades remains. the unions cOnCed
ing their original demand for a
closed shop. However union officials
regard the articles of agreement as
a distinct victory inasmuch as local
40 p was only recently organic q
and much advantage has been de
rived from the efforts of the lead
ers 10 receive recognition
In commenting on the settlement
Mr.. Feick said that the agreement
signed by the parties concerned set
Ties the entire labor situation i'm the
city as the wages of the other trades
associated with the common labor
ers are embodied i'm the government
Proposal.
1T is a source Of much gratinca-
ton that the factions agreed 10 our
proposals" said Mr. FciCk. and I
am certain that the unrest and diff
ficulties among the laborcrs will
now be terminated"
Comes rs Climax.
The settlement Saturday came as
a climax to "A series of threats as
associated crafts with the exception
OF carpenters and bricklayers wer
prepared 10 wallS-out in sympathy
with the laborers in a final effort
20 force the contractors 10 recognize
the demands OF the union. IL was
freely predicted that the city would
have been I'm the throes of a general
cessation Of construction work had
the negotiations failed 10 successful
~ end Saturday. The agreement fol-
lows:
we. the undersigned comEitteo
representing the local union. so -,
international HOdCarirers. Building
and Common LabOrcrs Union of
America. herewith agree with Fred
L. FeiCk, L. : commissioner of lab
or the. following wage scale and
working conditions as applied TO the
classes OF labor mentioned in the
WACO scale employed in the building
industry Of South Bend, Ind.
Wage Scale Settled.
Common laborers. O. 10 cents
per hour: concrete mixers. 20 cents
Ter hour, concrete towermen. 90
cents per hour; cement handlers. 90
cents per hour; mortar mixers and
hod carriers. IS cents per hour.
straw boss. so cents per hour; fore
man. 81 per hour: carpenter help
ers. ) cents per hour.
Time and one-half shall be paid
for all time over nine hours. Sat
urday afternoon. time and one-half.
Sundays. Decoration day. Fourth
OF July, Christmas, New Years, Lab
or day, double time.
Working Conditions.
.Ninc hours shall constitute
days work.
If business Is slack we agree 20
a reduction OF hours in order 10 lot
all men work. No work shall be
done on Labor day except 10 save
life. limb or property
The employers reserve the right
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