The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05
Brin6ll's Copanners in
Building Graft TO Face
Juries at Early Dates.
AFTER EIDLIT.Z'S SCALP
Untermyer Demands Reor-
ganization of Employers
and Workers Unions.
BAN ON BUSINESS AGENTS
Labor Car in Tombs, De-
serted by All Except Brother,
to Appeal Conviction.

With Robert p. BrindeIl. car of this
building trades unions, looking out
from q Tombs window, preparations
for the trial of the mass of other cases
growing out of the Lockwood COM
mittee's inquiry into criminal condi-
tons underlying the housing shortage
went forward yesterday with a rush.
With the issuance OF statement in
which he demanded the ousting of
Otto NJ. Eidhtz. Samuel 3. Donnelly
and Charles Kelly from their positions
of power il, the Building Trades En-
ployers Association, and put forward
plan for reorganization of this as
ISOLATION and Of BriNdell's Building
Trades Council along acceptable lines,
Samuel Unteruyer, volunteer chief
counsel to the Lockwood committee,
also announced that the next impor-
tant building trades trial will begin
next Tuesday morning Immediately
after Brindell has been taken before
Supreme Court Justice John. V. Nc
Avoy for sentence.
This will be the first trial Of John
IT. Hettrick. organizer of various groups
of contractors who boosted prices
through his system of cousliyance IN
submission of bids. Although there are
several indictments hanging over his
head, the prosecuting staff hhi elected
to take him before the court first on
one which charges him with having con-
LII Inn .1xalD
and friends OF Brindell to coerce con-
tractors into Joining his bands OF price
boosters Henry l.. Stinison, formerly
Secretary of War, who recently accepted
an invitation TO join the special stan
of building trades prosecutors. VIII con-
duct the prosecution in person. with Inc
assistance of Kenneth NJ. Spence.
hacker to Face Jury Again.
1t also was announced that Mr. Un-s
termyer personally will place Georgel
Backer. builder. on trial again on
charges OF PERJURY growing out OF MS
testimony before the LOCKWOOD COM
n,ittee when he swore that he was un-
able TO give the names of the person
or persons to whom he paid $2s'ooV
bribe. which resulted in the sudden end
ing of a strike which had peen caiieo
bv Brindell. BaclSer's recent trial, whfch
resulted in a Disagreement OF the jury
was held in the Court OF General pes
sions. but Mr.. Unterunyer will prosecute
him This time in the Extraordinary
Term of the Supreme Court AT the
last trial Backct was prosecuted by
Emory r. Buckner and STANLEY Renter
All of the other building indictments
u-;fh their 222 defendants, and SUED
further charges as may be MADE py
grand iurics still working on the housing
inquiry. are to be tried. ACCORDING 10
counsel as rapidly as court rooms ana
b,ries can be obtained. so that thewe viii
be a steady flow Of them for weeks 70
come.
In his public statement Mr.. Untermyer
scored the American Federation OF
Labor for Sinking it's duty In peruut-
ting this den of thieves 10 exploit the
huiidiny industry" and said that it's Off
Gals must take hand Immediately ir
sthe long neglected obligation" OF reor-
rsnizing the building trades laborers.
.They are men OF splendid Integrity
and high purpose. whom | have learned
to respect and admire" he said or the
officials of the American Federation OF
Labor. but they are too tirnid and
bureaucratic In their methods. The Build
ing Trades Council should be put back
in the building trades department OF
the American Federation OF Labor, and
its government should be democratized
10 conform to that of other unions con-
nected with the federation. SO that the
workers in their local unions will again
have the selection of their own repre-
sentatives and will know what is. going
on.
"Laymen from among the workers
themselves in the unions must replace