The New York herald., 1921-05-20
10 ADMIT GUILT AS
BUILDING GOUGERS;
JAIL TERMS ASKED
Brooklyn and Queens De-
PENDANTS in Housing Probe
to Hear Fate Thursday.
$16O FOR $50 IN WORK
Untermyer Rakes Up More
Cases Of Blacklisting by
Brindells Union.
$16O FOR $50 IN WORK
LARGE FIRM LOSES WORK
How Plasterers, Decorators
and Others Kept Prices Up
to Top Notch Is Shown.

and Others Kept Prices Up
to Top Notch Is Shown.
While nineteen more defendants,
members of the Brooklyn and Queens
group Of the Association Of Dealers in
Masons and Builders Material. were
pleading guilty yesterday to indict-
ments charging violation Of the State
antitrust laws before Justice Vernon
NJ. Davis In the Supreme Court q
dozen or moro witnesses were testify
ing before the Lockwood committee
bronze and ornamental iron workers.
the plasterers, painters, paperhangers
and decorators in maintaining building
costs at top notch levels.
OF the defendants pleading guilty to
indictments ten were individuals and
nine corporations. AS in the case OF
those sentenced last Monday to pay
fines, William A. De Ford. Special
Deputy Attorney General, made a Wig
orous plea for prison sentences. Jus
tice Davis asked for particulars re-
garding the amount Of business done
and the net profits and fixed next
Thursday as the date for sentence.
The testimony before the committee
for the most part was monotonous
repetition of the story of working agree
ncnts between unions and employers to
keep wages and prices up; of arrange
ments by which one contractor could in
definitely hold up work on a contract
under dispute until the case was settled
to his satisfaction OF restrictions in the
matter of subcontracts and the length
OF the working day and OF the effective
measures taken by the various employ
ers associations to enforce their de-
crees.
More Traces of Brindell.
Throughout the testimony was dis
cernible the influence Robert p. Brindell
exercised through his personally organ
ICED Building Trades Employers Assoc
citation. which saw TO 1t that Independent
painting contractors employing MEM
bers OF a union which Brindell sought
70 crush received few II any contracts
thereafter.
This phase of the labor situation re-
volved around row between Local
and District Council OF the Painters
and Paperhangers Union. District Council
. is the old organization Of painters.
paperhangers and decorators and with
drew from Brindelrs Building Trades
III L.. A.
elect delegates acceptable to him for
period of three years at a salary of SIS
n week. as the council demanded. In
stead 1t preferred 70 elect for one year.
and fix It's own salary scale.
Then, according to testimony adduced
through Alfred E. Joy, secretary-treas-
urer OF the Association OF Master Paint
ers and Decorators-a member Of Brin-
delrs Building Trades Employers As
sociation--proposals were put forward
for the organization OF a new union that
would be more amenable to Brindell's
control.
The following October at conven-
tion OF painters and decorators Brin-
dell. IL appears. read the delegates OF
the old District Council 3 out of meet
ing and recognized the representatives
~ the new Local 1. Subsequent testi-
mony showed that the breach between
The two organizations has been healed
partly. although some of the largest con-
tracing decorators are still under ex-
pulsion from the Building Trades EN-
ployers Association. and unable for that
reason. TO get contracts in New York
city.
Expelled for Too High Wages.
One OF these was w. r. Nelson e. Co.
0f Chicago and New York. admittedly
tie largest firm OF It's kind In the United
states. which last year did a business
~ about t2.ooo.o00. approximately one
fourth being In New York. Nicholas j.
Nelson son OF the founder of the firm
and head ~ the New York branch. testi-
fled that his concern had been a member
~ the Association OF Master Painters
and Decorators. but had been expelled
because It insisted on paying fifty cents
a day above the prevailing rate 70 paint
crx and decorators
Lawrence Y. Lamb. vice-prcsident OF
the concern. told the committee that
he had been told by . representative OF
the Fuller Construction Company that
that company Rad been requested not to
award the contract 70 rne Nelson COM
parry.
Tho chief development IN the examlna-
ton of Deisnd X vanderwicker. a for
rner secretary ~ tho Ornamental Bronze
and Iron Association. was that labor
which cost the contractors at the rate
~ $50 n week was charged for at the
rata ~ tiso.
The individuals who pleaded guilty
yesterday before Justice Davis were
Anar~w J. Brislin. iisoi Hillside ave-
nue. Richmond Hill John Wilson, 4b6
Fourteenth street. Brooklyn; Cornelius
A. McGuir~. ass Sterling place. Brook
iYn Audlcy Clarke. III Schermerhorn
street Brooklyn Frank -. Creemer.
broadway and Eighty-aSth street. Man
haf,sn stephen v. DUFFY. as Seventy
flrh street. brooklyn Frank Duffy, 433
@.Fventy-nixth street, Brooklyn Maillard
~ Canda, Garden city: Walter Q.
Howe i2s Milton street. Brooklyn
James ~. Ames gsii Scdgvick avenue.
The Bronx.
The corporations were ". w Bell
Company. Brcslir Company. Borough
building Material Company. Brooklyn
Builders supply Company. Audey
Clarke Company. J. " Duffy Company.
q. " Raymond a Co. Frank y. Creamer
a Co. Inc. and the Gustaye RAIDER Com