Evening star., 1921-06-12
Building Trades Vote Means
Suspension of Union With
$4,000 Members.
G0MPERs DEPL0REs ROW,
GIVING HOPE TO ENEMIES
Rupture Follows Refusal Of With
drawing Body to Comply With
Jurisdictional Award.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, June 11.-Delegates
Of the United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
and Joiners Of America, representing
more than $4,000 workers. today with
drew from the convention Of the Build
ing Trades department Of the American
Federation Of Labor. when q resolution
was adopted suspending any inter-
national union that failed to comply
with the awards Of the national board
OF jurisdictional awards.
Nothing sadder has come to my at
tention in a considerable time than what
have witnessed today" said President
Samuel Gompers of the federation. in
an address to the convention. following
the withdrawal Of the carpenters j.,
Il ask you to think for yourselves
for moment now" he added, what
will be the course pursued by the
enemies OF labor? What will there
be flung to the world in America as
vention? 1t will mako tho fight all
the more difficult; it will make this
struggle all the harder: it will not
bring courage or encouragement to
the great masses of the organized
and it will not bring hope or en-
couragement to the unorganized Of 4
possible united labor movement.
GomDers "Profoundly Sorry"
Il am deeply and profoundly sorry
and would not be true to you.
would not be true to the labor move
ment Of our country and I would not
be true to myself did I not express
myself as have DONE"
The labor leader said that the ar
guments on both sides were convinc-
ing. lucid and intelligent, but, he
said, the human element" had been
forgotten. He said that he had re-
garded the national board of juris-
'dictional awards with the greatest
satisfaction and fully realized its me-
cessity. He said. however, that It
had questions that could not be set.
tied for all time. no matter what was
devised.
President Donlin Of the department
said that the executive council Of the
department would attempt to get 4
meeting with the carpenter5 execu.
tive body and learn whether 1t In
tended to live up to the boards de-
cision. IF they don't, they will be
suspended" he said. .,
Union suspendeA Before.
The carpenters unio on. which Is the
largest union in the building trades
department and the second largest in
the federation. has twice before with
drawn or been suspended from the
department because Of jurisdictional
controversies.
The official roll call showed that IL
the carpenters delegates. who de-
clined to vote, had cast q ballot the
resolution for the suspension Of
unions defying the board would have
been lost by six votes.
I'VE consider ourselves suspended
and have no intention of appealing
from the conventions action" said
President Hutcheson Of the carpen-
ters this afternoon. I'VE will func-
tion, progress and prosper as we al
ways have done without the aid of
the building trades department.
Seorns Federation Aid.
IF they want to suspend US from
the American Federation Of. Labor
they can do that too. We can get
along without that afiliation and
save money. We don't need their
help"
President Hutcheson declared that
there could be no compromise settle
ment Of the controversy.
Labor leaders said that the laws
Of the federation provided that mem.
Der unions must have aflliation in n
trades department. In this event the
carpenters will face suspension from
the federation also.
Dispute Over Jarisdietion.
The resolution. which was adopted
after a stormy debate. vas directed
at the carpenters union. because OF
its refusal to comply with the award
rendered against it by the board in
it's jurisdictional dispute with the
sheet metal workers. union. Previous
to the adoption Of the resolution the
convention indorsed the work Of the
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