The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-04
Builders Exchange Called for
Detaming Character Of Paint
ers' Union Business Agent,
LABOR DEMANDS SEARCHING
INVESTIGATION OF CHARGE
But "0pen Shop" Secretary
Dodges Question and Lays
:: Blame TO Master Painter.

"The campaign of the: anti
unionists is 'fraught with daNyer
from every aspect. It. kindles
class hatred. It creates doubt,
suspicion and envy. It disorgan-
ICES society. It creates malice be-.
tween men where there should be
friendship. It interrupts produc-
tion and throws all industry off
it's balance. 1t is most injurious
to the city,
The. foregoing declaration is made
by the Federated Trades assembly
against the Citizens Alliance and the
Builders Exchange. In March the
Builders Bulletin" which is pub
lished by the Builders Exchange, con-
tanned an article charging that thst
business agent of the Painters union
had charged a. certain master painter.
one dollar for every man furnished
him.
|: Assembly Takes Action.
The charge was called to the at
tention of the Federated Trades as
sembly, which directed its executive
committee to make, a searching inves-
tigation. The committee submitted
its report to the regular meeting held
last Friday evening. The delegates
ordered that the report be published
in full In the papers. 1t is as fol-
lows: ....> 80 |..... ....:...,. -: -: =.
F Your executive committee, to which
WAS referred. a paragraph appearing
in. the Builders Bulletin under date
of March 28, 1921, which evidently
| was intended to reflect upon the in
tegrity of the business agent of the
Painters Union, begs to report that
a communication was sent to Mr.. r.
w. Armstrong, secretary OF the Du-
luth Builders Exchange, under date
| of April 9, asking for his co-opera-
ton to- make an investigation Of the
charge made in the Bulletin. The
communication was as follows:
T. Courts Cooperation.
AT: a meeting of the Federated
Trades Assembly held last evening, the
attention of the Assembly was called
to- a paragraph appearing in The
builders Bulletin of March 2S, 1921,
and under the title, Building Investi-
gation,' from which the following
paragraph is quoted:
I In Duluth we have had only one
report of a business agent trying to
shake down an employer, that being
Fpresented last fall by one Of the mas
ter painters, and we hope that there
is no combination in Duluth whose
| OneratiOns would tend to u,,estioo
the honesty Of the building industry.
If there is. same should be discov-
cred and set right at. once, in order
that the necessary building in Duluth
may progress
This is taken as a direct attack
upon one Of our members, whoevsr
it may be. There were only four
business agents employed last year by
the building trades unions. The
Trades Assembly voted to cause an
investigation to be made and the ex-
ecutive committee was directed to do
so. If there are any dishonest mem
bers shaking down employers we
want to know it, in order that ouY
ranks may be purged Of them. y
Who Is the Man?
1--WE, therefore. most respectfully
call upon you to supply us with the
name of the master painter and O:
the business agent or any other mem.
ber of organized labor referred to in
the paragraph above quoted. The la.
bor unions of Duluth, we have al
ways believed, were pretty free from