The Connecticut labor news., 1921-11-04
BUILDING TRADES
 WARNED AGAINST A
 FAKE" COAST ADV.
No Work on the Pacific Slope, Says Los Angeles, and Builders Are
 Given Caution.

Warning was received by local building trades organizations this week against an advertisement being spread through the east ostensibly seeking building tradesmcn for work on the Pacific Coast. There's no work out there in that line, not only as stated in the warning, but as can be proved by the experience of two members of the New Haven local of the Bricklayers Union who are now out there and have been for nearly a year. The warning, which comes from the Los Angeles Building Trades Council, is as follows: Interruptions employers, whose avowed object is 10 cut down the wages and living conditions of work CTS, have been advertising that Cali fornia needs thousands Of mechanics of the building trades.\ Following is such an advertisement, and what the estigation of it showed:
 "San Bcrnardino, Californit, Sep tembcr 7. To the World-Califor- mia is in need of 5000 to 10000 brick layers, plastcrcrs and carpenters. Please send men of these trades to us 10 take care of the building boom which is on this winter Signed, w. D. Anderson. Company, decp-wcll drilling contractors and manufacture CTS"
 Jack Ridge, Plasterers No. busi- ness agent, and Murray F. Richard son and E. ]. Newton of the Car penters District Council, investigated the above ad. and have made an affi- davit to the following:
 Anderson denied 10 Us that he had put ads in the eastern papers. We 1N1o of ho galvanizcd-iron shed with bandSaw and some milling machinery, also some drilling apparatus. His signs were painted: w drilling Contract or, Second Hand Machinery for Sale or Rent" We found he had par tially completed a tWo-story frame house plastercd on the interior and exterior which he was building for | himself. He stated thai he was in tending 10. start another house across | the street which would also be d two story frame house Anderson stated that the mechanics in the building
 trades were getting altogether too much money and that we (meaning llmselD were going to advertise 10 get mechanics from the east in order to cut down wages. When asked | what lie meant by WE he stated the 1OIIlI dItOl ;. w [ dSkcu ul1n HOW
 many carpenters, plastcrers, and bricklayers he could use. He said he
 could use one carpenter in the next
 few days and would pay SC per day of nine hours to a frst-class finish carpenter. Could use a plastcrcr and bricklaycr when the work got ready and was willing to pay $8 per day of nine hours for these trades. "Whcn asked how he expected a man with a family could exist on a | wage of 50 a day, especially when many men are out of work, and con sidcring the high rents of the present time, he suggested that if rents were i'too high the men could buy tents for ] a small sum and live out in the open" " | (Winter is the rainy scason)
 The true condition in California can be seen from the fact that the i mayor of Los Angeles found it neces- 1 sary to call conference, October 0th, IO2I, to find ways and means to ! assist the thirty thousand men who
 are here no wand unemployed. Have these facts published in your local paper
 R. C. HUNTER, Pres. 1 GEO. A. WRIGHT, Sec,
 | Board of Business Agents. by lack | Ridoe Pres