The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-05-21
union Will BID
: FOR BRICK WORK
Brick|ayers Claim They Can
Save Money to Builders; Issue
} Strong Public Statement.

The Bricklayers Stone Masons,
Marble and Tile Layers union of Du-
luth will from now on bid on all
public and private bri or mason
work. on contract plus cost, or by
the day. Such declaration was
made by the officers early this week.
They also stated fully the position
of the union as to labor efficiency
and its conduct during the present
difficulty The statement is clear and
clean. 1t is as follows:
I'VE will guarantee to save you
the contractors profit. which is
needless expense to you. Why deal
with a contractor Who has to hire
us to do the work, VIII m you can
save to yourself the contractors
profit by dealing directly with your
mechanics? Why go to the Builders
Exchange and look for your mechan-
les: They have to go out and look
for them themselves. and you will
have to pay up to so hts an hour
more than if YOU dealt directly with
your mechanics.
Don't Limit Production.
you have been told our craft linz
its production. That is not true. 1t
is told you in order to discredit our
organization. Our days work has al
ways measured up to our days pay.
If it did not, how could it be toll
Grated by a contractor or employer,
when they have at all times the priv
ilege and right to discharge any or
all at any time they seem fit to do
50: And we will go with you fur
Their than that: If there SHOULD be
at any time cause for discharging a
man for not doing a fair days work,
our organization will approve of such
action. and if found incompetent re-
woke his membership. Our organi-
cation does not say who is, or who
Is not, going to learn the trade. We
only reserve the right to say whom
we will work with. If non union men
are preferred by the owner or con-
tractor. we only decline to work with
them-and who will deny US that
right?
Offered to Arbitrate.
Concerning the wage question:: We
offered the Builders Exchange to ar
bitrate. It was rejected, and we were
so informed. Do you think it profit
eering if we make from 5000 to $1,40O
a year? That was the average up to
1920. Our work is seasona1-from
six to seven months a year-and
never any straight time. We are
subject to more layoffs than any
other craft in the building line. The
bricklayer is subject to great risk
nearly at all times working on scat
folds, where he is under a great
strain. Nobody seems to appreciate
this. He must have perfect and good
eyesight-that's why young men are
preferred as apprentices.
Claims Are False.
1.-THE Citizens Alliance tries to poi
son your mind against our organiza-
ton by telling the biggest falsehood
that ever could be conceived by NOR
tai mind. They tell you non-union
bricklayers laid $500 bricks in eight
hours. Figure it out and you will
find they had to lay over seven bricks
a minute and keep that speed up for
brick walls, it was possible to throw
in, not lay. about 5000 per day. But
there are no more 24-inch walls OF
brick. In most cases today it is all
face work, four inches Of brick in
stead Of "a. and it takes more time
to lay face brick up against an out
of-plumb concrete wall than if you
had nothing to obstruct you, as, for
instance, residence. We will as
sure you our mechanics give you to.
day as honest a days work as ever
a man could give you.
Hit at ''Cost Plus.''
During the war, when nearly all
building was plus cost, it was in the
contractors interest to make it cost
as much as possible, and right here
stead of being supplied with brick
and mortar, they had to stand around
AMI wait for it, and even had to &C
and get the brick themselves. The
blame was placed against our mer
by the contractors. But let it bt
understood we will not aton7 for sin:
committed by the contractors. Dom
blame everything on the union work.
ingman.
Don't try to build up our city or
underpaid labor.
Don't envy workingman If hi
has a home instead Of a poorhouse
Don't go outside the state fol-
your mechanics when you can ge
competent taxpayers to do the work
on our schools and public buildings
Don't try to make out it i!
cheaper to use non-union men thar
union men. If you were honest 70,
would admit it costs you more.
Don't try to destroy the work
ingman's union if you like to pre-
serve your own"
ACCEPT NO CUTS.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 19-The build
ing trades council announces that n,
affiliated ,,nion hoe oaaon4.a xuaaa..a