New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Untermyer Calls Meeting
of Lockwood Commit
tee, at Which All Sides
Will Be Asked to Testify
Lockout Decided
On i'm Case of Strike
Independent Chief Asks
injunction to Restrain
Ordering Walk Outs

| Three moves toward hating the
threatened tie-up Of building construc-
tion throughout greater New York,
| scheduled to 70 into effect to-day or
| tomorrow, were announced yesterday.
! The most important was action by
Lockwood committee, in calling q
meeting of that body for this after
noon in City Mall. This will be in
the nature of public hearing, at
! which, it was said, representatives of
all sides concerned will be called in
to testify and steps will be taken to
prevent a cessation Of building activi-
ties.
| In addition to this it was announced
by d. G. Dioguardi president of the
Independent Bricklayers' Helpers and
Building Laborers' Unoin of America.
that he had obtained Supreme Court
order in Brooklyn Saturday requiring
officials Of the Bricklayers' Union to
show cause as to why they should not
be permanently enjoined from calling
strikes on work where members Of that
union are employed, 1t was the call
| ing Of several such strikes by the
brcksayers, who favor a rival union,
the International Hod Carriers, Build
ing and Common Laborers Union of
America, which led the employers, said
to be partial to the independents"
to decide on a lockout, set either for
to-day or tomorrow, in the event the
strikes are not called off meanwhile.
To Ask Injunction
1t was also announced by Mr.. Dio-
guardi that he intends to apply in the
New York Supreme Court to-day for
another temporary injunction, this to
restrain the members Of the Mason
Builders Association and its parent
body. the Building Trades. Employers
Association, from discharging any "in-
dependents" at the behest of the brick
layers. The employers are said to be
IN. accord with this move. Il
Although the employers lockout or
der was at first scheduled not to 20
into effect until to-morrow, it was de-
clared by Frank e. Conover, president
Of the Mason Builders Association,
that in the event single Job is held
up by the bricklayers this morning the
order will be sent forward. In some
quarters this was interpreted as an at
| tempt to forestall any restraining ac-
tion on the part Of the Lockwood COM
mittee. which the employers, it was
learned, would resent
"The employers will not permit the
bricklayers to work on some jobs and
not on others said Mr. Conover.
This association has an agreement
with the independents to January /,
and IT we are not men enough to stand
by our contracts l don't want to be at
the head OF it any longer"
Urges Regulation of Unions
In connection with his announcement
of the Lockwood Committee action
Mr. Untermyer issued a statement in
which he said the situation furnished
proof of the necessity Of some form of
public regulation Of the activities of
labor unions.
"These unions" he said, "exist only
by legal sutferance and exemption
from the provisions Of the antitrust
laws, and rightly SO, in MY opinion;
but the law will have to define and
limit the range of their powers.
"They cannot be permitted to con-
tinue constant peril to our industrial
PEACE because of their internal dis
party end for which II is in no way
responsible
"'Tl.e unions have obligations as we'll
as rights, and it Is high time, in the
interest OF organized labor itself, that
these reciprocal duties be defined by
the law, without, however, in any way
interfering with their fundamental
right to quit work to better their con-
ditions in wages or hours Of labor.
THE power to penalize, the comn1u,,
nifty while they fight out their facticnal
oy5 j1gri a c&i iooaI dicn,1tas rarpnt f,a
longer tolerated, and should be taken
from. them. # theg cannot settle their
disputes except at public expense, the
law mus. do it for thenl.
To Recommend Legislation
''I will recommend to the committee
that legislation to that end be pro-
posed at the coming session. How far
we shall get in that direction, or how
much support shall have from the
committee is another question"
Contrary to previous announcements.
it was said yesterday by Christian G.
Norman, chairman of the board of gov
ployers' Association, that the lockout
will not Immediately affect all the 1885,
600 workers in the building trades nor
completely tie up building contraction.
He estimated that more than half their
number would be at once thrown out
OF work, however, with corresponding
cessation OF building operations.
'"There are quite number of jobs,
nc said, where the work hasn't reached
the bricklayers, who are the only work
ers named in the lockout order. When
the work on these gets to the brick
layers part OF it, of course, the jobs
Will automatically be halted"
He estimated it would be at least
thirty days before all buildings in the
greater city would thus be stopped and
all the 10000 be thrown out of work.
Three of the most importan jobs which
will be affected Immediately, he said,