The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-23
BUILDING BOSSES
PLAN WAGE CUTS
Union Heads Sell Out
to Big Contractors

unions of the A. F. of L. that they
will aid the bosses in their attempt
to crush the mass struggles of work.
ers that are developing.
eve do not want more, but less
building" demands the Journal of
Commerce, speaking of the crisis
meets, one of the leading capitalist
sheets in the country. They indi-
cate that the crisis in the building
industry should be approached by a
slash of wages.
The building bosses present at
Hoover's conference reported that
building has dropped 8 per cent over
last year throughout the United
States, and outlined their plan of
wage reductions.
Among the building capitalists
present were the leading enemies
of the building workers, all of whom
personally have carried on bitter
wage slashings.
The following contractors present
at Hoover's drive against the Amer
lean toilers have been propaganda
ing for low wages, and will now be
assured the support of the building
trades misleaders in the A. F. of
| L.
| Those present We're:
7. T. Flagler, American Associa-
ton of General Contractors, At
lanta, Ga; Sam Hotchkiss, presi-
dent of the National Association of
Builders Exchanges, st, Joseph,
Mo-; Frank H, Smith, president of
the Portland Cement Association,
Chicago; Harry H. Culver, presi-
dent of the National Association
of Real Estate Boards, Culver City,
Cal; MILFORD Kurth, former presi-
dent of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters, New York; Freder-
lex j. Reimer, president of the
American Board of Builders Asso-
citation, Orange, N. j.; Samuel Eek
! els, president of the American State
Highways Association, Harrisburg,
Pa; E. L, Carpenter, president of
the National Lumber Association,
Minneapolis; F. W. Reimers, presi-
dent of the Southern Pine Associa-
tion, Hammond, La; Arthur W.
Berresford, president of the Ameri-
can Engineering Council, Washing
ton, and w. M. Wood of the Ameri-
can Institute of Steel Construction,
Decatur, ILL.,.
A. Trieschmann, president of the
home undermining bureau of the
National Building Industries, Chi
cago; D. II, Rife, president of the
National Building Trades Employ
ers' Association, Pittsburgh, and A.
M. Levin, president of the Retail
Lumber Dealers Association, Gin
cinnati.
The building Trades Employers
Association is the foremost strike
breaking and wage-cutting body in
the building industry. 1t received
promises of cooperation from
Hoover and the labor fakirs in its
program of reduction of wages in
all sections of the building industry.
Severe resistance of the workers
will result in spite of the big be-
trayal by William l.. Hutchinson,
president of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer
lea, who spoke for the building
trades misleaders at Hoover's con-
! ference.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Recog-
nizing the permanent character of
the present economic depression,
Hoover has asked Julius H. Barnes,
chairman of the board of the United
States Chamber of Commerce to
organize standing body of imper-
ialists to consider unemployment and
production decline.
"a decline in the building indus
cry started a year ago in October"
pointed out Barnes. at seems to
be true that every recession in the
building construction industry is
followed by a recession in general
business"
Rarnes declared that the depres-
sion had hit all the basic industries
such as steel, building, shipbuilding,
textiles, oil and coal.
The United States Chamber of
Commerce has followed a consistent
policy of speeding up the individual
workers production and lowering of
wages. They are now united with
the American Federation of Labor
in their plans.