Evening star., 1934-06-26
Action Follows Settlement
of Dispute Between PIas-
terers and BrickIayers.
INJUNCTION is DENIED
BY JUSTICE 0'DON0GHUE
Union Leaders Declare Court De.
cision Has Clarified Inter.
national Agreement.

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triplet buildings in the Federal tri-
angle was called of today following
a decision in District Supreme Court
late yesterday settling a jurisdictional
dispute between the operative plas-
terers and the bricklayers' unions.
Union men who had been called
of their jobs through a strike In
sympathy with the operative plas-
terers were given instructions through
M. j. McDonough, president of the
Building Trades Department, and
John Locher. secretary of the Wash
ington Building Trades Council, to
return to work.
Injunction Denied.
Justice D. w. ODonoghue, in q de-
cision in the case, denied the injunc-
ton sought by the operative plas-
terers against the bricklayers, but in
terpreted certain agreements between
the two international unions In such
a way to be satisfactory to the plain
tiffs.
President Colleran of the operative
plasterers said the judges decision
granting the setting of this disputed
accoustical stone in the Government
Auditorium to the bricklayers' union
was accepted by the operative plas-
terers. who would not appeal the case.
I'VE feel that the judges decision nNs
clarified the international agreements
we have" Colleran said, "and that
he was very fair, judicial and expert
in his interpretations Of the agree
ments."
Complications Develop.
Meantime a complication arose
which threatened to keep all the
building trades from returning to the
triplet buildings. Business agents OF
several unions conferred with con-
tractors protesting non-union painters
who had been put on the job yester-
day and today by Anthony Helms
bergen Of Los Angeles, who has a
separate contract with the Govern
ment for decorative painting of the
buildings. Heinsbergen, it was ex-
planned. had been asking the painters
union for 80 days to supply him with
union painters so that he could pro-
ceed with his contract. The painters
refused to work because of the gen.
eral strike called by McDonough.
Yesterday morning, it is understood
Heinsbergen put to work about 20
men at a wage equal to the union
scale and 7-hour day.
The painters union protested en-
ployment of these men.
Sought to Aid Plasterers.
The general strike had been called
by McDonough on the Interstate Com
merce Commission, Department of
Labor and Government Auditorium
Buildings in support of the contention
OF the operative plasterers. When
the Judge denied the Injunction
sought by the plasterers, McDonough
Immediately called off the strike,
In his decision, Justice O'Donoghue
said:
In the opinion of the court. it is
very commendable that the Iabortne
man and the labor union should seek
justice in the courts in an anicable
way and not resort to violence or
breaches of the peace.
The court appreciates in this case
that the livelihood of many beings is
at stake. In other words, underlying
this controversy is the great struggle
for existence that has been going on
from the beginning of time since man
first appeared on this earth. I Is
severe struggle. and sometimes a
struggle to death. There are only two
ways in which it can be made less
tragic and less awful in its conse-
quences, ano that is by men endeavoi-
ing to deal justly with one another
and by men going further VINO have
more of the goods of this world than
they need and aiding those who have
fewer worldly goods than they need.
The court holds that the agree
ment of February 81, 1880, covers a
different subject matter than the
agreement of July IL, 1929: that both
OF these agreements are in full force
and effect, and that both plaintiffs
and defendants are bound by them.
Accordingly, the court will sign a
decree dismissing the bill of COM
plaint."
Attorney William E Leahy argued
The Employing Plasterers' Associa-
ton was to hold a meeting this after
noon to discuss settlement of the
strike now in progress. Union plas-
terers. who are paid $150 an hour,
are striking for an increase to $1.75
per hour.
Although the union carpenters
strike was settled recently at a wage
of 81 rs per hour and a 40-hour week,
there is still a carpenters wage dis
pute in progress relating to carpen-
ters who work on public works con-
tracts. Some contractors are offer
ing these men $l.10, the minimum
for skilled labor fixed by the Public
Works Administration. These carpen-
tiers have appealed for sl25 an hour
to the Board of Labor Review Of the
P. w. A.
Herbert Woods Of the board said
that there would be a meeting the
latter part of this week, at which it
was hoped to settle this dispute.