Evening star., 1934-06-14
BUILDING TRADES
| ASK ARBITRATION
George A. Fuller Co. Is First
to Accept Proposal
to End Strike.
Continued From First Page.)

TWO carpenters from going to work
on the foundation forms Of the new
Woodrow Wilson School. Fortieth and
Chesapeake streets There were no
threats. When the men would not
be convinced, some one on the project
called police, but the union SYM
pathizers had disappeared when o
squad arrived from No. precinct.
Commissioner Allen was being kept
closely advised Of the situation by
his assistant, Ross Haworth, who made
tour Of inspection Of all affected
projects.
The contractors are determined to
break the carpenters strike with the
offer of $1.10 an hour for an eight
hour day. The Carpenters Union
on the other side, backed by the
washington Building Trades Council
and their own international officers, is
determined to enforce the strike for
an increase to $l.371a an hour and a
six-hour day.
Virtually the only difference between
the Master Builders Associations po-
sition and that of the general con-
tractors here Is that the association
says the new situation is open shop"
while the latter denies It is open shop,
claiming it is only adherence to the
Public Works Administration rate for
skilled workmen. They are all paying
the same rate of $110 an hour for an
eight-hour day.
The carpenters international presi-
dent, William L. Hutcheson Of Indian
apolis, was understood to be ready to
call union carpenters of jobs of all
contractors who had entered into the
new effort here to break the local
strike. Several Of these large firms
here have important construction jobs
scattered over the United States.
The big contractors, it was said,
had gone into the fight with the un-
derstanding that such a move prob
ably would be taken by the carpen-
ters' union.
While contractors claimed many
carpenters went to work on several
jobs throughout the city, the union
was making a check-up through its
Picket Committee and was planning
to report at the special meeting OF
the Washington Building Trades
Council.
The Fuller Co., which has three
large Federal jobs-the Supreme
Court Building, the Department Of
Justice and Archives Buildings-waS
said to have employed some car
penters on all of these structures. At
the Supreme Court Building it was
understood the company had all the
carpenters it needed for the present.
Places Reported Filled.
James Stewart & Co., contractors
for the triplet buildings in the Fed
eral triangle-the Department of La
Dor, Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and Government Auditorium
reported it had put on all the car
penters it needed for the present.
Three carpenters went to work on
the Calvert Street Bridge, making
forms for pouring concrete. They will
work later on building sidewalks, in
preparation for opening the bridge to
pedestrians. The bridge, which re-
Gently was moved IN a spectacular
engineering feat by the John w.
Cowper Co., has been reopened for
street cars, but automobiles and Pc
destrians still are prohibited. 1t was
/ impossible to predict when the bridge
would be open to all, but there were
reports that it is hoped to open 1t to
automobiles tomorrow
The Consolidated Engineering Co. re-
ported it put four carpenters to work
at noon on building at Howard Uni
versity, and had engaged IL more to
start work tomorrow.
The McShain Co., Inc, reported 1t
was ready to start a few carpenters
| to work on the annex to the Con-
gressional Library, but had not yet
decided what to do about their Job on
the new addition to the Internal Rev.
enue Building, at Tenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue.
The B-W Construction Co. has re-
| fused to go along with the group Of
nine general contractors who are try
ing to break the strike. This COM
pany wrote a letter to John Locher,
secretary Of the Washington Building
Trades Council, explaining the posi-
ton Of the company, which is building
the addition to the City Post Of1ce.
James Baird Co., which is erecting
the Remington-Rand building at
| Thirteenth and F streets, stated it
put on no new workmen this morning,
but planned to put two carpenters to
work at noon.
Uncertain Of Origin.
In regard to the small fire which
endangered some beams supporting an
/ earth wall in an excavation yesterday,
officials said they could not determine
whether the blaze was of incendiary
origin. This company signed the off,
cial call for carpenters appearing IN
| yesterdays newspapers.
Police were seeking two men sus-
pected of attacking three workmen
yesterday at the Church of the
Reformation, East Capitol and Second
streets. Warrants were sworn out for
Joseph c. Hardy, 600 block of street
northeast. and Robert T. Reid, 500
block of East Capitol street southeast.
The warrants were obtained by J. B.
Latimer, a subcontractor on the job,
and two Of the assaulted workmen,
William A. Gray of 225-A Bates street
| northwest, carpenters helper, whose
nose was broken, and T. J. jackson,
union carpenter Of Silver Spring, Md.
The two suspects we're taken into
custody by police at Union Station
Plaza, but released at No. precinct
when police said that Jackson failed
to identify them as the men who hit
him. According to the contractor, the
two suspects carried union cards.
Two Of the injured men we're back
at work on the church this morning.
They were Jackson and Paul Frank
houser, a lather, of the 900 block of
Massachusetts, avenue. But the most
seriously hurt, William Gray, carpen-
ters' helper, whose nose was broken
and who was almost thrown OF the
roof, remained at home.