Evening star., 1934-06-16
Allen Announces Outlook
Bright, However, After.
Meeting Hutchison.
UNION LEADER Rejects
COMPROMISE FIGURE
Meetings Are Scheduled for Mon
day Morning and Night to
Decide Issue.

William L. Hutcheson, international
president of the Carpenters Union.
today conferred with District Com
missioner George E Allen on the car
penters' strike situation, but no settle
ment was reached.
The Commissioner is understood to
have proposed a compromise flgure,
which was rejected by the union
leader.
After the conference, however, Com
missioner Allen said things look
brighter" He declined to state upon
what he based this prediction.
Hutcheson, it was understood, 1ndi-
Gated the carpenters still are asking
Sl.S71s an hour, in contrast to the
sl.l0 an hour being paid by contrac-
tors here to men employed to break
the strike.
Compromise Is Seen.
Informal reports, circulated in ap-
parently reliable quarters today, were
to the effect the carpenters might be
preparing to negotiate for a COM
promise somewhere between $l.25 an
hour, the contractors last previous
offer, since withdrawn, and the
S1.371s demand of the union. The
question of the length of the week
still Is at issue also, the contractors
Offering a 40-hour week and the car
penters wanting 80 hours.
The contractors last compromise
offer placed the hourly wage at sl.25
and the work week at 80 hours, con-
sisting of four 8-hour days.
Meeting on Monday.
The Carpenters District Council
met last night to consider the gen.
eral strike situation.
What action, if any, was taken at
the session was not revealed, but ii
was indicated final decision on the
problems confronting the strikers had
been postponed until Monday night,
when a meeting will be held. At
that time. 1t Is understood, the pro-
posal of the contractors, submitted
at a conference with Commissioner
Allen yesterday, will be disposed of.
Meeting on Monday.
The Washington Building Trades
Council will meet at 10 am. Monday
to take up the strike situation and to
formulate a program. The council
held a meeting yesterday Immediately
after the conference at Commissioner
Aliens Office, but took no final action,
holding the question in allegiance until
after the week end.
The question now at issue Is in
volved in the latest reply of the con-
tractors presented at the Allen Con-
ference as follows:
IF and when the carpenters local
for their membership, who will be
bound by their acts, and who will re-
port to Commissioner Allen with the
committee with the same authority
meet them and Commissioner Allen" "
Merger Brings Comment.
Consolidation Of all building trades
of the country in the Building Trades
Department of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, announced yesterday
was the cause of much comment in
both labor and contracting circles
This important movement brings into
the department the carpenters, who
are on strike here, the brickmasons
who are involved in juriSdictionaI
dispute with the operative plasterers
on the triplet buildings on the Fed
eral triangle and the electricians.
Sooner or later, it is believed that
when the new set-up becomes more
fully adjusted, and in complete work.
ing order, it may serve to help settle
such jurisdictional disputes as have
caused difficulties here In the Federal
building program.
The suit filed by the Operating
Plasterers Union against the Brick
layers Union for an injunction in con-
nection with the jurisdictional dispute
on the triplet buildings, over laying
accoustical stone, was to have come
up for hearing yesterday in District
Supreme Court, but went over to
Monday.