The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-28
"A. F. Of L. Building Split
PAGES Way for Pay Cuts
increasingly urisdictiOnal
Disputes Welcomed by
Employers

private industry, and that he aims
to carry through a wage cut on all
government jobs, as well as on the
jobs of the independent employers.
On jan %, all the newspapers
carried headlines that the s4,800.-
100000 to be spent on Public Work
and Relief projects, will be paid
out at wages much below the pre-
vailing scale. The proposed wage
is fifty dollars a month. When an
amendment was proposed in Con-
gress TO provide that workmen on
relief projects should receive the
wage rate prevailing in the local
community" it was voted down. and
the fifty dollars wage sanctioned
instead This wage, however, is ac-
ceptable only as far as Roosevelt
is concerned, but not to the build
ing trades workers. Many of the
Congressman voting against the pre-
vailing wage rate are supposedly
friends of organized labor" their
elections having been hailed as VIC
tories for organized labor, by the
officials of the Building Trades De-
partment.
The officials of the Building
Trades Department are not con-
cerned with wage cuts which will
affect the rank and file workers.
They are mostly interested in their
positions, in assuring for themselves
place in the Building Trades De-
partment, in making millions of
dollars out of the manipulations of
the Construction Code Department
and the Real Estate Board, and
from other sources closely connected
with the Construction Code De-
partment.
Membership Wants Unity
The rank and file workers in the
Building Trades Unions are not in
VOWED in the jurisdictional disputes.
They desire unity on the job and
in action. The building trades
workers realize that there are not
enough jobs for all building trades
workers. They are therefore de-
handing the establishment of I'M
employment insurance based on the
principles of H. R. 1927. The build
ing trades workers demand that all
construction jobs financed by the
government, or by independent en-
ployers be paid at the prevailing
union scale of wages They demand
that all members be given the right
Of free expression, that trade union
democracy prevail in all unions, and
that the building trades jurisdic-
tional disputes be settled not in
/ Washington, in the chambers of the
McDonoughs and Williams, but be
settled at building trades con-
vention called by every Interna
tionsl union, where the jurisdic-
tional differences can be adjusted
by amalgamation of the existing
crafts. All agreements in the build
ing trades industry to expire at
the same time, a uniform wage scale
to be established for all skilled and
unskilled workers in the building
industry.
The building trades workers must
initiate a campaign in every single
International condemning the split
in the Department, calling upc'> the
election of a special convention to be
membership to participate - the
attended by rank and file delegates
of the Building Trades unions. The
special convention should drive out
the corrupt politicians of the de-
partment and replace them with
honest rank and file members who
are fighting against every atte4np,
of the employers or the government
to cut wages, and who will carry on
struggle for the establishment of
an unemployment insurance system.