Annual supplement to the Labor compendium The Louisiana purchase centennial exposition . arbitration, whichhas had a salutary effect, through the publicity given it by The Compendium, inother cities who have copied after the St. Louis Council, and are now reaping thesame benefits, and realizing the great injury to the prosperity of our country tohave different systems of wages and working hours in different sections, creatingan unfair competition among building contractors and manufacturers of anddealers in building material, I fully realized that by joining all forces of buildingtrades with t
Annual supplement to the Labor compendium The Louisiana purchase centennial exposition . arbitration, whichhas had a salutary effect, through the publicity given it by The Compendium, inother cities who have copied after the St. Louis Council, and are now reaping thesame benefits, and realizing the great injury to the prosperity of our country tohave different systems of wages and working hours in different sections, creatingan unfair competition among building contractors and manufacturers of anddealers in building material, I fully realized that by joining all forces of buildingtrades with their several councils, creating new councils where none now exist,and have them all under the jurisdiction of a National Building Trades Council ofAmerica, great good could be accomplished by introducing, as far as possible, auniform scale of wages, and working hours, and by a system of arbitration, abolishstrikes and lockouts—at any rate, reduce them to a minimum. The matter was We advertise our Bread, and GUf Bread U/ITI I P RflFTTI PRadvertises us. Made by Y¥ t LLC DUt I I Lt R. W. p. PRICK, General Vice-President and General Organ- zer National Building-Trades Council, Carpenter, Dallas, Tex. ^,m-m,mm mmnm, ^^ai ^^ f MAI N AN D NORTH MARKE D EKMANN COAL CO. CHARcpAL i Tels. Bell, Tyler 357; KinlochC 580. placed before the Building Trades Council and unanimously endorsed, and I wasauthorized to proceed with the movement. Having received encouraging answersfrom several of the most prominent members of Building Trades Unions of othercities who had been consulted about the advisability of the undertaking, thematter was placed before the various councils in the United States, for a votev/hether in favor as to the time, meeting place of same, and to offer suggestions asto its representation, etc. The answers came in promptly, and all but two voted infavor of the movement, and the reason of those not in favor was that the time, con-sidering the industrial depression all over th
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