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New York Electrical Workers' Union v. Chas. L. Eidlitz Co.-Current-carrying parts of switchboards.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AUGUST 10, 1906.-The Chas. L. Eidlitz Co. is ordered at once to comply with the provisions of section 19 of the electrical trade agreement and employ none but members of the New York Electrical Workers' Union to assemble the current-carrying parts of the switchboards on the Altman Building. New York Electrical Workers' Union v. Elevator Constructors and Millwrights' UnionInstalling electrical annunciators and car-lighting appliances.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 3, 1906.-The work of installing electrical annunciators and car-lighting appliances is in possession of the Electrical Workers' Union.

New York Electrical Workers' Union v. Elevator Constructors and Millwrights' Union— Running temporary feed wires to motors.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 12, 1906.-The work of running temporary feed wires to motors to run drills for hydraulic elevators is in possession of the electricians.

FIXTURE WORKERS.

ORIGINAL CHARTER CLAIMS AND JURISDICTION.

Fixture workers claim all wiring, assembling, trimming, hanging, and globing of gas, electric, and combination fixtures in or on any building. The cutting of all outlets, drilling of all holes for fastening of fixtures, and putting in of all extra fastenings that may be necessary to properly put up fixtures.

Helpers may do journeymen's work while actually employed in assisting a journeyman; under no consideration shall helpers be allowed alone on jobs.

DECISION OF THE GENERAL ARBITRATION BOARD OF GREATER NEW YORK.

New York Electrical Workers' Union v. Tiffany Studios-Hanging fixtures, Dr. Parkhurst's Church.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, MARCH 21, 1906.-The Tiffany Studios is instructed to employ members of the recognized Electrical Workers' Union on the work of hanging fixtures on the job in question.

PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL CLAY PRODUCTS TRADES.

The clay-products trades include brick, hollow tile, and terra cotta laying, clay slate for roofing, tile roofing, tile laying, including ceramic and encaustic tile decorations for both pavements and wall, and all plaster mixtures used as mortar or cement.

NUMBER OF UNIONS AND MEMBERS AND RATES OF WAGES IN PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL CLAY PRODUCTS TRADES, BY OCCUPATIONS, 1913.

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BRICKLAYERS, MASONS, AND PLASTERERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION.1

ORIGINAL CHARTER CLAIM AND JURISDICTION.

Bricklaying masonry shall consist of the laying of bricks in, under, or upon any structure or form of work where bricks are used, whether in the ground or over its surface, or beneath water; in commercial buildings, rolling mills, iron works, blast or smelter furnaces, in mines or fortifications, and all underground telegraph, electric, and telephone conduits where a trowel and mortar is used, or other work requiring the labor of a skilled person. Fireproofing, block arching, terra cotta setting and cutting, and the setting of all cut-stone trimmings on brick buildings is considered bricklayers' work, for which the regular rate of wages of the locality must be charged, as the same is considered brick masonry.

Stone masonry shall consist of laying all rubble work, with or without mortar, setting all cut stone cut in yard or in quarries by stonecutters, when the same is covered by stone; cutting all shoddies, including all broken ashlar, rock-faced ashlar, range or random ashlar in the rough, jambs and corners, and laying the same.

This is to apply to all work on buildings, sewers, bridges, railroads, or other public works where the same can be controlled by the union in locality; and to all kinds of stone, particularly to the product of the locality where the work is to be done.

BRICKLAYERS AND MASONS-NEW YORK JURISDICTION.

Members of the Mason Builders' Association must furnish their own mason materials for the building, and must include in their contract for a building all cutting of masonry, interior brickwork, the paving of brick floors, the installing of concrete blocks, the brickwork of the damp-proofing system, and all fireproofing-floor arches, slabs, partitions, furring and roof blocks, and they shall not lump or sublet the installation, if the labor in connection therewith is bricklayers' work as recognized by the trade, the men employed upon the construction of the walls to be given the preference. The installation of the fireproofing must be in progress before bricklaying is begun on the topmost story of any building in course of construction. They shall not lump or sublet the laying up of the front, if same is of brick or terra cotta.

The building of sewers, telegraph, electric or telephone conduits up to and including what is known as the four-way ducts, where a trowel and mortar are used, must be done by bricklayers.

That all cutting of masonry be done by those best fitted for the work and that the members of the Mason Builders' Association make the selection; but cutting of all brickwork, fireproofing, terra cotta, concrete arches, and partitions, as well as the washing down and pointing up of front brickwork and terra cotta, shall be done by bricklayers.

If the jambs of an opening have to be rebuilt, the cutting out of the toothing for bonding the new jambs to the old work shall be done by bricklayers.

If any brick have to be cut on the building, this cutting shall be done by bricklayers. (No member of these bricklayers' unions shall work for anyone not complying with all rules and regulations herein agreed to.) No laborer shall be allowed upon any wall or pier to temper or spread mortar which shall be delivered in bulk, said mortar to be spread with a trowel by the bricklayers, who shall work by the hour only.

DECISION OF THE GENERAL ARBITRATION BOARD OF GREATER NEW YORK.

Bricklayers' Union v. Tile Layers' Local No. 52-Setting of terra cotta and backing up with brickwork.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, MAY 13, 1908.—The work in question, setting of terra cotta and backing up same with brickwork, is in possession of the bricklayers.

1 This is the only international union which is a party to the plan and not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF HOD CARRIERS AND BUILDING LABORERS OF AMERICA.

ORIGINAL CHARTER CLAIM AND JURISDICTION.

Wrecking of buildings, excavating of buildings, digging of trenches, piers, and foundations, holes, digging, lagging, sheathing of said foundations, holes and caisson work, concrete for buildings, whether foundations, floors, or any other, whether done by hand or any other process, tending to masons, mixing and handling all material used by masons (except stone setters), building of scaffolding for masons' plasterers, building of centers for fireproofing purposes, tending to carpenters, tending to and mixing of all material for plastering, whether done by hand or any other process, clearing of débris from buildings, shoring, underpinning and raising of old buildings, drying of plastering, when done by salamander heat, handling of dimension stones.

JURISDICTION AWARDS OF THE BUILDING TRADES DEPARTMENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR.

Hod Carriers and Building Laborers v. United Brotherhood Carpenters and Joiners of America.

BUILDING OF SCAFFOLDING.-The building of scaffolding for plasterers, bricklayers, and masons where carpenters' tools are not required, where such scaffolding is not framed, spliced, bored, nailed, or put together in such manner requiring skilled labor, belongs to the laborers' organization, but where scaffolding is built, and where carpenters' tools are required, then the work belongs to the carpenters.

THE BUILDING AND Setting of CENTERS.-The building and setting of centers where scaffold plank is used exclusively on flat floor arches and where carpenters' tools are not required belongs to the laborers.

All other forms, centers, and arches where carpenters' tools are required belong to the carpenters.

THE SHORING AND UNDERPINNING OF BUILDINGS, The shoring and underpinning of buildings where carpenters' tools are required belong to the carpenters.

American Brotherhood of Cement Workers v. International Union of Hod Carriers and Building Laborers.

[Decision of the Tampa Convention, Building Trades' Department of the American Federation of Labor, adopted October, 1909. See printed proceedings Tampa Convention, pages 130 and 131.]

We, your committee, recommend that where there are existing agreements between the American Brotherhood of Cement Workers and International Union of Hod Carriers and Building Laborers they shall remain the same, but we concede the right to the cement workers to control all laborers working exclusively at the cement industry.

DECISION OF THE GENERAL ARBITRATION BOARD OF GREATER NEW YORK.

Bricklayers' Union for Laborers v. T. New Construction Co. and Composition Roofers— Hoisting roofing material.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, JANUARY 20, 1909.-The work cited in the complaint is in the possession of both the composition roofers and the Laborers' Protective Society with equal rights.

OPERATIVE PLASTERERS' INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

ORIGINAL CHARTER CLAIM AND JURISDICTION.

All plastering, plain and ornamental, when done with stucco, cement, lime mortars, or patent materials, artificial marblework, and compo work in all its branches.

All moldings in permanent buildings must be run in place and the ornament placed and pointed by practical plasterers.

(Practical plasterers are men who are proficient in the use of the hawk and trowel and other implements or tools of the trade.)

No member of this association will be allowed to put up staff that can be run. All staff shall be classed as plastering.

Believing that the Operative Plasterers' International Association is an organization that stands for the protection and advancement of the plastering industry throughout the United States and Canada, whether it is done by its old and usual system of plastering or for the purpose of ornamental decoration. And considering that the aforesaid industry and products could not be controlled for the best interests of the members of the Operative Plasterers' International Association unless the producers of any of the said industries are likewise controlled by the same organization. That it shall be the duty of every local affiliated with the Operative Plasterers' International Association to organize as speedily as possible all workers following any of the branches of the plastering trade, and especially those that follow the ornamental plastering branch of the trade, including the modelers, by either forming new locals or by taking them into their own locals.

It shall be the duty of the organizers, wherever possible, to organize locals of modelers, and when any locality has not sufficient modelers to form a local make all effort to have them affiliate with local Operative Plasterers' International Association.

No member of this association shall be allowed to use models or cast from models unless same have been made by modelers affiliated with the Operative Plasterers' International Association. In localities where no union modelers are employed, or boss modeler does his own modeling, members of Operative Plasterers' International Association can handle work as furnished, but under no condition shall we recognize any combination of modelers to enter a combination of partnership to defeat the provisions of this act.

All models produced by members of the Operative Plasterers' International Association must bear an embossed stamp that will reproduce itself on all casts taken from such models, said stamp to be copyrighted and bear a number that will designate the employer using same.

No members of the Operative Plasterers' International Association shall use or handle any models or casts that do not bear such stamp.

No union modeler or shop hand shall do work for any contractor who is unfair to the Operative Plasterers' International Association.

All interior or exterior plastering of cement, stucco, stone imitation, or any patent material, whether cast or worked in place, also corner beads when stuck, must be done by practical plasterers of the Operative Plasterers' International Association. This includes the plastering and finishing with hot composition material in vats, compartments, or wherever applied; also the setting in place of cork plates, and the application of any plastic material to the same must be done by members of the Operative Plasterers' International Association who are practical plasterers.

It is agreed that on walls upon which a foundation or base coat is put on must be put on by the plasterer, and ample room shall be allowed for a final coat of not less than three-eighths of an inch to be put on by the tile layer so as to give sufficient bed for the placing or sticking of tile or mosaic.

JURISDICTION AWARDS OF THE BUILDING TRADES DEPARTMENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR.

American Brotherhood Cement Workers v. Operative Plasterers' International Association. Agreement entered into between the representatives of the Operative Plasterers' International Association and the American Brotherhood of Cement Workers at the headquarters of the Building Trades Department on January 16, 1909:

The Operative Plasterers' International Association claims for its members all exterior and interior plastering, whether of stucco, cement, or any patent material, when done in and by the usual methods of plastering.

We contend the covering of all walls, ceilings, soffits, piers, columns, or any other part of a construction of any sort, when any part of said construction is covered with any plastic material in the usual methods of plastering, is the work of the plasterers. The above claim is recognized by the representatives of cement workers as not to apply to the construction of any concrete work in building, erection, or the forming or casting of asphalt or cement blocks, nor does the term "compo" employed in the above claim refer in any manner to concrete construction.

It is further agreed that sanitary base not to exceed 6 inches in height when run in connection with cement floor shall be the work of cement workers.

Ceramic, Mosaic, and Encaustic Tile Layers and Helpers' International Union v. Operative Plasterers' International Association.

This agreement made and entered into by the Operative Plasterers' International Association and the Ceramic, Mosaic, and Encaustic Tile Layers and Helpers' International Union for the purpose of defining the demarcation lines of jurisdiction covering the preparation of walls and ceilings for reception of tiles:

First. It is agreed that on all walls upon which a foundation or base coat is put on by the plasterers ample room shall be allowed for a final coat of not less than threeeighths (3) of an inch to be put on by the tile layers to act as a binder and regulator for the float coat upon which the tile is placed.

Second. It is also agreed that the plasterers shall use only sand and cement in preparation of walls for work above stipulated.

Third. It is further agreed and understood that this shall not interfere with the right of the tile layers to do all scratch coating on small jobs of one or two ordinary bathrooms.

Fourth. It is further agreed that no scratch coating shall be put on except by mechanics of either trade.

NEW YORK JURISDICTION-AGREEMENT

BETWEEN THE EMPLOYING PLASTERERS'

ASSOCIATION AND THE OPERATIVE PLASTERERS' INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION. SECTION 1. All plastering on lath shall be known as three-coat work-scratch coat, brown coat, and hard finish. All scratch coat to be thoroughly dried before being browned. On concrete, fireproof or brick, it shall be two (2) coats-brown and hard finish. All plaster plates to be browned with gauged mortar or patent material and finished.

SEC. 2. When patent cement is used for scratch coat, it must be properly set before the brown coat is applied.

This clause to be governed by any existing written agreement between the Tile Layers' International Union and the Operative Plasterers' International Association. SEC. 3. It shall be permissible to lay off work on alteration and repair jobs when not calling for more than half the alteration. When laid-off work is permissible, it shall be done with gauged mortar, mixed in the proportion of one (1) part plaster to five (5) parts mortar or patent plaster.

SEC. 4. All work must be done in a thorough workmanlike manner and as per plans and specifications, and all journeymen must complete the work in such a manner or be compelled to make it right on their own time.

All employers shall furnish screed rods, darbies, cornice rods, feather edges, and all facilities necessary. On all jobs where scaffolds are erected in rooms, mortar boards, when it is practicable, shall be put on scaffolds. Moldings or coves shall be run with a regular mold and run on rods.

Members of the unions who are parties to this agreement, when browning, shall have the right of raising the mortar board to the height of 10 inches from scaffold.

SEC. 5. All columns, whether of cement or other material, before being browned shall have rings of the proper dimensions.

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