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

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, pp. 130-131.]

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. 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.

NEW YORK JURISDICTION.

(a) All laying out of work, such as setting joists, laying strips or screed rods. (b) The laying and finishing of all cement-finished concrete basement, floors, yards, sidewalks, driveways, areas, and other surfaces where cement-finished surfaces or surface is laid; also where finer material is laid over rough concrete, where strips have to be set, material ruled down, or surface finished with cement masons' tools. (c) The construction of all glass vault or sidewalk lights, where same are set in cement, excepting the carpenter work, including pointing, facing, and finishing up of same when forms are taken down.

(d) The setting up all forms for steps, landings, platforms, coping, caps, and curbs, except where underforms or centers are required and the filling in of all fine material for facing of same, also the filling in of forms and molds where a fine coat is applied next to the molds.

(e) The running of all cement base.

(f) The applying of all cement mortar on walls, including the cutting, patching, and finishing of concrete fireproofing on walls, piers, and columns; the finishing in cement of concrete walls, piers, and columns; the applying of cement mortar for renovating, patching, and imitating of stone; the applying of cement mortar on exterior of walls for the purpose of preserving or protecting against the weather or other purposes; the applying of cement mortar for damp proofing, waterproofing, er sanitary purposез.

(g) The cutting, pointing, and all work in preparing walls for cement mortar. (h) The patching of all concrete arches, columns, beams, girders, and walls.

(i) The cutting of all concrete where cement finish is applied.

The applying and finishing of all material known to the trade as composition, floors, base, and wainscot.

(k) The setting of carpet pins and sockets in cement floors.

(1) Notwithstanding anything apparently to the contrary, all decisions of the General Arbitration Board as to jurisdiction of trade shall obtain.

AWARDS AND DECISIONS OF THE GENERAL ARBITRATION BOARD OF GREATER NEW

YORK.

United Cement Masons' Union No. 1 v. Journeymen Plasterers' Society and Fountain & Choate-Cement finished floor and stair work, Convent Avenue between 155th and 156th Streets.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, MAY 31, 1906.-Fountain & Choate are instructed at once to employ cement masons, members of the recognized union, in the finished floor and stair work on the job referred to in the complaint.

Plasterers' Council v. United Cement Masons' Union No. 1-Finishing of coal pockets. DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, MAY 29, 1907.-The work referred to in the complaint, namely, the finishing of coal pockets of cement or concrete construction, is in the possession of the cement masons.

United Cement Masons No. 1 v. Bricklayers' Union and Geo. Vassar's Son & Co.Cement finishing.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AUGUST 16, 1905.-It is the decision of the executive committee that Geo. Vassar's Son & Co. and the bricklayers' union violated the cement mason's trade agreement by doing cement finishing on the Schwab mansion. Journeymen Plasterers' Society, Ornamental Plasterers' Society, and Employing Plasterers' Association v. United Cement Mason's Union No. 1 and Master League of Cement Workers.-Running of base on interior walls and patching of concrete and cement arches and beam work.

ARBITRATORS' DECISION, MARCH 22, 1906.-The special arbitration board in the matter of the "disputes, differences, and controveries" between the Journeymen Plasterers' Society, the Ornamental Plasterers' Society, and the Employing Plasterers' Association, parties of the first part, and the United Cement Masons' Union No. 1, and the Master League of Cement Workers, parties of the second part, after careful consideration, is unable to agree as to "the work of applying cement mortar to the exterior of buildings.'

The special board, as to the other matters in dispute, finds as follows:

First. The applying of cement mortar on the interior walls of buildings, in the form commonly known as the "running of base" shall be done as follows: When the base is of the kind known as sanitary or curved base the work shall be done exclusively by cement masons. When the base is without a cove, commonly known as "straight base," the work shall be done by either the plasterers or the cement masons.

Second. The patching of concrete and cement arches and beam work with cement mortar shall be done exclusively by cement masons.

Cement Masons' Union v. McNulty Bros. and Plasterers' Union-Running of sanitary

base.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AUGUST 2, 1909.-That McNulty Bros. are instructed to employ members of the recognized union of cement masons on the running of sanitary base on the job in question.

Cement Masons' Union v. Plasterers' Union-Sanitary cove base, subway loop at Canal Street.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 27, 1909.-That the plasterers be directed to cease doing cement masons' work, in accordance with the decision of the special arbitration board in respect to cove base.

Plasterers' Union v. George A. Fuller Co. and United Cement Masons' Union-Applying finished coat of cement mortar to ceilings and beams.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, March 29, 1909.-The executive committee finds that when cement finish is put on the bottom of arches and on girders, spandrels, etc., by a skin coat floated on and troweled down, the work is in the possession of the plasterers, and where the arches are finished by a coating of thin cement applied by a brush it is in the possession of the cement workers.

United Cement Masons' Union on behalf of Cement and Asphalt Workers' Union v. F. T. Nesbit Co.-Installation of cinder concrete arches.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, MARCH 27, 1908.-The F. T. Nesbit Co. is directed to employ members of the Cement and Asphalt Workers' Union (cement masons' laborers) on the installation of the cinder concrete arches on the job in question.

United Cement Masons' Union v. John Thatcher & Son-Laying of cement floor termed "dolomite."

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, APRIL 1, 1908.-Mr. Thatcher is directed to employ cement masons, members of the recognized union, to perform the work in question.

United Cement Masons' Union v. Geo. A. Fuller Co.-Applying cement wash to concrete walls.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, JULY 1, 1908.-The Geo. A. Fuller Co. is directed to employ cement masons to perform the work in question, the applying of cement wash to concrete walls.

Plasterers' Council v. United Cement Masons' Union-Applying composition wainscot.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AUGUST 26, 1908. The work of applying the composition wainscot on the job referred to in the complaint (Blackwells Island job of Thomas B. Leahy Building Co.) is work that is in possession of the cement masons.

NEW YORK JURISDICTION OF THE CEMENT AND ASPHALT WORKERS.

The cement and asphalt workers claim jurisdiction over laborers for the mixing, spreading, leveling, ramming, and wheeling of all mixed concrete, cutting concrete when cement finish is not to be applied. Striking centers and handling floor fillers from elevator, except ash fill, and one man feeding concrete mixers. Handling or wheeling unmixed or dry materials, handling of all lumber, forms, reenforced steel, and all other labor in connection with cement or concrete work.

INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF COMPOSITION ROOFERS, DAMP, AND WATERPROOF WORKERS.

ORIGINAL CHARTER CLAIM AND JURISDICTION.

All forms of plastic slate, slag, gravel, and all kinds of asphalt and composition roofing, including rock asphalt mastic when used for damp and waterproofing, and all

prepared paper roofing, and all compressed paper, all chemically prepared paper, all burlap when used for roofing or damp and waterproofing purposes, with or without coating, and all damp-resisting preparations when applied with a mop, three-knot brush, or swab, in or outside of buildings, including all damp courses, sheathing or coating on all foundation work, also all tarred floors, also the laying of tile or brick, when laid in pitch tar, asphalt mastic, mormolite, or any form of bitumen.

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

International Brotherhood Composition Roofers v. International Union Slate and Tile Roofers.

Agreement entered into between the International Brotherhood of Composition Roofers, Damp, and Waterproof Workers and the International Slate and Tile Roofers' Union of America.

It is mutually agreed that all papering of roofs under slate and tile of one-ply thickness be allowed to the slate and tile roofer.

It is also agreed the prevailing condition with regard to promenade tile between the two organizations shall remain in force as it is at present.

Nothing contained in this agreement shall conflict with the agreement entered into at the St. Louis (Mo.) Building Trades Department Convention, between the International Brotherhood of Composition Roofers, Damp, and Waterproof Workers and the International Union of Slate and Tile Roofers.

Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paper Hangers of America v. International Brotherhood of Composition Roofers, Damp, and Waterproof Workers.

Agreement entered into by and between the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paper Hangers of America and the International Brotherhood Composition Roofers, Damp, and Waterproof Workers.

First. That the painters do not claim the right to apply any of the material claimed by the International Brotherhood of Composition Roofers except such material as is applied by a brush that is ordinarily used by the painters in applying the materials covered in their jurisdiction.

Second. That the International Brotherhood of Composition Roofers does not claim the right to apply any of the material in dispute except when applied by or with a three-knot, long-handled brush, mop, or swab.

NEW YORK JURISDICTION.

Jurisdiction shall include plastic slate, gravel, and all kinds of asphalt or composition, waterproofing, and damp proofing of substructures, floors, and roofs, including rock asphalt, mastic when used for waterproofing or roofing, the applying of all cork and wool fiber when used in conjunction with tar, pitch, asphalt, or any other composition; also the running or pouring of all pavements and brick with tar or asphalt, and the right to protect all roofing and waterproofing with concrete, the taking off and lowering down of old roofs, handling and hoisting of all material after delivery to job to be used in connection with the composition roofers' work. Truck drivers, yardmen, and stablemen need not be members of the union.

MISCELLANEOUS TRADES.

Under miscellaneous trades are grouped such occupations as have no relation to or connection with any of the several skilled trades. These occupations are fast becoming to be considered as among the semiskilled class, and as the building industry develops these occupations develop. The asbestos workers and insulators, derrickmen,

and riggers, as well as the house shorers, were scarcely known 20 years ago, but are fast becoming a necessary adjunct to the building industry.

NUMBER OF UNIONS AND MEMBERS AND RATE OF WAGES IN MISCELLANEOUS TRADES, BY OCCUPATIONS, 1913.

Jurisdiction is claimed over the handling of derricks for stone setting, also for the handling of all cut stone or artificial stonework of solid facings, porticos constructed of stone, also steps with side ashlar or platform shall be classified as solid stonework. Terra-cotta and concrete blocks when handled with derricks shall be considered as derrickmen's work.

AWARDS AND DECISIONS OF THE GENERAL ARBITRATION BOARD OF GREATER NEW

YORK.

Riggers' Protective Union v. Master Steam and Hot Water Fitters' Association-Employing riggers.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AUGUST 10, 1906.-The complaints of the Riggers' Protective Union against members of the Master Steam Fitters' Association are dismissed and the master steam fitters are directed that where they do employ riggers they must employ members of the Riggers' Union, a party to the arbitration plan.

Riggers' Protective Union v. Elevator Constructors' and Millwrights' Union—Handling material.

DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, FEBRUARY 14, 1908.-Wherever the elevator manufacturers handle their own material, it shall be done by elevator constructors, but where that material is delivered and put in the building by the truckmen, this work shall be done by the riggers.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HEAT, FROST, GENERAL INSULATORS, AND ASBESTOS WORKERS OF AMERICA.

ORIGINAL CHARTER CLAIM AND JURISDICTION.

The jurisdiction claimed is the application of all insulations, whether designed for steam or other heated surfaces or conduits, or ice or cold storage plants, in any building in the course of construction, alteration, or repair, the application of all magnesia, asbestos, hair felt, wool felt, cork, mineral wool, infusorial earth, mercerized silk, flax fiber, fire felt, asbestos paper, or millboard, and asbestos lumber in any form and for any purpose whatever.