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RAZING OF EAGLES’ 'BUILDING PICKETEDtlg■ei-I.ItSalvage Operation* at Burned Structure at First and Main Go On Despite Union Action.Picketing of the Eagles’ lodge i building at First and Main streets, j where salvage operations have j started preparatory to rebuilding j the lodge home following a fire,i was begun yesterday under the i sponsorship of the carpenters and general laborers union locals, A.. F. of L iThe work proceeded, despite the picketing, under direction of F. K. Metcalf, who holds a contract with the lodge for razing what remains of the second story of the building , preparatory to the awarding of an-* other contract later for building a full basement and one-story lodge building on that corner. Metcalf is working a crew of four men, some of whom he said are war vet-eifreifPoa.t*•sr.ur)IVerans.Claims Union Scale Paid.Protesting against the picketing, lodge officials said yesterday they made the salvage contract without regard to union or non-union labor, but did specify that the union scale of wages be paid. They also said that because the lodge is “a benevolent and charitable organization not operated for any profit whatsoever,” It should not be picketed any more than any other charitable organization's headquarters or offices should be picketed.The pickets carried a sign saying the job was “unfair to organized labor. A. G. Lenger, business agent for the carpenters’ local, said the picketing resulted from awarding of the job to “a contractor who is unfriendly to organized labor and does not use union labor.” The j unions felt, he said, that it wasdiscriminatory against them.
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Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Feb 22, 1946
Page 17
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