Section 1. This Organization Shall Elect, At Its Annual Meeting in

January, a standing committee of arbitration, consisting of five members, to serve one year. The present standing committee shall continue in office until the election of its successor, in January, 1888.

SEC. 2. The president shall be, ex-officio, one of said five members. He shall be chairman of committee, and in his absence the committee may designate one of its members to act in his place.

SEC. 3. Within one week after the election the president of the United Order of American Bricklayers and Stonemasons shall certify to the Chicago Master Masons' and Builders' association, and the president of the Chicago Master Masons' and Builders' association shall certify to the United Order of American Bricklayers and Stonemasons, the fact that said committee has been regularly elected, and give the names of members thereof.

SEC. 4. When notice of the selection of a committee of arbitration by the other association shall be received, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and within the month of January, the two committees shall meet and proceed to organize themselves in a joint committee of arbitration by electing an umpire, who is neither a working mechanic nor an employer of mechanics. The umpire, when present, shall preside at meetings of the joint committee, and have the casting vote on all questions.

SEC. 5. Seven members, exclusive of the umpire, shall constitute a quorum of the joint arbitration committee, and in case of the absence of any member, the chairman of his committee shall cast the vote for such absent members.

A majority vote shall decide all questions.

SEC. 6. The joint committee of arbitration shall have all evidence in complaints and grievances of a member or members of one body against a member or members of the other, or of one organization against the other, referred to it by the president of either association, and shall finally decide all questions submitted, and shall certify by the umpire such decisions to the respective organizations.

Work shall go on continuously, and all parties interested shall be governed by award made, or decisions rendered, provided, however, that work may be stopped by the joint order of the presidents of the respective associations until the decision of the joint committee is had.

SEC. 7. The joint committee shall have exclusive power to determine and fix definitely from year to year all working rules. It shall also have all exclusive authority to discuss and determine all other subjects in which both organizations, or members of both organizations, may be jointly interested and concerned, which may be brought before the committee by either organization or the president thereof.

SEC. 8. Working rules are rules governing employers and workmen at work, such as the establishment of a minimum rate of wages to be paid practical bricklayers and stonemasons per hour, and of a uniform pay-day, to determine the number of hours to be worked per day, the time of starting and quitting work, the remuneration to be paid for work done overtime and Sundays, and other questions of like nature.

SEC. 9. The subject of apprentices being a matter of joint interest, and concern to both the union and the Master Masons' and Builders' association, the joint committee shall have power to decide from time to time the number of apprentices which master masons may take in service. Until further action by said committee all master masons shall be allowed a new apprentice each year, and the term of apprenticeship shall be three years, but any minor taken as apprentice shall be under 19 years of age. All apprentices shall be allowed to join any organization of their craft, but to be subject to the laws of this state and the contract of apprenticeship made in pursuance of such laws.

SEC 10. This article having been agreed upon by the union of the United Order of American Bricklayers and Stonemasons, and the Master Masons' and Builders' association shall not be repealed or amended by either organization except upon six months' previous notice given to the other organization, and such notice shall not be given until after all honest efforts to settle the grievance or difficulty shall have been made.

In addition to the provisions for changing the constitutions of the two organizations it was necessary for the Bricklayers' union to make a number of changes in its constitution in relation to the walking delegate, stewards, foremen, etc., but these could not be made at once, as there was a provision in the constitution of the union by which it could not be amended, except after two weeks' notice. This notice was given, and the amendments were made at the proper time. In the meantime the proposed changes were recognized and put into practice.

The Bricklayers' union and the Master Masons' association met and ratified the action of the joint arbitration committee by unanimously indorsing the award and all accompanying recommendations. This ended the great strike and lockout.

In the settlement which was made the greatest accomplishment was the securing of a standing committee on arbitration to adjust all grievances before the employes are permitted to strike, or be locked out by the employers. This is a hard blow to the agitators, whose thrift largely depended upon their ability to create strife and contention between capital and labor. The establishment of a joint council of employers and workmen secures and protects free labor. Instead of the pernicious strike, it was agreed that arbitration should be recognized as the first move in the settlement of differences, and that it was the only true solution of all misunderstandings. As nations never take up arms against each other until they have exhausted the experiments of diplomacy, so the workmen, or their leaders, were made to understand that arbitration was the true course in the adjustment of differences between employer and employe. Associations of employers, as well as associations of employes, may well profit by the experience of the building trades in Chicago. It was a hot struggle, which, after all, was brought to an end by arbitration--an experiment which, however unsatisfactory to the hot-heads, might as easily have been resorted to at the beginning.

The employer, and not the Walking Delegate of the union, was given control over the employment of his own workmen. The declaration made at the first meeting of the Master Masons' association, that "the Walking Delegate must go," was put into force and effect by the award made. He has walked his last walk, and his finger has snapped its last snap in calling men off a job in Chicago. The tyrant's power was taken away. The foreman was made the servant of the contractor, who pays his wages, and is no longer the servant of the union, to which he pays taxes. The rights of the employer were recognized and harmony was secured.

OUT OF POCKET.

The losses to thirty thousand employes and seven hundred contractors during the lockout aggregated more than $4,000,000. They are fairly shown by the following statement:

4,000 Carpenters, 16 days, @ $2.50 $160,000 2,000 Carpenters, 30 days, @ $2.50 150,000 4,000 Hodcarriers and Laborers, 60 days, @ $2.00 480,000 3,000 Bricklayers, 54 days, @ $3.60 583,200 1,000 Brick Makers, 54 days, @ $5.00 270,000 8,000 Brick Laborers, 54 days, @ $1.75 756,000 1,000 Brick Teamsters, 54 days, @ $4.00 216,000 1,000 Stonecutters, 30 days, @ $4.00 120,000 500 Cornice men, 30 days, @ $3.00 45,000 500 Gravel Roofers, 30 days, @ $2.50 37,500 700 Plasterers, 30 days, @ $4.00 84,000 250 Lathers, 30 days, @ $2.50 18,750 600 Painters, 30 days, @ $2.50 45,000 1,000 Mill men, 30 days, @ $2.50 75,000 Iron men 10,000 Slate Roofers 5,000 Stair Builders 5,000 Lumber Yard Employes 5,000 Teamsters 5,000 Boatmen 5,000 _________ Total $3,075,450

The actual loss of the seven hundred contractors would average not less than $25 per day for sixty days, which would make their loss--exclusive of percentage on work delayed--$1,050,000. This sum, added to the loss of the idle man, makes a total loss in the building trades alone of $4,125,450. And this resulted from a demand for Saturday pay-day.

This calculation does not include the percentage of losses to the builders upon work which was in hand, and which could have been pushed to completion during the pendency of the strike. They would have amounted at least to $1,000,000. These figures should be a warning to projectors of strikes in the future, but when a strike is determined upon, the results, in a financial way, are never considered. Nothing is looked to but the present imaginary wrong, which reckless leaders insist must be righted without reference to the effect upon their own pockets or those of the employer upon whom their demands are made. It is about time for the strike and boycott days to end, in order that prosperity may be assured to both the employer and the employe--at least in the building trades of this country.

CONCLUSION.

From the beginning to the close of the strike there were many difficulties to contend with, one of the most prominent of which was the timidity of some contractors, who were constantly exhibiting their weakness, and on the slightest pretext would have given up the battle and sacrificed principle for the sake of making a few dollars. These men were a constant care to the more earnest workers, who were compelled to put forth efforts at all times to strengthen the weak brethren and keep them in line. They believed in the correctness of the principles involved, but were ever ready to say they could not be enforced against the striking element, the strength of which at all times was made to appear in the unanimity with which the workmen seemed to stand together. If the strikers were weak they were so well drilled that they would not admit it, or show it to the contractors, while the few weak members of the Master Masons' association and material dealers who were disposed to give up, were constantly parading their cowardice to not only their associates, but to the strikers and to the public. But they were few in number.

Another source of annoyance was the exhibition of selfishness by a few owners of buildings which had been projected. They would not consider the principle involved; but, looking at the dollar in sight, took their contracts from members of the Association and gave them into the hands of the strikers, thus furnishing aid and comfort to the enemy of liberty, and creating a feeling of discouragement in the ranks of the builders.

All honor to the brave men who stood firm in the fight from the beginning to the end; who sacrificed everything but principle to sustain the proposition of individual liberty; who were early and late in the front to do battle alike for the strong and weak; who shirked no duty, no responsibility, but floated the banner of freedom on all occasions. Their names are enrolled on the books of the haters of free labor for a boycott in the future, but they are also enrolled in the deepest recesses of the memory of every good and true citizen, and their manly efforts for the establishment of the principle of individual liberty will never be forgotten.

THE CARPENTERS AGAIN.

When the Master Masons adopted the nine-hour day the Carpenters' and Builders' Association promptly backed them up by receding from the eight-hour rule and making their hours of work correspond with those of the Master Masons. The award of the arbitrators having restored to the masons the eight-hour day, the carpenters considered themselves absolved from any obligations to back up the masons, and said they would fix the hours to suit themselves.

The satisfactory settlement of the strike of the bricklayers caused the working carpenters to move in the direction of arbitration. An uneasy feeling prevailed for some time among the employers and the workmen. On several occasions agitators tried to induce the men to order a strike for eight hours and 35 cents an hour as the minimum rate of wages, and the conservative element had great difficulty in preventing it. They succeeded in securing the appointment of an arbitration committee by the workmen, which was composed of Messrs. W. White, H. T. Castle, R. L. Hassell, Roscoe Palmer and A. S. F. Ballantine. This committee made several attempts to secure recognition at the hands of the Carpenters' and Builders' Association, but without success. The association met Saturday evening, July 23rd, and laid on the table three communications from the carpenters, all of which were in the direction of arbitration. The association then passed a resolution authorizing its members to work as they pleased during the remainder of the year, without reference to any rule in regard to the number of hours which should constitute a day's work, and almost universally work proceeded on the eight-hour basis.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUILDERS.

J. Milton Blair, President, Cincinnati, O. John S. Stevens, First Vice President, Philadelphia, Pa. E. E. Scribner, Second Vice President, St. Paul, Minn. Wm. H. Sayward, Secretary, Boston, Mass. John J. Tucker, Treasurer, New York, N. Y.

DIRECTORS.

David M. Alexander, Albany, N. Y. Wm. Ferguson, Baltimore, Md. Leander Greely, Boston, Mass. Charles Berrick, Buffalo, N. Y. Henry Oliver, Charleston, S. C. George C. Prussing, Chicago, Ills. James Allison, Cincinnati, O. Thomas Simmons, Cleveland, O. Thomas Kanauss, Columbus, O. W. G. Vinton, Detroit, Mich. W. C. Weatherly, Grand Rapids, Mich. W. P. Jungclaus, Indianapolis, Ind. Thomas Mason, Milwaukee, Wis. H. N. Leighton, Minneapolis, Minn. J. N. Phillips, Nashville, Tenn. F. H. West, New Orleans, La. Mark Eidlitz, New York, N. Y. Wm. Harkness, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. Samuel Francis, Pittsburgh, Pa. George R. Phillips, Providence, R. I. Charles W. Voshall, Rochester, N. Y. E. F. Osborne, St. Paul, Minn. F. F. Beck, Sioux City, Iowa. C. A. Meeker, Troy, N. Y. E. B. Crane, Worcester, Mass.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MASTER PLUMBERS.

John Byrns, President, New York, N. Y. John Trainor, First Vice President, Baltimore, Md. H. G. Gabay, Recording Secretary, New York, N. Y. Walter T. Hudson, Corresponding Secretary, Brooklyn, N. Y. Enoch Remick, Financial Secretary, Philadelphia, Pa. M. J. Lyons, Treasurer, Brooklyn, N. Y. D. J. Collins, Sergeant at Arms, St. Louis, Mo.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

George D. Scott, New York, N. Y. E. J. Hannon, Washington, D. C. J. J. Sheehan, St. Louis, Mo. Wm. Harkness, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. Rupert Coleman, Chicago, Ills.

STATE VICE PRESIDENTS.

Alex. W. Murray, Chicago, Ills. D. G. Finerty, Boston, Mass. D. O. McEwan, Omaha, Neb. Joseph C. Mitchell, Baltimore, Md. Richard Murphy, Cincinnati, O. T. J. White, Denver, Col. John Cameron, Detroit, Mich. John Madden, Fort Wayne, Ind. Michael J. Moran, Jersey City, N. J. Henry Goss, Kansas City, Mo. John E. Ford, Newton, Kas. Simon Shulbafer, Louisville, Ky. Wm. E. Goodwin, Milwaukee, Wis. John Shea, St. Paul, Minn. Robert Morgan, New Haven, Conn. W. E. Foster, Norfolk, Va. James E. Weldon, Pittsburgh, Pa. J. L. Park, Nashville, Tenn. Wm. Whipple, Providence, R. I. R. G. Campbell, Washington, D. C. J. L. Furman, San Francisco, Cal. Wm. Young, New York, N. Y.

MASTER PAINTERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES.

Titus Berger, President, Pittsburgh, Pa. Jesse Cornelius, Vice-President, St. Louis, Mo. J. G. McCarthy, Secretary, Chicago, Ills. Maurice Joy, Treasurer, Philadelphia, Pa.

EXECUTIVE BOARD.

Titus Berger, Chairman, Pittsburgh, Pa. J. B. Sullivan, Chicago, Ills. George B. Elmore, Brooklyn, N. Y. John Patterson, Philadelphia, Pa. J. B. Atkinson, Louisville, Ky. M. H. Godfrey, Detroit, Mich. George Howlett, Cleveland, Ohio. Charles H. Sefton, Boston, Mass. E. M. Gallagher, San Francisco, Cal. B. T. Collingbourne, Milwaukee, Wis. J. F. Van Brandt, Dubuque, Iowa. R. L. Hutchins, Wilmington, N. C. James S. Dowling, St. Louis, Mo. B. C. Bushell, Martinsburg, W. Va. James Marks, Bayonne, N. J. F. P. Martin, Atchinson, Kas. P. Coughlin, Bridgeport, Conn. Thomas A. Brown, Washington, D. C. A. T. Davis, Memphis, Tenn. E. W. Pyle, Wilmington, Del.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MASTER COMPOSITION ROOFERS.

J. Wilkes Ford, President, Chicago, Ill. Samuel D. Warren, First Vice President, St. Louis, Mo. H. M. Reynolds, Second Vice President, Grand Rapids, Mich. William K. Thomas, Secretary, Chicago, Ills. H. R. Shaffer, Treasurer, Chicago, Ills.

DIRECTORS.

M. W. Powell, Chicago, Ills. John M. Sellers, St. Louis, Mo. E. S. Bortel, Philadelphia, Pa. J. L. Jones, Chicago, Ills. G. W. Getchell, Chicago, Ills.

WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS.

John W. Root, President, Chicago, Ills. J. F. Alexander, Secretary, LaFayette, Ind. Samuel A. Treat, Treasurer, Chicago, Ills. W. L. B. Jenney, Secretary Foreign Correspondence, Chicago, Ills.

VICE PRESIDENTS.

D. W. Millard, St. Paul, Minn. H. S. Josseyline, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. D. Adler, Chicago, Ills. J. J. McGrath, St. Louis, Mo. J. G. Haskel, Topeka, Kan. J. F. Alexander, LaFayette, Ind. George W. Rapp, Cincinnati, O. J. J. Kane, Fort Worth, Texas.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

Dankmar Adler, Chairman, Chicago, Ills. G. W. Rapp, Cincinnati, O. Charles Crapsey, Cincinnati, O. C. A. Curtin, Louisville, Ky. G. M. Goodwin, St. Paul, Minn.

ILLINOIS STATE ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS.

D. Adler, President. S. A. Treat, } Vice-Presidents. M. S. Patton, } S. M. Randolph, Treasurer. C. L. Stiles, Secretary.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

L. D. Cleveland, C. M. Palmer, John W. Root, Wm. Halabird.

CHICAGO ORGANIZATIONS.

BUILDERS' AND TRADERS' EXCHANGE.

George Tapper, President. Mat. Benner, First Vice-President. Alex. W. Murray, Second Vice-President. F. C. Schoenthaler, Secretary. Joseph Downey, Treasurer.

DIRECTORS.

Oliver Sollitt, D. V. Purington, Murdock Campbell, E. A. Thomas, F. W. H. Sundmacher, Ph. Henne, James John, S. S. Kimbell, Wm. Kinsella, George H. Fox.

CENTRAL COUNCIL OF BUILDERS.

George Tapper, President H. G. Savage, Vice-President. F. C. Schoenthaler, Secretary.

STANDING COMMITTEES.

Credentials--J. B. Sullivan, T. C. Diener, A. J. Weckler. Safety--H. L. Turner, C. B. Kimbell, Robert Vierling. Strikes and Grievances--P. B. Wight, H. G. Savage, M. W. Powell. Arbitration--Edward Kirk, Jr., William Hearson, John Sutton.

CHICAGO MASTER MASONS' AND BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION.

Joseph Downey, President. Thomas E. Courtney, Treasurer. Hermann Mueller, Secretary.

THE CARPENTERS' AND BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO.

William Grace, President. William Hearson, Vice-President. F. C. Schoenthaler, Secretary. Peter Kauff, Treasurer.

DIRECTORS.

C. G. Dixon, William Mavor, J. W. Woodard, W. E. Frost, John Ramcke, J. W. Cassell.

THE CHICAGO BUILDING STONE COMPANY.

B. J. Moore, President. H. A. Sanger, Vice-President. D. E. Corneau, Secretary. E. F. Singer, Treasurer. J. A. Pettigrew, Manager.

DIRECTORS.

D. E. Corneau, J. G. Bodenschatz, B. J. Moore, H. A. Sanger, E. T. Singer, H. L. Holland, G. H. Monroe.

QUARRY OWNERS' ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO.

Gen. John McArthur, President. John Rawle, Vice-President. E. E. Worthington, Secretary. C. B. McGenness, Treasurer.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

E. T. Singer, John Worthy, M. B. Madden, P. G. Hale, W. Johnson.

CUT-STONE CONTRACTORS' ASSOCIATION.

F. V. Gindele, President. T. C. Diener, Secretary and Treasurer.

TRUSTEES.

John Tomlinson, John Tait, Henry Fürst.

THE ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS IN METALS.

R. T. Crane, President. J. McGregor Adams, First Vice-President. John T. Raffen, Second Vice President. W. J. Chalmers, Third Vice President. Robert Vierling, Secretary and Treasurer.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

R. T. Crane, W. J. Chalmers, M. C. Bullock, George Mason, J. McGregor Adams, Frank I. Pearce, Louis Wolff, John T. Raffen, A. Plamondon.

CHICAGO MASTER PLUMBERS' ASSOCIATION.

H. Griffith, President. J. J. Wade, First Vice President. Wm. Sims, Second Vice President. M. H. Reilly, Third Vice President. Frank E. Rush, Fourth Vice President. Wm. Wilson, Fifth Vice President. J. R. Alcock, Recording Secretary. Charles S. Wallace, Corresponding Secretary. William Sims, Finance Secretary. J. J. Hamblin, Treasurer. P. L. O'Hara, Sergeant-at-Arms.

MASTER PAINTERS' ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO.

President, J. G. McCarthy. Vice-President, H. J. Milligan. Secretary, B. S. Mills. Treasurer, N. S. Lepperr.

TRUSTEES.

Henry G. Emmel, Wm. H. Emerson, James C. Burns.

THE GRAVEL ROOFERS' EXCHANGE.

H. R. Shaffer, President. D. W. C. Gooding, Vice-President. John L. Jones, Secretary. S. E. Barrett, Treasurer.

DIRECTORS.

M. W. Powell, G. W. Getchell, W. K. Thomas.

THE GRAVEL ROOFERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.

M. W. Powell, President. A. L. Barsley, Vice-President. J. J. Wheeler, Secretary. S. E. Barrett, Treasurer.

DIRECTORS.

C. W. Randolph, J. W. Ford, D. W. C. Gooding, A. Burke, L. Daley.

NORTH AND NORTHWEST BRICK MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION.

A. J. Weckler, President. August Wehrheim, Vice-President. F. W. Sundmacher, Secretary. George Lill, Treasurer.

TRUSTEES.

Thomas Moulding, Fred. Zapell, A. J. Weckler, August Wehrheim, John Labahn.

CHICAGO BRICK MAKERS' ASSOCIATION.

P. Lichtenstadt, President. John McKenna, Secretary. L. H. Harland, Treasurer.

CONTRACTING PLASTERERS' ASSOCIATION.

William Piggott, President. A. Zander, Vice President. James John, Treasurer. Andrew Corcoran, Secretary.

GALVANIZED IRON CORNICE MANUFACTURERS.

Edward Kirk, Jr., President. James A. Miller, Secretary and Treasurer.

CHICAGO REAL ESTATE BOARD.

William D. Kerfoot, President. M. R. Barnard, Vice President. George P. Bay, Treasurer. Edward F. Getchell, Secretary. W. J. Gallup, Assistant Secretary.