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Show THE CONTRACTORS KICKED. They Want to Kuiploy Whom Tbey Please. A meeting of the Contractors' and liuiiders' association was held last night for tho purpose of adopting bylaws, with a preamble which slated that the organization would reserve tho right to employ whom they saw lit, whether union carpenters or otherwise. other-wise. - The association also jumped upon architects iu order to adopt a system of uniform bidding, with a time and place for a public opening op-ening of bids. Vice-President Goby of tho association, associa-tion, said that there had been considerable consider-able trouble with the. architects. They would open bids and carry them away and at their convenience would inform tho contractor. Ho was much approved to being forced to dealwiih the Carpenters' Car-penters' union rather than individvals. Dealing with the union would bo less objectionable were a graded sealo of wages adopted by the union, but as matters uow stand, men who are not worth over $2 per day. by joining tho union could command $ii.fi0, anil have the union back them up. llo had no objeetiou to paying union rates and employing union men if they worked to suit him; but ho did not intend being forced to pay $o.o0 to men worth only $1.75 to $1 Ho claimed that fully one-third of tho members of tho union are worth not over the latter figure. He had for some time past been paying $3.25 for niuo hours' work. There was some difficulty now between the federated trades and the plasterers, who wanted $5 for eight hours' work. This was a little more than the federation could stand. |