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Show BUILDING TRADES ORGANIZE. Thirty-Thrco Unions, With 75,000 Members, Unite in One Body. NEW YORK, Jan. 31. The largest central body of building trades unions ever organized In this city, the Associated Associ-ated Building Trades, has effected per-' manent organization. It contains thirty-throe unions directly enpaged In the building trades, with an aggregate membership of 75,000, and Is a much stronger body than even the old Board of Building Trades, of which Samuel Parks was president. Five representatives from every affiliated af-filiated union are In the new organization, organiza-tion, which has an Inner body called the board of representatives or walking delegates which will meet every Wednesday. This board will order strikes when authorized by the Associated Asso-ciated Building Trades, but has no voting vot-ing power at regular meotlngs of the body. The unions of Housesmlths and Brldgemen and of Bricklayers two of the strongest locnl labor bodies, arc tho only ones of consequence not Included in the membership. They huvc been asked to Join. Arbitration of all difficulties Is provided pro-vided under tho constitution, which slutes that strikes will be a last resort. Within a weak a committee will be appointed ap-pointed to wait on the Building Trades JBmployers' association and demand a confernce to end the present lockout and order that a Joint conference may be held of representatives of unions and employers to formulate a new arbitration arbitra-tion agreement. |