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Show SUNION HALTS L.D.S. CHAPEL CONSTRUCTION SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 U.R) The security program of the Mormon church, which has attracted nation-wide attention at-tention because of its effectiveness effec-tiveness in keeping church members off relief, came into diam pnnflirr. toriiiv with the donating their labors." Arose In San Diego A church spokesman said V similar dispute arose in San Jos,? I 1 Calif., over the building 0f a new church, but said it was ironed oui J amicably when church leaders an peared before the Building Trade I Council and explained their p0S tion. ' The present Mormon church in ! ' San Francisco and virtually an , i j!! not all, Mormon churches in ! west have been built by labor do' nated by church members. At the new church site here oak. : ili two carpenters, members of both the church and the union, were at " work today. They said they Wete being paid full union wages. Dave Ryan, secretary of the is. "J trict council of carpenters, said h T could make no comment on the I situation until after the council I meets and makes a final decision tonight. ; i'" : principles of trade unionism. Center of the dispute was the building of a new Mormon church here. Claude W. Nalder, bishop of the San Francisco ward, said work on the new edifice was halted, halt-ed, soon after it started, by opposition oppo-sition from the A. F. of L. Carpenters' Carpen-ters' Union. Donation Hits Snag The union's objection was based on the old practice by which members mem-bers of the church, who are unable un-able to pay their share of the cost of a new church, donate their labor ' to the project. This practice has 1 been carried through into the new security program of the church. Under sponsorship of the church unemployed members either work for the church or aid in canning and other projects which supply food to other members. In San Francisco, however, ' Bishop Nalder said, the union objected ob-jected to labor being donated, "particularly on Saturdays and at 1 night." "They told us that 100 per cent I union conditions should go into effect, but we couldn't possibly I build the church that way," he said. "The only way it could be financed is by those who are unable un-able to pay their full allotments |
