Show n WASHINGTON LETTEY LErET or UNION U MEN EX AROUSED BY G pr By ULES I P STEW UT NE NE Ser Sers Senico SerIce Ice Writer WASHINGTON Sept Let 16 16 Harry Bury Wardman Yardman build tho the new em- em embassy embassy em embassy bassy the British government Is planning to erect In Washington and Ambassador Sir Esmo Esme Howard will find a diplomatic Job on his hands compared with which holl holi think war debt settlement didn't amount 0 Not that Wardman ardman Isn't a capa capa- capable capa- capa capable ble bie contractor Probably no other man in In the country has done moro more building lies lie's an Englishman too Original Original- Originally ly Iy ho le was a bricklayer Now hes he's a multi-millionaire multi ln ha having acquIred his hi roll In Washington real reat estate and construction operations But hes he's union non-union There are aro a number of reasons why the Washington Central Labor union has been keep keeping In a sharp sharpeye sharpeye eye cyc on him In connection with this job of embassy building For one thing he sold the tho land landon landon landon on which the embassy Is to stand to 1 tho he British government Then theres there's his his- He lIe also made a trip to London recently and Its It's understood he took with him a 0 quantity of ot plans blue blue- blueprints prints and specifications For the new embassy The Central Labor union wouldn't wonder The other day a huge steam shovel with Ward Wardman's mans man's label on It it lumbered Into Inlo the tho embassy sites site's neighborhood It subsequently developed that the shovels shovel's mission was to open a anew anew anew new str street et but Washington Washington's union labors labor's first thought was that It was all about to begin excavating tor for the new nev embassy building There was a row In a minute The Central union began prep prep- preparations preparations for tor an appeal to union III Ia- Ia la bor In England and to labor throughout this country with witha a view yiew to an British anti-British boycott It if the the llio London government go puts up upa upa upa a non built non un Ion built embassy here In the meantime e a n committee from the Washington Building Trades council counell called at the tho pres pros present present ent embassy to Investigate In Sir Esmo Esme Howard and all the higher embassy officials were on their vacations but an as- as the tho delegation that no con con- contract con contract tr tract t for tor the building has ha been let yet iet and that It may be bo a Il couple of years cars b before tore work starts That settled matters tor for the time 1111 being ng However the tho Impression lingers In the lie minds of ot Washington union union- unionIsts unionists that the tho British government prefers Wardman and that hell he'll get gt the contract ultimately unless Its It's I made abundantly clear to London that It wont won't be bo health healthy from the standpoint of or British Interests In the United States Several other governments have built Washington embassies In re re- re recent recent cent years and all alt of ot them have bave been particular to see sec that nothing hut but union labor and an and material wen went Into them Perhaps it simp simply didn't occur to the British foreign office that as asa asa asa a contractor Yardman Wardman belongs In Inthe Inthe Inthe the union non-union classification If It so In the opinion of ot the Central Labor union It was quite an oversight This new British embassy i Is to tob tobe b be a classy affair costing 1000 1000 |