Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 12 | Union Plumbers Have Chauffeurs Committee Learns

UNION PLUMBERS HAVE CHAUFFEURS COMMITTEE LEARNS BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 13. Master plumbers of Birmingham Birming-ham are required to furnish chauffeurs to 'drive- union plumbers plumb-ers to and from work, and tho chauffeurs are not permitted to do any plumbing work, according to findings of a committee of allied al-lied civic clubs which Investigated the recent demand of the union men for a wage of $12 a day. The committee said today it3 Inquiry also had disclosed that slxty-flpven Journeymen plumbers dominated th plumbing work of the city; that use of apprentices In union shops was forbidden: and that unskilled labor was not permitted to work on plumbing jobs even where no :klll was required