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Show i' AMERICAN PLAN' PROBE INVITED I San Francisco Dealers Won't Sell Material to Union Builders i SAM FRAXCISCO, June 7 Full in- -vestlgutlon of all Its activities would jbe welcomed hy the Industrial asso-I asso-I elation of San Francisco, according to la statement by William .1 Kuhl gen-,eral gen-,eral counsel of the association, In an- i to the complaint made by Frank ! Morrison, secretary of the American (Federation of labor Morrison om- plained, to Attorney General I a :ghert thai Certain building material dealers! ; in San Franc-jsco refused to sell to firms employing union labor The OOmPlalnt made to Daughert by Morrison was tho outgrowth of disputes dis-putes which arose after the establish -Iment of the so-called American or open shop plan In San Francisco The Industrial association, at the plan's I Inception, stated that its purpose was to permit the employment of non- I union workers with union men. i S1KIKK FOK.MS UlilMV Iater the buildings trades' official" m&hltsjned that building material 'ilealers refused to sell contractor" 1 goods unless they employed non-union workers With union workers. TheV charged that the dealers even Insisted that only non-union men be employed. as a prior stipulation to 'the sale of I materials. The situation reached a climax when a dozen union plumbers on a school I building contract went on strike in protest against th- American plan. The (contractor declared that unless he (adoptc-d the plan he could not get ma Ittrinls to finish tho building. .lohnT. Williams, 1 nited States at-torneyAml at-torneyAml rred nith Mathew Bradj jdistrlctLttorney. and the latter was lunderst&id ! have laid before Williams Wil-liams the results of an Investigation I of complaints made several monUr, .before- Williams' Investigation was said to have been prompted by a request re-quest from Daugherty and his finding; 1 Iwere forwarded to Washington. Eleven I iSan Francisco business firms Including Includ-ing some named by Morrison in his complaint, were barred from participating partici-pating In cit building contracts b the ;San Francisco board or public works 'for alleged discriminatory tactica, on Mav 16. Ho THEY'LL SELL TO W. H. George, chairman of Industrial Indus-trial relations committee of theBan Francisco Builders' .exchange, said: I "The San Francisco Builders exchange ex-change Will not BUPPly materials LOI contractors who insist on the emp.oy-'ment emp.oy-'ment of nothing but union labor. The San Francisco Builders' exchange does not discriminate directly against union , labor bv refusing to sell materials to contractors employing union labor, but In fighting for recognition of the American Am-erican Plan, the exchange believes It within its rights to discipline those contractors who do not favor the open Bhop" " 1 |