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Show Clip! I invi to ft Is an Arch a Building or a Pisce of Furniture Chicago, July 30. is the KnighU Templar arch in La Salle street a piece of furniture or lg it a building? This was the question that aroso yesterday yes-terday in the minds of momber9 of various crafts employed in tho construction con-struction of the arch. As a result, u embers of the Upholsterors union clashed with officers of the Painters' union. Trouble was averted only after officials of-ficials of tbe construction and dec-roating dec-roating company discharged the Upholsterers' Up-holsterers' employed to tack checmo c!oth on the surface of the framework &nd substituted painters on the job. Forgetting to take into account tho niceties of jurisdictional jlines between be-tween the various crafts of organized labor, the employers hired upholsterers uphol-sterers to do the work, especially a3 these workers get a scale of only $18 a week, while painters and decorators receive sixty cents an hour. Because of thc "unusual" nature of the work and the "hazard" of workinjc near the trolley wires the painters who took the upholsterers' jobs demanded de-manded sixty-lice rents nn hour. "What do you fellows think thU 1?. a piece of furniture?" ylld Business Agent William Nestor of the ralnt-er-s' union, when he spied the upholsterers uphol-sterers busily engaged in covering , the nakedness of the arch with strip of cheese cloth. "Don't you know this arch Is a building, rind that this work belong to the painters and decorators? If you fellows don't hike off to a furniture furni-ture factory In a hurry and give our men a chance on this, I'll strike the job." A hurried consultation of employ- 1 rs followed and the painters were put to work. It was planned by the construction construc-tion company to whitewash the arch after the cheese cloth had been tack- f ed on. When Business Agent Nes-I Nes-I tor learned of this he again threat- , ened a strike. Ho told the officials th" painters' unlou would not permit them to whitewash the structure be- cause there is no whltewashers union in Chicago. "Sorry," said Business Agent Nestor. Nes-tor. '"There are no union white-washers white-washers to get here, so you'll have to paint it. And our men will paint v.Ith bushes by bautL No machine . work for us." I |