Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-13 | Page 2 | To Organize Painters' Union

TO ORGANIZE PAINTERS' UI1I0N D, L. Hunt, fourth vice president of the Brotherhood of Painter3 a d Decoiatois and Paper Hangers of America, Is in Otjuen attempting on behalf of tho local painters and dec-oiators dec-oiators to bring about some permanent perma-nent agreement between the master painters aud their employes, and to establish, if possible, the closed oh .t in this city, instead of the rather tn-clfiereut tn-clfiereut conditions now prevailing; Mr. Hunt will direct his energies toward to-ward securing better working conJi-tluns conJi-tluns for the local painters, ellinl-natlng ellinl-natlng unfair competition, equalizing the cost and profits of contract wor'c and do away with the open ohoj methods employed by some of the decorators In this city. It is claimed that non-union men work at half the union scale or for most anything they can demand from the employer, thus enabling the contractor con-tractor to submit lower figures on contract work. The uniou men allege that such methods are detrimental to the art, and that the work so done is oftentimes inferior. They wish to organize the shops