Intermediate Report of the Joint Legislative Committee on Housing Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...for violating section 10 of the Constitution in that it had put in an estimate at less than the figure agreed upon between the members. Subsequently that fine was remitted. On one or two occasions in which a member reported outside competition on the job, the 2 per cent payment to the Club was remitted so as to enable him to meet that competition. It was the custom to notify the members to communicate with one another before they estimated on a job--" when there was trouble,"--which means that when there was danger of outside competition. The agreement between the Association and the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers Alliance, Local Union N"o. 28, that supplied its labor was made in December, 1917. It gave the members of the Association a so-called " preferential " in the supply of Union labor over those who were not members, which meant that in times of activity non-members could get no labor. Mr. Weinberger testified that "a new argument was made necessary on account of the exposures of the Committee." The Committee of the Association having in charge the question of prices recommended "standard rate of charge of 50 per cent upon each item of cost and 10 per cent upon insurance." Mr. Weinberger further testified that a member who charged less than 50 per cent profit on the job violated the by-laws but that he did not understand that to be price-fixing. There was also a resolution recommending that "45 per cent be added to the cost of each item of metal or labor on work other than that done under contract." In 1919 they lifted that to 50 per cent although the cost of the material and labor they were handling had more than doubled. This Association had regular price-lists distributed among its members and...