he goes exhaustively into the restrictions of output on the part of unions in this country, and it is an amazing situation which he discloses, especially in the building trades. He refers in his report to a matter I was just going to bring up-that in the last development of the closed shop comes the conspiracy between the union and the employers' association against the general public. The employer fights without police protection, without aid from any quarter, and with his brother employers competing with him until he gets tired of it. He organizes an association of his own and makes a deal with the union, and that deal amounts to this: You keep other contractors out of this town or out of this territory and we will employ nobody but members of your organization. That deal has become effective in the city of New York, so that in several large building trades the doors of that great market are absolutely closed to outside contractors for the sale of material for erection purposes. In the marble industry, for instance, it has been estimated that it costs from four to five times as much to cut marble in New York City as anywhere else in the United States, because of such a conspiracy between the employers' association and the union. In the last analysis, that is a logical result the conspiracy between the union and the employers' association against the public. That is something our people would not go into, and we have had to fight for six years to maintain our right to do business. An injunction suit is now pending in New York to bring to an end such a conspiracy in the carpenter industry. Mr. MONAGHAN. Is it not a fact that under the present bill such a conspiracy could not be enjoined? Mr. DREW. You could not enjoin it because the boycott and other measures employed by such a conspiracy would be legalized by this bill. Mr. DAVENPORT. Even if offered by the Government for the purpose of enforcing the Sherman antitrust law? The CHAIRMAN. If you wish to discuss the particular provisions of the bill, I would be glad to have you do so. Mr. DREW. I should be glad to do that, but others, I believe, intend to address the committee along those lines. I do wish, however, to indorse what Mr. Monaghan has so ably said as to the practical features of the measure. That is all I have to say, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. We will now adjourn until Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Thereupon, at 4.35 o'clock p. m., the hearing was adjourned until Monday, June 17, 1912, at 2 o'clock p. m. EXHIBIT 1 TO STATEMENT OF WALTER DREW. Comparative statement of rate of wages paid to structural iron workers and to carpenters in the United States, 1910. [The rates given are the number of cents per hour for an 8-hour day. The 8-hour day in the building trades is almost universal.] 50 Pittsburgh, Pa.. 50 621 50 45 50 Portland, Oreg. 561 50 Richmond, Va. 50 Rochester, N. Y. 43 Salt Lake City, Utah. 62 San Francisco, Cal.. 62 62 No. EXHIBIT 2 TO STATEMENT OF WALTER DREW. Assaults upon nonunion foremen and men in the employ of open-shop contractors of iron and steel erection work. J. Kelly and several other men. Grand jury in- Foreman Beekman and Spe- 2 strikers, Spangenberg and Smith, who were ar Timothy Murphy, a member of Local No. 17, Cleveland, who was sentenced to 30 days in workhouse, and Geo. Merriman, a union man. 3 employees.. L. Billman and 6 other employees. Zvornik & Feigenbaum.. Guard named Corcoren. 2 men. 2 men; a striker named Armour was arrested and held under $500 bail for trial in special sessions. Strikers. Man named John Kelley, who made the attack at Jos. Birk and John Higgins.. 6 men; 2 of these men, one named McCormack E. Treubner (representative of concern). Albert F. Dion and 2 other Samuel Anderson. 3 men. EXHIBIT 2 TO STATEMENT OF WALTER DREW-Continued. Assaults upon nonunion foremen and men in the employ of open-shop contractors of iron and steel erection work-Continued. Frank Nagel, formerly secretary of Local No. 2, Thos. Slattery, business agent of Local No. 35, of Man named David Conners, an iron worker, who |