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5. In January of each year a joint committee of conference and
arbitration, consisting of five members of each--the Union and the
Chicago Master Masons' and Builders' Association--shall be
appointed and serve for one year. To this joint committee shall be
referred all questions of wages and any other subject in which both
bodies are interested, and all grievances existing between members
of one body and members of the other, or between a member of one
body and a member of the other. This committee, properly
constituted and assembled, shall have full power to decide all
questions referred to them, and such decision shall be final and
binding on all members of either organization. A majority vote
shall decide. In case of a tie vote on any question, which
consequently can not be decided by the committee as constituted, a
judge of a United States court, or any disinterested person on whom
the members thereof may agree, shall be elected umpire, who shall
preside at a subsequent meeting of the committee and have the
casting vote on the question at issue. All members of the union
shall remain at their work continuously while said committee of
arbitration is in session, subject to the decision of said
committee.
6. Journeymen shall be paid by the hour for work actually rendered,
with this exception: From April 1 to Nov. 1 work will be suspended
at 5 o'clock on Saturdays, and all employes who have worked up to
this hour on that day will receive pay for an extra hour. And we
also agree and declare that the article of the constitution and
by-laws of the union which refers to apprentices is wrong, and
shall be referred to the joint committee of arbitration hereby
provided in January next, for amendment, revision, or repeal.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this
29th day of May, 1883.
JOSEPH J. RINCE,
WILLIAM RAY,
PETER NELSON,
Committee of the United Order of American Bricklayers and
Stonemasons of Chicago.
GEORGE TAPPER,
GEORGE C. PRUSSING,
E. F. GOBEL,
Committee of the Chicago Master Masons' and Builders' Association.