[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Sunday Star
Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 47, no. 113, p. 1,2 Sect. 3, col. 2,3
BRICKLAYERS TO MEET
IN STATE CONVENTION
HERE SEPTEMBER 10
Expected That Forty-Eight
Unions in Indiana Will
Be Represented.
The Bricklayers' International Union will meet in state convention in Muncie on Monday, September 10, and local committees are now turning attention to preliminary details in preparation for the event. The fact that officials of the national organization are to attend the session here gives added interest to the meeting.
Headquarters are to be maintained at the Hotel Roberts, but the meeting proper will be conducted in the Elks' Home. The state officers are expected to arrive in the city on the Saturday preceding the convention date and reservations have been made for them at the hotel headquarters where they will remain until Monday morning when the scene of convention activities shifts to the Elks’ Home.
150 Delegates Are Expected.
Plans of an elaborate character are being perfected for entertainment of the delegates, who will number 150. There are forty-eight subordinate unions in Indiana and each of them are expected to be represented by delegates. Election of officers is held every two years and as this is the year for an election, this too is expected to bring increased numbers.
Mayor Quick will extend the city’s welcome to the visitors at the opening of the convention and Judge Clarence W. Dearth, of the Delaware Circuit Court, will speak on the labor situation in the evening. At 6:30 o’clock banquet will be served. Riley's Orchestra will furnish music during the banquet hour.
National Officers Coming.
National officers who have signified their intention to attend the Indiana convention include William J. Bowen, president; Thomas Preece, vice-president; William Dobson, secretary, and John J. Gleeson, treasurer. The state officers are Charles Cozatt, Indianapolis, president; Charles Eggers, Whiting, vice-president; John Kendrick, Fort Wayne, secretary, and Charles Blood, Terre Haute. treasurer.
The Muncie union will be represented by George Shook and M. J. Snider, as delegates. The local committee in charge of social affairs of the convention is comprised of F. B. Jones, Dick Clouse, Oscar Patterson and Harry Owens.
Scarcity of Workmen.
Discussing the labor situation, officials of the Muncie Bricklayers' Union declare that all unions in Indiana report work in abundance and a marked scarcity of brick masons. Muncie, they declare, has much building work in process of construction at this time, in which brick is used, including the new structures at the State Normal, the Masonic Temple, Kitselman wire mill, new buildings at the Ball Brothers' glass manufacturing plant, the building at the Hemingray Company plant and approximately fifteen new homes. There is a new school building in course of erection at Gaston also.
There are more brick residences being built in Muncie this year than during the past five years, they say, people learning that brick homes are less expensive of upkeep, are easier heated in the winter months and are found cooler in the summer months, and obtain lower insurance rates, and are built of the "everlasting building material."