PLAINTIFFS' EXHIBIT A IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY The Roland Electrical Co. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore et al. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY (Docket 92A; folio 503; No. A-32741) Colwill Sonstruction Co., Inc. et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore et al. Schedule showing comparable per diem hourly wage scales as of July 25, 1951, and Feb. 26, 1953, between the wage scale adopted by the Board of Estimates of Baltimore City on July 25, 1951, and Feb. 26, 1953, and open-shop per diem hourly wage rates paid by Henry A. Knott, Inc. The total city comparable hourly rate exceeds the open-shop rate as follows: July 25, 1951. Feb. 26, 1953. Percent 28.31 29.01 PLAINTIFFS' EXHIBIT B IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY (Docket 92A; folio 502; No. A-32740) The Roland Electrical Co. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore et al. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY (Docket 92A; folio 503; No. A-32741) Colwill Construction Co., Inc. et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore et al. Schedule showing comparable per diem hourly wage scale as of February 26, 1953, between the wage scale adopted by the Board of Estimates of Baltimore City of February 26, 1953, and open-shop per diem hourly wage rates paid by J. H. Williams Co. The total city comparable hourly rate exceeds the open-shop rate as follows: Feb. 26, 1953__ Percent __31.78 PLAINTIFFS' EXHIBIT C IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY (Docket 92A; folio 502; No. A-32740) The Roland Electrical Co. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore et al. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY (Docket S2A; folio 503; No. A-32741) Colwil Construction Co., Inc. et al v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore et al. Schedule showing comparable per diem hourly wage scale as of July 25, 1951, and Feb. 26, 1953, between the wage scale adopted by the Board of Estimates of Baltimore City on July 25, 1951, and Feb. 26, 1953, and open-shop per diem hourly wage rates paid by Thomas Hicks & Sons, Inc. The total city comparable hourly rate exceeds the open-shop rate as follows: The Roland Electrical Co. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore et al. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY (Docket 92A; folio 503; No. A-32741) Colwill Construction Co., Inc. et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore et al. Schedule showing comparable per diem hourly wage scales as of July 25, 1951, and Feb. 26, 1953, between the wage scale adopted by the Board of Estimates of Baltimore City on July 25, 1951, and Feb. 26, 1953, for electricians and open-shop per diem hourly wage rates paid by the Roland Electrical Co. The total city comparable hourly rate exceeds the open-shop rate as follows: July 25, 1951. Feb. 26, 1953-.. Percent 71.87 69. 11 Mr. BRACKEN. The first exhibit would be involving a general contractor named Henry A. Knott. Make that our exhibit A, if that is all right. Now, in this exhibit that the companies put in to show the city prevailing wage rates are all wrong, they list for 1951 and 1953 the cityestablished rate for certain crafts and then the open-shop rates. For example, in 1951, city-set rate, carpenters, $2.42 an hour; openshop rate, $1.90 an hour, 52 cents under; in 1953, the city-established rate, $2.58; open-shop rate, $2.00. They go down through the different crafts. Painters, in 1951, cityset rate, $2.07; open-shop rate, $1.55. 60 cents differential; 1953, painters city-set rate, $2.25; open-shop rate, $1.75. Truckdrivers, 1951, city-set rate, $1.40; open-shop rate, $1.20; 1953, for the same truckdrivers, city-set prevailing rate, 1.55; open-shop $1.35. Unskilled laborers, 1951, city prevailing rate, $1.38; open-shop rate, $1; a difference of 38 cents; 1953, $1.49, city rate; $1.10, open-shop rate. They add a footnote at the end of their own exhibit summarizing this, and they seem to smack their lips when they say this: The total city comparable hourly rate exceeds the open-shop rate as follows: July 25, 1951, 28.31 percent; February 26, 1953, 29.01 percent. They submitted a second exhibit for the J. H. Williams Co. on the same case. It only listed rates for 1953: Carpenters, city-set rate, $2.58; open-shop rate, $2.35. Cement finishers, city rate $2.06; open-shop rate $2. A 60-cent differential. Double drum hoists, which is operating engineers, city prevailing rate $2.85; open-shop rate, $1.35. Truckdrivers, city-set rate, $1.55; open-shop, $1.35. Unskilled laborers, $1.49 city rate; open-shop rate $1.35. The total city comparable hourly rate exceeds the open-shop rate as follows: February 26, 1953, 31.78 percent. Now, I want the committee to bear in mind that the city prevailing rate was not the union rate. It usually lagged a year or two behind the current union scale. So that the union scale, in these figures I give you for 1951-53, would actually be higher than the city prevailing rate. So where the difference is 40, 50, or 60 cents an hour, it would be greater, in the rate that the union carpenter was getting at that time and the nonunion carpenter. Another exhibit they submitted-this would be my exhibit Cwould be on Thomas Hicks & Sons, Inc. 1951: City-set rate, carpenters, $2.42; open-shop rate, $2; 1953: city-set rate for carpenters, $2.58; open-shop, $2.05. Truckdrivers, 1951, $1.40 for the city rate; $1.05 open-shop rate; 1953, the same truckdrivers, $1.55, the city established rate; $1.20 for the open-shop rate. Unskilled laborers, in 1951, $1.38, for the city rate, and $1.10 for the open-shop rate; 1953, $1.49 for the city-set rate; $1.20 for the openshop rate. There is a footnote that the cost there in 1951 of the city-set rates over the open-shop rates is 25.22 percent and in 1953 was 26.29 percent. Then a fourth exhibit, and the last one I have here, I was able to gather on Thursday, between the time on Wednesday when Mr. Campbell spoke for the ABC, and today, was an exhibit, which will be my D, in the same case, involving an electrical subcontractor who was a party to the litigation to have set aside the Baltimore City prevailing rate ordinance as unconstitutional. And he proudly submitted this exhibit. For the year 1951, electricians he is an electrical subcontractorcity rate, $2.75; open-shop rate, $1.60; $1.15 difference. In 1953 he was proud to post the city rate was $2.872, and the open-shop rate, his rate, was $1.70. And his footnote to this exhibit is that the total city comparable hourly rate exceeds the open-shop rate as follows: July, 1951, 71.87 percent; February 26, 1953, 69.11 percent. Now, we have heard a lot about economic coercion Wednesday from these speakers. How about that economic coercion? How about that union contractor who is paying his electricians $2.872 an hour plus fringe benefits? And this guy down the street is bidding on jobs for the same work at $1.70. So what has been happening in Baltimore since the open-shoppers formed their union, or formed their association-and it is a very good one, very efficient; it publishes a monthly magazine; it is very well organized. What has been happening? In 1951, the Building Trades Council issued a directory, and in that directory they list 58 general contractors who used union subcontractors exclusively. In 1959, the same Building Trades Council publishes a union directory, and they list five general contractors who use exclusively union subcontractors, and then as an aside they list 22 subcontractors who use union sometimes and nonunion, but who do not, as they do in 1951, use the union subcontractors who paid the union hourly rate. This is the organization who is complaining this ABC organization-about giving the union another weapon to club the employers over the head. We should all grow so strong and wealthy by being beat over the head as that organization has, with the rates of pay and conditions of labor that its members give their employees. Of course, I have only given 1951-53 wage differentials. But how about 1959-60? What about that? As the open-shoppers have gotten bigger, has this differential between the union scale and the nonunion scale decreased? Have they met? Have they blended? Well, yesterday I was able to pick up a few pay stubs of nonunion employees for the year 1959. And I have here in my hand a pay slip from the Pioneer Refrigeration Co., Baltimore, Md., for the period ending July 2, 1959. Hours worked, 60%; rate, $2 an hour. No overtime. That is 6011⁄2 hours of straight time. The union scale, now, in the city of Baltimore is $3.75 an hour. The prevailing rate in Baltimore today is $3.57% an hour. I would like to put that Pioneer Refrigeration in as exhibit E. I have here two pay slips of the Windsor Electric Co.-June 20 and August 1, 1959. This same employee worked 5011⁄2 hours. They do not set the hourly rate, but by computing it into the amount |