1.)The treasurer of the union at the time was indicted and sent to jail for stealing $21675 from the union.
2.)The local was selling "privilege cards" to nonunion men at $2.50 a week for a journeyman and $1 for a helper.
3.)The jobs handed out were based on race and religious affiliation. Catholics, who were mostly irish, controlled most of manhattan. Therefore they recieved a majority of the work in the city. It was very had for a jewish man to gain work in Local 3 because of this.
4.)Helpers undercut journeyman in gaining work by offering to do a journman's job for a helper's job pay. The helpers never wanted to become journeymen because they were steadily employed for their hard work and cheap labor.
5.)Local 3 meetings ran wild. Gambling and drinking went on as the meetings went on. Little business could be transacted. Order was not in place at these meeting,. They actually found 20 electrical contractors at a meeting and only four of them were union members.
6.)Union shops owned and operated nonunion shops and vice versa. Nonunion contractors were allowed to continue working their nonunion employees on strictly union jobs.