 Despite Gubbins' election as president, Bricklayer locals refused to approve the international union's participation in the SBTA.Vice-president Frank Duffy to charge as acting president in Gubbins' place.The Iron Workers along with the Plasterers and Electrical Workers failed to send delegates to SBTA's first convention in the summer of 1904, but Frank Buchanan, president of the Iron Workers, was elected SBTA president all the same.