New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-23
THE STRIKE ENDED.

ENOUGH UNsKILLED LABORERS SECURED FOR THE
TRIBUNE BUILDING-THE STRIKERS ASK TO BE
TAKEN BACK AND WANT TILE NEW MEN Dis
CHARGED-THEY ARE REFUSED
As was announced in yesterdays TRIBUNE,
the backbone Of the strike OF the unsklci aOorers on
the new TRIBUNE building for an advance OF wages
from g. TO s. 30 per day had been practically broken the
previous evening Yesterday all the aborers that were
wanted were readily employed. and the builder now
anticipates further trouble.
The former laborers struck without giving any pre-
yious warning demanding immediate advance
from s. dhe rate which they had been
PAID for months) to 81 so per day. They we're told
that on several tho largest buildings nn progress
in the city all the unsGed labor needed employed
at ST. and that the extreme price which they asked
was only paid on two small
uptown jobs. They good men, however.
and as a means Of avoiding difficulty they offered
COMPROMISE of s. per day and further told That
If this was not satisfactory they might depend being
paid whatever should be found to be the cur
rent WAGES They refused the cOmpro-
mise ana insisted on immediate advance
without reference what was paid elsewhere. They
were then off the premises and have since con-
tented themselves with trying TO ntmidate the scores
OF bcrers who ready take their place at the
s. % offered or even at the 81 per day.
Yesterday afternoon. when the old employees dis
covered that they beaten and that the work on
the building gong on as satisfactorily as before
their strike they applied for their old places agreeing
10 take s. % per day, and requesting that
they might be restored. and the
hands discharged This perenptorilY 'refused.
Tley were told that the had encountered some
risks and had given their work a time vhen it.
very much needed and that they would be pro-
tccted and employed AZ long possible, while no
man who had struck in the manner described and re-
fused the compromise would be again employed so long
IA others were ready TO do tine work The result is
that between so aud 90 OF those who had hereto
fore had permanent employment and regular pay,
are now ont Of work The strike also dscOses the fact
that FOR every uusklled laJorcr downtown build
ngs there three out Of employment and eager for
situations.
When work was resumed on THE TRIBUNE building yes
terday morning brckayers at hrst objected 70 the
new aborers because they not connected with the
Hodcarriers' Society," and declared that they would Oe
unable TO work while tended" by non-society
men. They were told that the nou-society
men had been employed and would be
kept on the work. ana while there was every desire
10 retain the brcayers aIso they could not be per-
mitted to drive off the Others. They stopped work
tor an hour rcured to the cry nan Park
for consultation. and then, with great good sense
concluded 20 to work again. Two or three OF the
stone mssons employed IN the Spruce-st. vault also
ciety men 10 tend them. Like the others, tleY were
given time for consultation, but not returning
the afternoon they sought work again. but were told
there was now work for them. . 49,
The strike has really DELAYED WORK on the ouliulng
very little. partly because OF the rains through
out the week. and partly because the front
walls had reached point where sew
araI granite blocks had 20 be lifted into place
A day yesterday and the day before the granite men
had been engaged in hosting two enormous blocks each
Weighing eleven tons the base or the NTH story.
CANDID OPINION.
I1 star
The Star has received score or so Of alb
surd letters IN reference the twenty yecent 1RIB-
UNE strike. We have room for such stuff. II hard
nm men are Wiling stand idle-and smOke-rather
than 81 diem, they do but not with
the support The Sur We believe IN laCOrers advanc-
ing To manhood, their degeneraTing INTO