New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-28
BUILDING 1RADES' STRIKES.
UNION MEN ORDERED TO QUIT WORK.
AN IMPORTANT STEP TAKEN BY THE AMALGAMATE
TRADEs

UNION MEN ORDERED TO QUIT WORK.
AN IMPORTANT STEP TAKEN BY THE AMALGAMATEI
TRADES.
The most important step which the Amalgamated
Building Trades have taken yet was made yester-
day when the walking delegates OF the duerehi
unions visited the buildings IN which Contractor
John J. Tucker is interested and ordered the union
men TO lay do wn their tools and quit work Early
Yesterday morning the delegates visited the buiid-
ings going up at Seventy-ninth-st. and Fifth-aye.
and ordered the men there out; they came out Al
taking the men of of the buildings at seventy,
ifthst. and Fifth:ave.. sevenry.sesonda, ; and
Fifty'eig6th.st and Madson-ave, Fifty. first-st.
and Madison-ave.. Fifthieth-st. and Madison-aye..
and Seventeenth-st. and Broadway. BY the time
they reached the latter place IL was getting near
@ O'clock and they concluded to wait until this
morning before knocking the men oil at trace
Church and on the Wall-st: job .r
There is every prospect that the strike will be
prolonged and the delegates have Informed the
600 men who are thrown out of employment that
they had better seek work elsewhere; Mr.. tucker
has declared that he will not be dictated to by
trades-unions. 81 employ both union and non
union men," he said" and recognize no distinction
between them When they are DO, doing e my w "m,
side organization shall as far as possible employ
non-union men in the place of those who nave
struck, and If | should not be able to do my work
with such men It will go undoue until the union
men come TO their senses =,
ION this fight hinges thefuture Of the
amalgamatlOn
Delegate John w. Franklin. of Bricklayers
Union No. 4, land L have no doubt
that we shall win it, although Mr. Tucker will
fight as long as be is able. There never has been
such an active time in the building trades as at
present. and we find work readily for all
The men we have out. Such being the case
the only question is how long Mr.. Tucker can afford
to have his work delayed. 1t is impossible for him
TO get non-union men TO fill the places of those who
have gone out as there are not enough n-unon
men in the city. Mr.. Tucker had fight with the
Bricklayers' Union about q year ago, and the hght
then was a draw Now we are not only more
thoroughly organized but we have all the other
trades back Of us and an unusually busy season.
We can't help winning -
On the Job at Twenty second-st. and Broadway
there are not more than half dozen men at work.
Mr. Keenan, the contractor says that be Will not
give in under two years. The other bosses say that
they will lay the matter before the architect, who
Is expected in the city this morning, and endeavor
to have him settle 1t.
At the Dakota fiat house there IS no change, and
the rnmor that n settlement had been reached IL
pronounced false. On the row of buildings IN
Seyenty-third-st., between Ninth and Tenth ayes..
il is stated that a strong effort will be made at the
meetings of the Executive Council TO allow the men
TO return to work inasmuch as none OF the
contractors on these buildings employ non-union
MAJ