New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-27
datons for 500 men, The train will leave the Grand
Central Depot at a. m.
TROUBLE IN THE BUILDING TBADES.
CONTRACTORS YIELDING TO LABoRERs' DEMANDS
CARPENTERS ON STRIKE.

CONTRACTORS YIELDING TO LABORERs' DEMANDS
CARPENTERS ON STRIKE.
1t was hoped that when the arrangement in
regard to pay and hours made between the Brick
layers Union and the Master Builders Association all
DANGER OF an extended strike in the building trades this
season was ayerted II appears, however that the
mousse laborers are dissatisfied ana are determined to
STRIKE II Necessary for increase in pay AT recent
meeting OF the Laborers Union Protective Society 1t
resolved that a demand should be made for
an advance from twenty-five to twenty-eght
cents an hour when the hour system was
IN use and from 50 % 10 81 80 day Of nine hours
hye days In week and eight hours Saturday. This
was the rate which prevailed the trade up the time
Of the adoption OF the nnehour rule by the brckayers
and trainers. At that time the ab0rers' wages were
reduced. committee of five appointed to lay the
demand before the Master Builders Association az the
last meeting The Master Builders after long discus
sion declined by close grant the demand of the
laDorers. and their decision made known at the
meeting Of the General Council OF the laborers Mon
day night The union resolved insist It's demand
and on every job where the increase is not paid this
morning the aborers will decline to go work.
This means practical stopping of all building opera
tons II is hardly probable that general strike will be
necessary, however The demand was made "a num-
Der OF contractors yesterday and some of the largest
once made the concession asked for. Among them
contractors Fuan, EghtyfOurth-st and Eleyenhaye.;
Hams. Broadway aud Princest Lynn 4 Fiske, Eighty
sixth-st and ThiTd-ave; Bross. seventy-sxth and
Tenth-ave; Cook & Higgins Sixtyfourh-st and Tenth
ave. Fife q Campbell. Fryninth-st. and Fifth-ave.;
French Burgand, Seventy-secOndst. and Ninth-ave.;
william Murphy, SiXtysecOnd-st. and Nnth-ave.; p.
Kennedy, Seventiethst and Nnh-ave.; Hadon Giles
pie. SiXteenth-st. and Tenth-avc; Andrus d
White, observation-disclosures hirty hTstst. and Seventh
ave; Thomas COrcOran, One-hundred-and-hth st. and
Tenthave. number OF the larger employers have al
ways paid the rate. The Laborers Union is organized
into twelve branches, and about ZOO IL
has large strike fund aud would be able necessary to
make IA long III ht.
Stanley Brothers contractors are building a row of
hye-stOry houses in SXeth-st Among other men they
employed fifteen carpenters. whom they paid 80 20 a
day instead OF 50 3d. the regular union Walking
Delegate snyder OF the Carpenters Union heard of this
aud yesterday morning he to the place and ordered
the men 10 so out strike after his de-
mand for an inc ease had been refused Twelve
OF the fifteen at stopped work. request was
made OF the paserers and plumbers at work on
the job TO aid the carpenters and unless peace made
to-day 1t Is probable that all the union men on the JOB
Will stop work. Fifteen carpenters employed on Breen
MasOns job In East SXtyiirstst. also struck yester-
day against reduction OF % cents nay.