The new North-west., 1888-04-20
THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS.
To Beer or not to Beer; That IS the Question.

NEW York, April 12.-From present 'no'-
cations there will be beer famine IN th's
city after Monday next. Not only IN this
city will the dreaded famine spread, but IN
Brooklyn, Newark, Elizabeth, Jersey C''y
and Hoboken. The master brewers say that
the days of labor unions picking out an indi,
vidual brewer to boycott and ruin have
passed away, and they have adopted the
motto of the Knights Of Labor: ''An injury
to one is the concern Of ALL" Secretary
Seifert, of the United Brewers Association,
when asked to-day it the contemplated lock-
out as as rumored in some quarters, only
bluff, replied, "No, sir; we mean just what
We say. Next Monday, if all the boycotts
are not removed, all the breweries will
close.''
"Will all the breweries outside OF New
York shut lown?'
mo, only in New York and vicinity; but
no beer will come to New York"
The master brewers publish an advertise
mept to day, quoting the resolutions adopt
ed Tuesday to the effect that if the boycott
placed on them by the workmen of this city
is not removed by the 10th inst., they will
proceed to reorganize their working force.
aud inviting men who desire steady work
in breweries to register their names ct head
quarters. At 10 o'clock to day 800 applicants
for work had registered their names and
addresses. The Secretary Of the master
brewers said if the boycott was not removed
by Monday they would proceed to weed out
the malcontents aud fill their places. Men
who work in breweries show symptoms OF
alarm at the action Of the employers, and
many manifest disposition to rebel against
the Central Labor Union, and take the dis
position of the trouble into their own hands.
The master brewers yesterday received a
dispatch saying the resolutions adopted by
the United States Brewers Association will
be upheld aud carried out to the letter. 1t
was signed by the Chicago and Milwaukee
Brewers associations.
CHICAGO, April 12.-All union malsters
and brewers in Chicago went or strike at
o'clock this morning. Such move has
been imminent for some time and had its
origin in a circular issued by the National
Organization Of Brewery Proprietors, which
in substance announced its determination to
refuse the recognition Of any brewers or
masters unions. This morning three hun,
dred masters snd brewers qni: work, stop
ping every brewery in the city except the
Ernst Bros, and throwing out of employ
ment probably 1900 OF 1000 men. The Ernst
Bros establishment is at work, the proprie-
tors having secured force of non union
men some days ago.
NEW YORK, April 16.-The brewery lock
out has begun and more than $4,000 brew
ers, brewery wagon drivers, malsters, help
ers, wagon makers, coopers, painters and
apprentices in this city, Brooklyn, Jersey city,
Newark, Patterson and Staten Island are out
of work. The financial week of the work.
men ended at noon to day. According to the
instructions of the union every brewer in ev-
cry one of the allowed named cities returned
to work as usual this morning, and there
were few outward indications that the great
est lockout that has ever occurred in this sec
tion of country would occur in few hours.
Just before noon the proprietor of each brew
cry met the men and Informed them that
their services were no longer wanted; that
they had unanimously decided to be their
own bosses aud would not submit to anything
t;ofo ~ lo IL
men sought unemployment as individuals
and disconnect themselves from unions they
would get work. The men passed quietly to
the cashiers desk after they heard what the
proprietors had to say, received their weekly
pay end departed. Al noon time, according
to agreement, every brewers door was closed,
and business for the time is suspended.