Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-17
LOCKED OUT.
The Brewers OF Nsw York In Difficulty.
Usrnsgte' Employee.

The Brewers of Nsw York in Difficulty.
Usrnsgte' Employees.
NKw YORK, April l6.-The brewery
lockout has begun and more than 5000
brewers, brewery wagon drivers, NAL
s.ers, helpers, wagon-makers, coopers,
painters and apprentices in tas city and
Brooklyn, Jersey City, Paterson and
Staten Island are out Of work. The fnsn-
cial week of Workmen ended at noon to-
day. According TO instructions Of their
unions every brewer in every one of the
above named cities returned to Work as
usual this morning and there were few
outward indications that the greatest
lockout that has ever taken place in this
section OF country would occur in
q few hours. It was noticeable fact,
however, that for the most part the men
wore better clothes than ususl, having
gone to work prepared to be locked out
and TO spend tue afternoon as half holt
day. There was no kind OF demonstra-
ton and the men were a5 quiet and
pesceable as if nothing WAS the matter.
Just bafore noon the proprietors OF each
brewery called their men together. They
were instructed in 8 short ad-
thst the National Brewing Association
had seen Il! to adopt their services would
no longer ba.requiTed. They were IT.
formed that the brewery employers had
considered the difficulty from is simplest
point up, and had unanimously decided
to be their own bosses ,snd would not ana
never will hereafter submit to anything
OF q dictatOrisl nature from tee men,
The bosses considered thst the CONTRACT
which the joucneymen brewers demande d
Of the employers to sign WAS decidedly Of
this nature, and consequently had re-
fused TO sign. The men were luther
instructed tnat should they
feel disposed to submit their
names for Unemployment as In,
dividusls, and were willing to dis
counecG themselves from unions and rec
ogniZs the employers Es their only bosses
the proprietors would be perfectly wlllice
to re-employ them, give them the sam.
pay with the ssme NUMBER OF hours
work, and employ them under the same
conditions as they hsA worked under for
merry. When the time came the me1
passed quietly 10 the cashiers desk after
they hsu heard what the proprletors had
to say, received their weekly pay, and de
pared.
TBE DOORS CLOSED.
At noon time, according TO agreement
every brewers door WAS closed, and bust
ness for the time is suspended. In thi!
city as fast as tue men received their psJ
Inev proceeded st once tD Clarendon hall
on Thirteenth street, their headquarters
where the strike COMMITTEES vas IN waiting
to take their names and TO Whist brewery
they belonged. Loag before l O'Clock TIKI
nall YVES jam ed to sutfocatiDr and ever
flowed on to the sidewalk and into th'
street. While most of them we're bite
In their deuuEciaiion VI the action CT TIT
| bosses, there did not seem to be tht
slightest indication toward violent meas
ures against the men who sre willing II
t8ke their pieces. They seem to fee
| conf dent that the new mer will soon ge
| beastIy sick cf lheiT jon. Tney claim tina
While the bosses have secured larg'
number of these mep, they are inGompe
tent aud thoroughly uEaole to manufsc
ture good beer.
TOOK NO vaTH.
PITTsBURG, Pa April l6 The meet
ing of striking employes Of the gal
Thomson Steel Works ct Braddock, Pa
to ballot on the question Of returning t
work a. Andrew Csruegle's terms I'D
journed this afternoon sf:er a lengthy
session without taking vote. The non
union men who largely out nnm
bere the Knights Of Labor favored
the acceptance of the company
prop osltiop, but the latter got control g
the meeting and no vote WAS taken. 1t il
conceded that the works will now remain
closed for sn indefinite period and al
j conference andpeGotistions with the mel
kwill be declared of. The factioual feel
4 ing at Braddocks Is intense and duriDl
the day there were numerous stree
fights.