The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-17
THE LOCKOUT OF BREWERS
New York Manufacturers Close Their
Doors and Pay Off Their Workmen.
Declaring They Will Never Again Employ
Members of the Labor Unlons-Failnre of
the Effort to Compromise with Carnegie.
THE BREWERS, LOCKOUT.

The Employers Close Their Doors and Pay
OF Their Union Workmen.
NEW York, April I6-The brewery lockout
has begun, and more than five thousand brewers.
brewery-wagon drivers, maltsters, helpers,
wsgon-makers. coopers. painters and apprentices
in this city. Brooklyn. Jersey City, Newark.
Paterson and Staten island are out of work
The financial week of the workmen ended at
noon to-day. According to the 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 in
dications that the greatest lockout that has ever
taken place in this section of the country would
occur in few hours. 1t was noticeable fact,
however, that for the most part the men were
better clothed than usual, having gone to work
prepared to be locked out and spsnd the
afternoon half holiday. There was no
kind of demonstration aud the were
as quiet and peaceable as II nothing
was the matter. Just before noon the proprie-
tors of each brewery called their men together.
They were instructed in a short address that,
owing to the resolution that the National Brew
ers' Association had fit to adopt, their
services would no longer be required. They
were informed that the brewery employers have
considered the difficulty from its simplest point
up. and had unanimously decided to be their
own bosses, and would not, and never will here
after, submit to anything of dictatorial nature
from their men. The bosses considered
that the contract which the Journeymen
Brewers Union demanded of the employ
to sign was decidedly of this nature.
and consequently had refused to sign it
The men were further informed that should
they feel disposed to submit their names for re-
employment as individuals, and were willing TO
disconuect themselves from their unions and
recognize their employers their only bosses,
the proprietors would be perfectly willing to re-
employ them, give them the pay, with the
same mum Der of hours work, and employ them
under the same conditions they had worked un-
der formerly. when the time came The men
passed quietly to the cashiers desk, after they
had heard what the proprietors had TO say,
ceived their weekly pay and departed At noon
time, according to agreement. every brewers
door was closed, and business for the time is
suspended. In this city, fast the
men received their pay. they proceeded at
once TO Clarendon Hall. thirteenth street,
their headquarters. where the strike committee
was in waiting to take their names and to what
brewery they belonged Long before o'clock
the hall was jammed 10 suffocatlon and over
flowed on to the sidewalk and into the street.
While most of them were bitter in their de-
nunciation of the action of the bosses, there did
not seem TO be the slightest indication toward
violent measures against the men who are will
ing to take their places. They seem to feel
confident that the new men VIII soon get heart
lily sick of their job. They claim that while the
bosses have secured large number of Theses
men, they are incompetent and unable to manu-
facture good beer.
At meeting of employing brewers it was de-
cided TO organize the new force OF workmen so
as to start up the brewsries Wednesday with
the best of the new hands and such of the old
hands as remain faithful and to gradually To-
crease the number of raw hands safety war
rants. Il was resolved to observe the same
hours ana pay for the past year; also, that
men applying for work will be asked TO renonnce
all allegiance to any authority except them
selves and their employers IN regard to wages
and hours. ~
At the meeting of workmen in Clarendon
Hall, it WAS resolved that they had been locked
out and deprived of support for their families
without cause, and that they appeal to organized
labor throughout the land and to every honest
thinking man to help them in their struggle A
committee appointed to meet and warn
brewers who come here for work in answer 20
advertisements.
Alderman Henry Gunther. superintendent or
of the brewing companies which to day
locked out their employees. received by mesa
enger, tonight. package which. when opened.
was found to contain arraneement for set
ting fire to fuse connected with bottle con.
tanning a LIQUID supposed to be explosive.