Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-18
THE BREWERS STRUGGLE.
An OF r to Supply the Demand for Bs I
Deh citing Bosses.
PROGRESS oE THE FIGHT.


NEW YORK, April 1.-THE Brewers
Association met to-day and agreed to
guarantee the employees the same scale
Of wages and hours of labor for The COM
ing year as during the past SO long as the
work 10 done in satisfactory manner.
All employees were to agree to not aid or
encourage any unions in boyc citing
brewer The brewers also promise to
not discharge any employe upon the de-
msnd or request Of any lsbor organizI-
ton.
a. q meeting otthe locked out employees
it Wss resolved to "appesl to organized
honest thinking man to help US In Oac
fight"
Two breweries have decided TO pay the
hands but for four days time for the;past
week. The Fitzgerald Brewing Company
is reported to have signed the Unions
contract.
THE BATTLE IN Jersey CITY.
JERSEY CITY, N. j. April l6.-The large
breweries in Hudson county closed down
at noon to-day, and abou! SEQ men are
out Of employment. The men went to
work as usual this morning, but promptly
at noon the bosses closed the doors.
Most of the retail dealers laid in large
supply of beer, and they declare they are
fully prepared for an emergency. Both
bosses and men held q meeting to-day.
The men say the wlole strength OF labor
union is back of them. They are conf
dent of inducing non-union men to refuse
to take their places, while the b s5es are
easy in the length Of their purses and
the thirst of tine people.
THE STRUGGLE WILL RE SHORT.
NEWARK, N. J April 17.-At noon to-
day all pool breweries paid eff their EN-
ployes, and in a short time over 400
| drivers and brewery men were out OF EN-
ployment. The Journeymen Brewers
Union has been in session nearly all day
1t is Got probable that the bosses terms
will be accepted at once.
Provisions have been made BY the
breweries, and customers nave been sup
piled with sufficient quSntity OF beer &c
meet the exigency of the occasion. The
men are being backed by all the trades
unions and few saloon keepers who dis
play the sign, "nOne but union beer SOLD
here"
1t is not expected that the struggle wi.
last over two days, as the brewers hsVe
already secured enough men 10 I'LL the
places Of those locked out.
ACCEPT THE BOSSES TERMS.
ELIZABETH, N. J., April 1.-THE EN-
ployes of the Braidtz Brewery Company
to- day unanimously agreed to continue
at work on the terms OF the brewery
bosses.
BEER TO BE SUPPLIED.
NKW YORK, April Ill was resolved
that the executive committee OF the lock
ed out brewers should elect sub-com
mittee whose business it would be L
wait on the lsrge saloon keepers concern
in the sale of beer from outside brew
cries, A delegate from the P1iltdelpbi:
brewers VINO are not in the boycott, Of
fered TO supply the saloon keepers pro
yiding the union would guarantee tn.
their barrels should be preserved. Loui
M. Herbrsnd, national secretary, asked
that the members Of the union help dis
tribute loo, 900 circulars informing tn
general public IS 70 the position OF tn
, 1nion, and the reasons for the boycott
and to enlist the sympathies of the peopl
nm their side, Several hundred member!
!, Immediately volunteered their services
prstuitously. Delegates from the specis
! executive meeting announced the
had ordered all carpenters and wheel
wrights at present employed in the boy
cotted breweries to quit work to-day
Z The delegates from the Engineers
Union said they had ordered their men
come out .nd join the engineers OF tn
I Central Labor Union in the strike. IN
. meeting then adjourned until 9 8. m. to
q morrow, The jourreymen contract hs
= been signed by Schmidt & Schwannennei
gel, New York brewers and members
" the association. This is the first break
: the employers ranks. The strikers CON
9 mittee state they have received request
for a conference from three companie
n associated with the boss brewers. The
! will be waited upon to-dsy. The EN-
d pIoyers are not making any great EFFORT
n reorganize their forces to-day, wishing
they say, to give their old employees
chance to return to work.