New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-17
THE BIG LOCKOUT BEGUN.
FIVE THOUSAND BREWERY MEN QUIT WORK
Both SIDES CONFIDENT AND THE FIGHT WILL
PROBABLY BE LONG ONE.

peer Dreweries in New-York and It's vicinity
were locked out by the proprietors yesterday,
according to the programme announced last week,
ana the big fight is fairly started There are now
| open only about fifteen beer breweres In New
York and the surrounding cities, the owners Of
which are not members Of the United States
Brewers Association, or who prefer not TO go
into the beer pool" The ale and porter brewers
are not In the fight at present, but they are
members of the association and have not given
their men contracts for the last two years.
AT noon yesterday the brewers offered the men
their pay and with a few exceptions the employees
TOOK 1t and were told that the breweres were
closed The privilege was given them of going
into the various offices and if they signed their
names agreeing not TO request the. proprietors
10 recognize the unions it was said that they
would be taken back About 1000 worlxmcn,
including brewers and apprentices, maltsters, host
lers, drivers, coopers, and laborers refused to
OF the men agreed to come back, but the majority
quit, work and the others were told that they
would be told when to come to work again.
In brooklyn they assembled at the Labor Ly-
ceum In Myrtle-ave. and passed resolutions con-
demning the action of the bosses The same thing
was vas done at the unions headquarters, No 1873
No. 32s Mnrlzet-st., and did the same; but at
Clarendon Hall, in Thirteenth-st. the headquar::
the workmen who have deliberately relinquished
their positions congregated. By 2 o'clock
representatives Of the Brewers Employees
Ale and Porter Brewers Union, the Beer Wagon
Drivers Union, the German Coopers Union, the
Maitsters' Union, the International Millers' and
Unions Nos. and q the United MachinistS'
Union No 2 the Coppersmiths' Union, the Wagon
makers Union No. !, the Hearts of Oak AssOcia7,
32, the Firemen's Union No. 80, the Brewers
Union No. 81, and a heterogeneous multitude Of
nondescrpt outsiders flooded Clarendon Hail. the
aQterOOms. block
In Thirteenth-st, between Third and Fourth aves.
This will be the chief seat Of action of the en-
ployes and the unions of Brooklyn and out |
lying towns are acting in harmony with the move
ments of the central body
THE woRKMEN'S MEETING ORDERLY.
At o'clock the large meeting was called |
to order by Louis Heerbrandt, the secretary Of
the Brewers Employees National Union. Urgent |
appeals TO the men to stick together were made |
by Charles Pommer and Charles Kerzenlnabe |
The action of the bosses was assailed
as - Infamous tyranny and an insult |
10 all working men Of this country Resolutions |
were passed TO the effect that the bosses had |
locked the men out without any ground or reason |
and thus took the bread out of the mouths of the |
employees families. 1t was the unanimous senti- |
ment of those present that they had done their |
lied labor throughout the United States to help |
them In their fight.
~ Reports from the oueeens County Central Labor
and the Central Labor Unions of Brooklyn and |
Newark were received, supporting the locked out
unions were in sympathy with the men and that
their cooperation could be depended upon. There
was great deal of talk and excitement The % pro,
language. The Beer Wagon Drivers held their |
meeting in separate hall Of the building and took
ths the same sT acton aS 'n9 be members wa
iSas Engineers sn'S Union ' NQ s9 had Tefsssd 70
go out with the rest. Men from Claus Lipsus's |
hrayy nd Rud hrevy
the proprietors offered the employees only four
days pay out of the full weeks pay that was due.
Il was also reported that the fremen and engineers
of David Yuengling's brewery had stood by their
employers
Each man was instructed to watch his comrades
tonight and tomorrow and report Immediately at
headquarters II any union man attempted TO enter
into negotiations with his old proprictors TO go
back to work When telegram from Philadel- a,-
phia read stating that brewers were or their
way to New-York to take the place Of the locked
out men, q committee sent to the station to
persuade the men to go back home Word was
re receynd G thnt dae & gnd t b9e~s
ing sixteen firms in all claimed by the journeymen
to have yielded to the demands Of the workmen.
An official document sent out TO organized Ia
Dor asking for financial aid, and saying " Boy
colt the bosses and all pool beer with oil your
strength" Up to late hour there were upward
of three thousand men in the building and to-day
the activity will continue. The police reserves
were on hand in the stations but the brewery
worl1men, although indulging in perhaps more than
their usual allowance of beer were in the main
orderly.
THE BREWERS CONFIDENT OF WINNING.
After the bosses had closed down their estab-
lishments they went to the headquarters of the
United States Brewers Association and held a Sc
cret meeting which lasted until o'clock In the
afternoon. They decided to reorganize their
forces forthwith. beginning this morning They
say they have $500 non-unlon men e, pick from
ard said that they expected that nearly one-halt
~ tba o1l MT IN pnrnp |
the conditions imposed by the brewery owners
President William A. Miles said that full prepara-
ons Were made YESTERDAY to go ahead t ana MANI MANI
the old employees who chose to desert their leaders
and that in day or two the employees would GER
tainly see that they had no chance oil winning
against the proprletors.
Resolutions were made public in which the pro,
prietors define the terms upon which they VIII
employ men. The applicant whether an ola en-
ploye or new one, must agree not TO lct any
union interfere with him and his labor, ana he !
must not assist boycotts in any way, and when
this is consented to the propretors guanStee tno
same wages and hours for the coming ycTr that {
prevailed last year and bind themselves not TO !
discharge a man upon the demand OF any aoor
organization. An enormous quantity OF neer was S
delivered TO the beer shops yesterday morning ana
the collectors from the breweres assured the
liquor dealers generally that deliveries Will be
The two browerieS in Paterson, N j., also shut ,,
down yesterday and the liquor shops were Snort
9f beer. The bosses said they would reopen III a
day or two. In Newark eight orewerlss T,' , mere
closed. locking out about 800 men. me brewery !
propretors own more than two-thrts OF the l., ooO
bcer-shops in the place and do not fear the Doy-
colt that the laborers have declared upon poor 9eer
All the breweries In Jersey City ana HUDSON
County shut down, and 400 men were thrown out
OF employment. . =.
. Twenty out Of the twenty,three DreWSrles cnd IN
Brooklyn were shut down and nearly l,OOO men v
were locked out Peter Breidt's big brewery IN =
Elizabeth n. j.. also closed it's doors ana the en-
poyes were locked out on the same GROUNDS uaHeh
by the New-York proprietors.
1t is the general impression that the settlement
of the whole matter will be left to the State
Board Of Arbitration, which Will Try 10 arpltrase
with the bosses "
THE MARBLE CUTTERS STILL DETAINED. q
Collector Magone was engaged during greater u