Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-11-30
DOORS ARE LOCKED.
Fifteen Hundred Ale and Porter
Brewerymen Shut Ont.
1T WILL BE A LONG FIGHT.
Breweries in New York, Brooklyn, Jersey
City, Newark, Paterson and Yonkers
Closed Against Union Men Who
Refuse to Sustain a Boycott.

NEW YoRK, Nov. 29-The 1900 ale and
porter brewerymen in the fifty breweries in
this city, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark,
Paterson and Yonkers were locked out at
noon Wednesday, or rather those of them
were who refused 10 accept the terms OF
their employers and persisted in sustaining
the boycott on David Stevenson a. Co, and
contributing to the fund of the Ale and Porter
Brewers Protective association.
The employers association passed the fol-
lowing resolution:
That at I2 0 clock on Wednesday, Nov. 2s, every
man in our employ who viii not pledge himself
to stop contributing To the funds of the Brewery
WorkingmenS Protective association, or to any
others. 50 long as it or they may be engaged in
promoting the boycott, shall be Immediately dis
charged
The annexed advertisement appeared in the
morning newspapers:
Men in want of permanent employment as
drivers or laborers ia the ale breweries of this
city and vicinity at the regular wages are re-
quesied TO register their names today, between
the hours OF 10 and i2. with the secretary of the
Ale Brewers association, at 2 Irving place.
Before o'clock crowd of several hundred
men, including half dozen nationalities,
swarmed around the Brewers Exchange
building at 2 Irving place ready to have their
names registered.
Four or five policemen were summoned and
the applicants Were formed in line, and three
clerks were kept busy in taking their names
and addresses as they filed into the room on
the second floor
The line stretched from 2 Irving place
around into Fourteenth street as far as Tony
Pastors theatre and attracted a crowd of
curious people, who were at a loss to divine
the cause of the gathering.
Some of the applicants were old brewery
men who were locked out last spring from
the lager beer breweries and have since been
unable to find employment, while the large
majority were young men who have been
engaged in all sorts of work. Some were
well dressed, others were in their working
clothes and not few were thinly and poorly
clad, and appeared eager to get chance to
go to work at anything.
Comparatively few had ever been employed
in ale breweries, but no questions were asked
of the applicants. Their names and addresses
only We're taken, and they were told that in
case they were wanted they would be noti-
fed
Editor Tovey, of The Brewers Journal,
the organ of the ale and porter boss brewers,
who is also secretary of the Ale and Porte.
Brewery Employers association of New
York and New Jersey, was on hand with
Charles Schultz, of the Brewers Exchange,
to manage affairs connected with the lockout
Mr.. Tovey said that each employer would
call his hands before him and give them to
understand that if they desired to continue
at work they must take no part in the boy
cott and stop contributing to the Ale and
Porter Brewery Employees Protective asso-
citation; or in other words, they must aban-
don the local assembly of the X. of L. and
the independent union to which they are at
tached Those who refused to do so were to
be ordered to leave the breweries, and men
who applied at the exchange were to be sent
to take their places.
Each employer will report at the exchange
the number of men who have left him, and
Mr.. Schultz win send the new applicants to
take their places
A few union men gathered at the corner of
Irving place and Fifteenth street to watch
the swarms of applicants at the exchange,
and laughed at the idea of inexperienced
hands taking the places Of men who are al
most indispensable to their employers and to
whose labor their success is mainly due.
The headquarters of the union men is at
Ledwith's hall at Third avenue and Forty
fifth street. Ex-President O'Connen and
President Riordan and Delegate Fitzgerald
were there early and said that the unions
were prepared to resist the demands of the
bosses and the ], 500 hands in tie breweries
would all go out and remain out, with per-
haps very few exceptions
Mr.. O'Conneu said the union men proposed
to act in a quiet and law abiding manner.
He declared that his association would not
raise the Stevenson boycott for the reason
that that gentleman did not pay union wages
and employ union men; and that Mr. Steven
son had failed to produce his books to sub
Stantiate his statement before the executive
board of the bosses association.
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