The evening world., 1888-11-28
LOCKOUT AVOIDED.
An Understanding Among Brewery
Bosses and Employees
Great Preparations Had Been
Made for the Strike.
Throngs OF New Men to Replace
the Old.

The 1, 800 ale and porter brewerymen in the
fifty breweries in this city, Brooklyn, Jersey
CITY, Newark. Paterson and Yonkers, who re-
fused to accept the terms of their employers
and persisted in sustaining the boycott on
David Stevenson & Co., and contributing
to the fund of the Ale and Porter Brewers
Protective Association, were to have been
locked out at noon to-day.
The employers association passed the fol-
lowing resolution
That at IL O'Clock on wednesday, Nov. Is, every
man In our employ who will not pledge himself to
stop contributing TO the funds Of the Brewery
others, no long as It or they may be engaged in pro-
noting 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 In the ale breweries OF this city
and vicinity at the regular wages are requested to
register their names to-day. between the hours Of
10 and IL. with the Secretary Of the Ale Brewers
Association, at Q Irving place..
d. Before 8 o'clock O crowd of several hun
dred of men, including half q dozen nation
alities. swarmed around the Brewers Ex-
change Building at 2 Irving place ready 20
have their names registered.
Four or FIVE policemen were summoned
and the applicants were formed in line, and
three clerks we're 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 q crowd Of
curious people. h we're at O 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
ing clothes. and not a few were thinly and
poorly clad, and appeared. eager to get q
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 were taken, and they were told that in
case they were wanted they would be mott
fed.
organ of the ale and porter boss brewers. who
In also Secretary of the Ale and Porter Brew
ery Employers Association of New York and
New Jersey, was on hand with Charles
Schultz, of the Brewers Exchange, to man
age 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
part in the boycott and stop contributing to
the Ale and Porter Brewery Employees Pro-
tective Association or, in other words, they
must sta sba Sa the local assembly s;aa Of t the K; Of
are attached. Those who refused to do 30
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 the men who have left him,
and Mr.. Schultz will send the new appli-
cants to take their places.
A few union men gathered at the corner OF
IRVING plana and Fifteenth atreat IN watch
the swarm of applicants this morning at the
Exchange, and laughed at the idea of mex
perienced hands taking the places of men
who are almost indispensable to their en-
ployers and to whose labor their success Ii
mainly due.
The headquarters of the union men is at
Ledwith's Hall at Third avenue and Forty
fifth street. Ex-President O'Connell 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 1900 hands in the breweries
would all 60 out and remain out, with per-
Mr.. O'Connell said the union men pro-
posed to act in O quiet and law-abiding man
ner. He declared that his Association
would not raise the Stevenson boycott
pay union wages and employ union men !;
and that Mr.. Stevenson had failed to pro-
duce his book to substantlate his statement
before the Executive Board of the bosses
association.
NO LOCKOUT.
All the afternoon the applications at the
Exchange continued, but an agreement of
some sort was fixed up 30 that very few of
the employees came out.
The bosses said the men had com to their
terms.
The men insisted that the bosses had agreed
to recognize the unions.
WOULD NOT HEED THE WARNING.