The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-17
THE WAR DECLARED
Between the Brewers and their
Locked-out Employees.
BOTH SIDES ARE DETERMINED
A Shut Down orall the Brcwcries in
Several Cities Ycstcrday--A Beer
Famine in New York--vari-
Gus Phases of the Strike.

NEW YoRK, April 16.-The brewery
lockout has begun and more than 5000
brewers, wagon drivers, malsters, help
ers, wagon makers, coopers, painters and
apprentices in this city and Brooklyn,
Jersey City, Newark, Patterson and
Staten Island, are out OF work. The
financial week of the worl;men ended Mt
noon to-day. According to the in
stractions 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 indications
that the greatest lockout that has ever
taken place in this section OF the coun-
try would occur in few hours. 1t was
a noticeable fact, however, that for the
most part the men wore better clothes
than usual, having gone to work pre-
pared to be locked out and spend the
afternoon as n half holiday. There was
no kind of demonstration and the men
were as quiet and peaceable as il nothing
was the matter.
pRopRIEroRs' uLTIMATUM.
Just before noon the proprietors OF
each brewery called their men together.
They were instructed in short address
that owing to the resolution that the
National Brewers Association had seen
fit TO adopt, their services would no
longer be required. They were informed
that the brewery employers have con-
sidored the difficulty from its simple
point up and had unanimously decided
to be their own bosses and would not
and never will hereafter submit to any
thing OF a dictatOrial nature from their
men. The bosses considered that the
contract which the Journeymen Brew
ers Union demanded their employ
ers to sign was decidedly OF this natnre,
and consequently had refused to sign it.
The men were further informed that
should they feel disposed to submit
their names for unemployment as indi-
viduals aud were willing to disconnect
themselves from their unions and rccog-
nize their employers as
THEIR ONLY BOSSES,
the proprietors would be perfectly will
ing to re-cmploy them, give them the
same pay with the same number OF
hours work and employ them under
the same conditions us they had worked
under formerly.
When the time came the men passed
quietly to the cashiers desk received their.
weekly pay and departed. At noon
time according to ag.eementt every
brewery door was closcd0nd business for
the time is suspended.
III this city rs fast as the men received
their pay they proceeded at once to
Clarendon Hall on Thirteenth street,
! where the strike committee was i'll wait
| ing to take their names and TO what
brewery they belonged. Long before !
o'clock the hall was jammed to suitoca-
ton and overiiOwed on the sidewalk,
and while lAost OF them were bitter in
their denunciation OF the actions OF the
bosses, there did not seem to be the
slightest indication toward violent meas
ures against the men who are willing to
tuke their places. They seem to feel
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heartily sick of their job. They claim
that while the bosses have secured II
large number OF these men, they are in
competent and thoroughly unable to
manufacture good beer
The Brewers Association met to-day
and agreed to guarantee employees the
same scale OF wages and hours OF labor
for the coming year us during the past
so long us the work is done in q salts
factory manner. All employees were TO
agree to not aid or encourage any unions
in boycotting brewers. The brewers
also promise not to discharge any
cmploye upon the demand or request OF
any labor organization. AT n meeting OF
the locked out employees, it was resolved
to appeal "to organized labor throughout
| the land and TO every honest thinking
man to help us in our fight" Two
hreweries have decided to pay their
hands but for four days time for the past
week. The Fitzgerald Brewing Com
pany is reported to have signed the
Unions contract. i,
At Newark, n. j., at noon to-day, all
the pool brewerics paid Off their en-
ployes, and in q short time over 400
drivers and brewery men were out oil
employment.
| At Elizabeth, the employees of Brad's
Brewing Company unanimously agreed
to continue work on the terms OF the
brewery bosse