New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-16
FORCING THE LOOKOUT.
BREWERS EMPLOYEES WILL NOT GIVE IN.

BREWERS EMPLOYEES WILL NOT GIVE IN.
SEVENTY THREE BREwERIES WILL CLOSE AZ
NOON TODAY II THREATS ARE FULF1LLED'
The beer brewers war Is beginning In earnest
Careful thinking both sides say that there can
be only one end 10 the present fight They declare
that the disastrous mistake the part OF inc
workmcn, and into which the proprietors have
been forced. Active hosttes viii begin at IL
O'Clock to-day when seventy three breweres In New
York, BTookyn, Jersey City, Hoboken and Newark
will be closed after all employees are paid In full up
to date The men will be told that their services Will
no longer be required for the present About 5000
men work I'm these establishments and from the most
trustworthy estimates at the present time, nearly halt
OF them Will ask questions, but quit work and sub
NIT TO the lockout In accordance with the resOlu-
tons passed yesterday by the Central Labor Unions
and trade organizations in the several clues wherc tno
men arc employed.
The first decisive action made by the mass meet
ing of journeymen brcwers coopers maltsters, eng-
ueers iremen and wagon divers held In the morning at
Clarendon Hail. and IN the afternoon by tho meeting
OF the New York Central Labor Union. Both passed
uufnchins resolutions authorizing all brewery en-
ployes 10 resume work Monday morning. but upon the
appearance OF any nonuniOn man In the shops 10 quit
work in body Secretary Hecrbrandt Of the Journey
mems union spoke first; President Gompers of the
National Federation OF Trades, following; and John
HUT also called upon the members OF all trades
organizations to stand firm The spirited talk had It's
effect, both inside the room and outside on the street
after tho meeting inside by influencing the majority
to force tho general lockout that is promised this
afternoon, and outside by causing many hot protests
from far seeing delegates that compromise with tho
bosses7 under tho circumstances would havo been
far better
THE WHOLE DISPUTE IN A NUTSHELL.
The dispute In nutshell Is simple. The pro-
pretors refuse any longer bind themselves by con-
tracts to hire only union mon, and the workmen' VINO
in the main are said to be satisfied with both wages
and hours OF work. have been led II place themselves
on record as announcing that they will work no longer
without contracts with their unions and furthermore
as insisting that the dictates OF the unions in the way
OF boycotts, etc, must be obeyed. The propretors
demand Internationally that their employees recognize
allegiance only TO their mployersno TO unions IL so
far as their labor IS concerned; and the prOpret0rs
have pledged themselves not TO alter existing rates OF
nav or time required for days work. The Central
Labor Unions did not remove the boycott placed laSt
week on nine brewers, but boycotted fifteen more
They were Peter Doelger Henry Elias, Peter Buchcl
The John Kress Brewing Company, H. b. Scharmann,
Z. Bachman, David Meyer, william Peters. NJ Grohs's
Sons p v Valentine & Sons, S. Lehman & Sons,
Gottfried Kruger from New-YOrk: Rubsam q Horr-
man. Staten Island, and Frederick Munich and william
Ulmer, Brooklyn.
Clarendon Hall was secured for the headquarters of
the WOrkmcn In New YORK, ana Lyceuln Han, oli
Mvrtleave., was engaged the Brooklyn seat-0t
war Tho minor offices of the ourneymen in Forsyth
ST. and in Princest, Newark will be IN full blast to-
day and every effort made TO make the boycott sue
cess. The bOsses7 did not hold a meeting yester'
day. as their plan Of operations carefully outlined
and understood last week, but many went 10 the
Office No . Irving Place and consulted together In
formally. II is not probable that any change will be
made by any Of the members in their determination,
once and for all, to defeat bOycotts and what they
consider undue dlctation concerning their own busl-
/ ness. - -. ..
The air Is full of rumors with regard TO corrupt
professional labor agators being the cause of The
BIG lockout 1t is said that Socialists and Anarchists
have from time to time prevailed upon some Of the
more ignorant worsmen act In manner not to the
liking Of the bosses and that the unions have gone
so far as TO mako the resistance of the prOpretors
/ necessity. The proprietUrs have between two and
/ three thousand men whom they can call upon to 90
to work at MOMENTS notice and the brewers who
are not boycotted viii supply the customers Of those
who are. Liquor dealers generally have laid In large
stocks of ao and bock' beer and there is little dan
ger OF beer famine
At the meeting held In Morrisania yesterday,
the Socialists appeared in force Addresses were made
to the workmen by Colonel r. II. Hinton, Ernest
Mueller and Editor Jonas, Of " The Volks Zeitung.
Mass meetings were also held in Brooklyn, Newark and
Jersey City. All labor organizations agreed TO sup
port the journeymen and appeals made in their
favor.