New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-18
THE LOCKOUT BECoMEs A STRIKE.
BREWERY BOSSES STATE THEIR TERMS

MANY OF THE MEN RETURN TO woRK-A FEW
BREwERIEs RESUME WORK.
Tho tactics used by the brewery proprietors yestcr
day in the big lockout Of 5000 transformed the
Joel into strike Of than half that number OF
brewery employees. Tho seventy-e brewcries In
New-York and neighboring cities, the doors Of which
were closed Monday, offered to take back the mon
and resume work the employer terms yesterday
morning or hire now men. Those Of the old men who
did not 60 back to work werc plainly on q STRIKE
Tho same wages and hours constituting days work
were offered them and guaranteed for ono year, but
no recognition Of unions would be made and tho men
were obliged bind themselves to have anything
to do with boycotts
Tho bosses called reorsanlzing their forces, and
reports from the several breweres poured into the
general offices Of the United States Brewers Association
by telephone all day Secretary A. T. Seifert was In
charge, and he seemed highly satisfied at the appar-
emily rapid progress that being made In the labor
Of securing tho full complement Of brewery hands.
There a break in the ranks of the employees all
along the line, and II the confidence Of the brewery
owners can be trusted, a general stampede back to
their places occur in the employees ranks to-day
Upward of coo of the new employees whose names had
been taken at the employment bureau, No. 1OS East
Foutecnhst sent to the brcweries and received
work These brcwerles starting up with small
forces in order to give the preference to the old hand
should they decide to resume work. A dozen New
York brewories partly resumed work in this way yes
terday Nearly all whose propretors are members OF
the association secured hands, and several started
up in full blast In the afternoon. These were Peter
Dodgers brewery, With new mon entirely. T. q NJ
6chaefers brewery was opened with full complement
Of employees, half Old nen and half new, and George
Ehrcts brewery started under similar conditions
Also that Of David Meyer, Joseph Kuntz, J. HOFFMAN
and ]. Echer.
Mr.. sefert said that the would not be dis
charged under any circumstances TO make room Tor
the old ones who wanted to return. Abost 100 men
applied for work yesterday, and 1t claimed that In
two three days the propretors could 10000
workmen II necessary and In week the brewcres
would be running usual The deliveries OF pool
beer yesterday confined to the afternoon, and
they small hut the beer-shop keepers had laid
in large stock tho day before and 1t is promised that
deliveries will be made to-day not much Inconvenience
was felt except in the outlying towns. The thirteen
breweres in NowYork Brooklyn, Staten Island, New
ark and Elizabeth, not in the "pool," wcre running
yesterday and made large deliveries.
Work was resumed with small forces Of men at
nearly all the brcweres CT Brooklyn, and drivers ycre
engaged to deliver beer to-day. All tho employees OF
breidts large brewery in Elizabeth returned TO work
on tho employers terms. In Newark tho " bosses
secured all the they wanted applicants for places
coming from many miles around, and several OF the
strikers came over to this city 10 secure work. In
union has been broken within the traditional forty
eight hours, as Il was In Chicago short time ago
0bermeyer Lehman, p. 4 W. Eblng, +. q NJ. schae,
fer Brewing Company and Beadleston & Woerz went
out strike yesterday, breaking their union con-
tracts with tho proprictOrs.
The second mass-meeting Of the brewery employees
held in Clarendon Hall yesterday, and abont 1,30O
present, Louis Herbrandt presiding. II was
ordered to distribute 100000 circulars that bitterly
denounced the bosses. Speeches made, and tho
tOld that now never they shond act as a
unit and enforce their rights against the grasping
bosses IL was announced that Conrad stein had
signed the contract with the unOn but that proprietor
denied emphatcally later in the day that no had done
Tho drivers and naltstcrs held meetings In tho
lower hall and hstenoi 60 nery wOrd OF eco'rt se-
ment from union leaders. At No. 213 FOrsyth-st.,
tho headquarters of the journeymcn. It was claimed
that three OF the po0l bosses had yielded 10 the men,