New-York tribune., 1890-08-05
no SETTLEMENT YET.
TROUBLE IN THE BRICK TRADE CONTINUES.
TIE BUILDING MATERIAL DEALERS vAINLY
ATTEMPT TO ACT AS MEDIAToEs.

| ATTEMPT TO ACT AS MEDIATORs.
eve are the men who will suffer the most by this
boycott on bricI7 said James Rogers cXprcSidcnt of
the Building Material Dealers Exchange. yesterday.
Between the boycott 10y the Board Of Walking Dele
gates and the resolution Of the Ncw-YorI ard New
Jersey Brick Manufacturers, Association not 10 ship
their brick to this city while thi, boycott lasts, we
dealers are being ground to pieces
At the last regular meeting Of the Building Material
Dealers Exchange, at No. So Liberty st., committee
was appointed To act Intermediary between inc
walking delegates and the brick manufacturer, to try
and effect peaccabic settlement of the trouble ana
the raising of the boycott four members Of the
Manufacturers Association who refuse to employ Only
union men in their brick yards at Ncrplanch9 Point
h Yesterday morning this committee met the walking
delegates in the AStor House and ii agreed tha'
the building material dealers committee should make
the attempt TO bring about conference between inc
brick manufacturers and the walking delegates with
a view to a settlement Of the threatened nsnt.
At IL III. the Brick Manufac;ufcrs' Association
began long session in Parlor l., A>or House wlh
George II. smith in the chair and lIoralo '. Wood
acting secretary. The entire session taken mp
with discussion of the brick boycott The committee
from the building Material Dealers Exchange was
present. and asked The manufacturers present VINO
represented 90 per Of the brick manuia' turr' o
New York and New Jersey, 10 hold meeting with TIE
walking delegates discussion followed. alter wh ch
a resolution wa, adopted that neither the Beard ot
Walking Delegates any labor dinOn should bc
recognized by the manufacturers aud that they would
hold no meeting or conference with the walking dele
gates.
other resolutions were pissed 10 fight the boycott
the walking DELEGATES and the Knight, of Labor to the
bitter end to ship no more bricks 70 the NcwNo
market after the next meeting un!c-, the hoyc'tt
was raised 80 find market for their bricks IN other
cities and 70 vote. if necessary, 100000 to those
mcuIcr> of the association who cannot find a ready
market for their bricks and need help.
II wa, reported that committee had secured
the SIGNATURES OF % per cent Of the DECK
mHnu'actnrcr, Of thi, stale and Ncu Jersey 70 an
agreement to fight th' boycott. II was also r.
ported that there va, big stock Of brick hand. and
that there were only about 700 union mon among ihi
5000 employed by the Hudson River brick manu-
flcturcr>. The delegates present SAID their men di
not want to Join union. and that thcN would not lortc
them at the dctation of thc Board Of waiting D"e-
gat"~ \ secret meeting of th" ENccuilv" t'mmttc"
of the Manufacturers AS-ocia 1n Wa hcld late ~ inc
afternoon at which tho committee from Tho Binding
Material Dealers Exchange made ono more dttrnpt ,
bring about settlement Of IN" trouble but failed II
Va, reported that f. l.. Mc'iuIrc. lecturer dad or
sauizcr If the Knights II Labor. had made c"~
pcr-,tc attempt to organize the hTchmah"r, at Yer
n1uck', Pont. G~.,u uylilc. iavrr~tiaW aud ohor
towns but failed because more than 0u" Aar o thc'
men we're French Canadians who return 10 Canada at
the end II tl" season.
Another meeting viii Doe held m th" Ast"r House on
Monday by the NaIufI'tH:cr-' Association.