The evening world., 1890-04-12
1000 RESUME WORK.
Striking Building Trades WO'km,n
Win Important Victories.
Paulsen n Eger's Workmcn Kept
Out of Many Large Buildings.

Tho great building trades strike ended
this morning as suddenly AZ IL began, Tho
housesmiths have won their fight against
Paulsen Il Eyer, and this NOR ing nearly
one thousand men resumed work OH the
Union Trust. the Lancashire Insurance,
Brown Bros. and the Orient Insurance Com
pany's buildings.
In nearly every instance the strikers
have succeeded in gaining tho points
claimed. TIT employees of the Hecla Iron
Company. OF which raulsen 4 Eyer are
proprietors, are standing around in idle
ness.
Under this agreement the strikers were
ordered back to work this morning and will
continue working 40 long AZ Paulsrn *
Egers men and iron-work are kept out Of
the buildings.
At u conference between Delegates Of the
Housesmith Union and Architect George II.
Post OF the Pulitzer building. to-day;
f. per w. tS,, s fs5Se s,olS e r.G SG I'll No {nrtSsI o. y
for work done oil that building until the
hherences between them and organized
labor, had been satisfactorily adjusted.
and, furthermore that II these differences
were not settled by Tuesday morning Paul
sen, X Eyer must emoVet their tools from the
Just how the great strike took place WAS
related to an EVENING WORLD reporter by
Shop Delegate Charles Hardy. who was the
man objected to by Mr.. Paulsen. Hardy
"Paulsen & Eyer have deliberately vio-
lated an Agreement sigRnd n. tue presence OF
Mr.. q. W. Turner OF The WORLD and Mr..
Birdsall Cornell.
The agreement was that none OF their
men were to he employed over nine hours
day, and that union wages were to be paid.
In addition. our delegates were TO lie
allowed to go through the shop at any time.
" Outside DELEGATE kil'oran and myself
called at the Hecla Iron Works yesterday to
investigate Complaints that had reached MS
TO the effect that men were working under
WAGES and over nine hours.
-" Mr.. Paul, en- met ~. lie agreed to let
kilioran go through, but Refused me admis-
ont me. so MIR. Paulsen called in about ten
Of his foremen and said. pointing to us:
These arc the men who want to 20
Then he ordered us ont. His tone Was
30 insulting and threatening that 1t left us
N! ROOM Tor d9nbt. -
PLACE and made orr report to the Board OF
Walking Delegates.
They upheld us and ordered, all the men
ont on the Pulitzer, the Lanca shire. Brown
buildings. besides four buildings uptown,
Last night, resolutions were adopted by
the Honsesmiths', Union indorsIng the dele
gates action and declaring that Paulsen II
Eyer were scabs and unfair employers.
h there was a personal disagreement
between. Mr.. l~aulten and myself | wi!l adj
nv a'iAA WV " 81 WV aAAht vi lib
retuElng to let me enter the shops,
w hen the previous strike was ordered /
was selcCttd 10, do the talking for the dele
gates. saw Mr.. Paulsen, and in the course
Of our conversation he said that Walking
Delegate Michael Herman had zone among
the monldcrs and made trouble once before,
and that lie Iii mt want anything to do
u told him that | doubted hia word. |
do yet, for Herman had told me that this
was not 80. and l would tako kiernan's
word nRnInst that of any other man 4 know
Mr.. Paulscli said | made Inn out a liar.
and said so IN the presence of MIR. Cornell.
Then tue agreement which has Just been
broken Was drawn up and signed.
MI. laulsen said then that he WAS only
too glad TO sign i, ani then he turned de-
liberately around aud broke it,.
j. II. King, IT.. the, CONTRACTOR in charge
Of the work o. the Union Trust aud tie
to-day aud concluded an agreement
whereby raulsen 4. Eger's men were 70 be
kent from these buildings.
Tho carpeutcrs. msrble-wurkers and
others who vent out yesterday all went to
work this morning.
There were only three If Paul-eu's men
working on the Union Trust Building ami
fonr on Brown Bros. Building.
Al the Lancashire Insurance CompAny's
new building, in lige street, the sAIne
Fourteen OF pauisen's mon are
about the streets there.
At The orient Insurance Company : build |
Ing, IN Wal. street, the agreement was also
made, and half a dozen OF faulstn's men
are there wondering when they viii 20 To
work.
There have Eeen no Genes of disorder
about any OF the builiins.. everything being
f%aulsgn Esers men have not been in
teriered with y ne least. save that they
The strikers said they had no feeling
against The employers, but were determined
to make the firm do What Is right.