New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-22
THE BRICK BOYCOTT STARTS.
SHIPMENTS EXPECTED TO CEASE TO-DAY.
WAR BETWEEN THE WALKING DELEGATES
AND THE MANUFACTURERS THAT MAY
CAUSE GREAT MISERY,

CAUSE GREAT MISERY:
| Tho resolution Of the Associated Brick Manufact
urcrs Of New-York aud Brooklyn to withhold ship
mcns Of brick from all points included in the boycott
| Instituted by the Board OF Walking Delegates Of the
| Building Trades against four brickmakhg firms at
Verplancks Point goes into effect to-day. and the
! builders in New.Yorl and Iroolyn beginning
to realize that serious crisis is at hand unless the
| Board of Walking Delegates weatcns and raises the
boycott. Several local builders seen yesterday
! by Tribune reporter and the general opinion among
| them seemed to be that the building outlook has
| seldom been more gloomy Robert L. Darragh, one
| OF the largest builders In the city, said: 81 have
scarcely been prepared to view the subject in its te
light. The terrible consequences aud widespread dis
tress that would result from a between the labor
| unions the Board Of Walking Delegates and the brick
| manufacturers has seemed TO me to stand in the
/ way OF the possibility Of such a conflict.
"Talk Of the New-York Central s'rlke ! do not
think II wOud entail anything like the same amount
Of suffering. Railroad men are in the aggregate young
fellows without families. The responsibility of their
| work requires that they should he to a certain cx-
| tent temperate in their habits. They as class
provident, have natural at their
fingers ends and could adapt themselves readily
! To change OF conditions than the laboring man or
mechanic, who, taken ont of his particular calling, is
| like fish out Of water. Tho engineers and 1remen
on the railways have most Of thom got money put
| when l think of the consequences should this war
fare for ten days after tho present supply OF brick
in the city is used up, IL makes every bone ache In
my body.
THE MEN NOT READY FOR 1T.
"You sec the carpenters bricklayers, irOnworkers,
timers Iaborers and many other classes Of worlmen
were altogether unprcparcd for this emergency They
are in many instances men with families, and, with
the usual mprovidcnce Of tho wage-carncr have let
bv with sayiu 10
winter. depending the two three good months
that upon to the money for their few tons
Of coal and warm clothes that make the winter days
comfortable should this foolish measure Of the dele
gate, be sustained. anticipate breadriOts and serious
| trouble in the winter months
"COuld not the builders and agents who handle
building material by throwing their influence with tho
manufacturers. help discourage the aggressive policy
| of the dclcgatcs7" asked the reporter.
no" answered Mr. Darragh IT Is no nse our
! fighting the labor unions Ny policy has been for
years to give the lahore. whatever he wanted Builders
| can't afford to quarrel with their What avails
II for me 10 think II have not the hands u execute
You zee they are our muscle. and can't do without
! them. Capital unitcs. and why shouldn't labor have
| the same PRIVILEGE? II cannot be denied that the
| aborers have bettcred their condition by uniting
| selfish men will rob the helpless and contractors
wonld not dare % do things today b. their men that
| used 10 DC done In years gone BY. remember some
| time ago. when there were lot Of yOnne mon In the
Binding Association. II proposed to reduce tho
wages Of TIE aborer and many said IL could be done
! with Immunity opposed the from the
start threatened to resign from the association II
Il va, put IN practice. II put I'm practice Tn" men
strack and the result disastrous 10 the builders
| IS well a. The workers Large sums of money were
| lost and great suffering was entacd upon the poor
Arc you, then. In sympathy with tho laborius men
| I'm this matter asked the reporter
Il am ALWAYS In sympathy with the laborlng man.
| said Mr. Darragh. "but am not IN sympathy WIN
TIE walking delegates in their present action This
new power acquired by labor IS very pleasing u those
who exercise H. and II is not 20 lie supposed that they
wonld be any more Just and wise IN its direction than
tho captallsts who employ labor with theirs. When
ldcr, discovered that IL didn't pay to cut down tho
wages Of the men, the object for doing 1t was WIN
drawn and tho power To do was not useh ana "ieh
labor discovers that this newfound power OF uhi'y
can bc exercised that II not ONLY threatens ruin 10
| The builders but starvation 70 their own wives ana
children they Will be cary Of is use, and VIII
reflect well before putting terrible might In opera
| ton We the builders don't fight the union men,
They hurt W. terribly but We know II Is hurting them
An greater proportion. and that 1t VIII cure itseit III
time
aWhat do Won think the result u the fight VIII be y
| asked the reporter
WHERE THE SHOE WILL PINCH.
"A good deal Of money In the manufacturers pocR
| gf.
money making speculation, but fear It Will be con
timed rs such II you could 50 and buy bFck AT
the ward. for sG a thousand. the price PAID for them
here at the wharf. you could make money beyond
donlt. But the manufacturers won't sell BilcK VIII
,, nm nm ND and as the child OF the hborcr grows
thinner the purse of the manufacturer VIII gro"
ftter believe that IS. am told Oh good authority
that 300 900 has been subscribed To buy III ''o o''"
t,r mil holders VIII, can't anord to hold. and here
j. iittlc donLt that plenty oi money cohd be ri.,i
10 iuy In every brick manufacturer f'"p' ID ''~N
un you think other manufacturers ron Gl'u; ;
point, could supply the demand ah.p '' viz We
Not for DAY. said UT DariHFn, Wy nonr
can't get brick enough with these main Gi i r,n
rr Thorn into the cly ~ tc l,t ~ New York hold
together and trade il STOPPED T l1v S the store
threatened contest are hing ISt ,y anS War hopeful and
bappr few DAYS aso getting anxious ana %vTieI
and What The end T he d, am for H tGe II eees to be
.eri0isy iclt but work must cease iohs peioc "''
'''nG Oh V Caodn & Kane Ffty-seconds and North
River agents. who supply sboat mto ,nd pr dcIyerS
Kick with siarrity YESTERDAY. Their contracts wi
mannfacturcs are some of them. for all the Dick
rbo hc .,.,srn was a little dull they hid all oNerIO"n
bu vcr, obliged 20 receive All that ctlc UNI IA nv
hcn So that they can fulnl their contracts WIN t,e
builders Many Of the agents are place. rI,dn Willie
6c ma,nf9ciircrs are not bound u them
'''' v"1abc Jro,. builders. Of No 1870 BroMway
n n ~altne delegate should have taken s.Sn
et,nd a, his Time when bricks were 10" ana th3
could make II to their Interest U hplu
back TIE supply several Other l% r 1da IN supply Of
t5c,, Tor thr threatened famine IL wouuh az
long and that serious result c9ua hT b od de,rgs
Iio'' , Wv Ten DAYS from to-day, and that a uiIy
DAYS soppage would bring about s3n W,
men engaged IN the building TRACES !" '''" ''A
Trooklyn and Jersey City.
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