The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-10
PECK, MARTIN & co. SION
End of the Building strIkes-Tho Furniture
Manufacturers Locke

For three years the unions in tho building
trades have been fighting Ieck. Martin 4 Co.
for RECOGNITION. Yesterday tho boycott was
raised and tho pending strikes were termi-
mated The settlement was brought about pri-
marily by Contractor Edward King, who has
many large buildings In the city in course OF
construction where material from Peck. Martin
4 Co. is in use. Contractor King got Peck,
Martin X Co. to agree to q meeting with tho
Executive Board OF the Board OF Walking Dole
gates. 1t was held at the contractors Office
Forty thi d street and Fifth avenue. yester-
day afternoon. Both Mr.. eek and Mr.. Martin
we're present They were thoroughly tired Of
the panorama OF strikes at which they had
been looking for the past three years. and
were ready to recognize the union aud sign its
schedule Az q result the thousand or more
men who have been on strike will return to
work upon the various buildng which are
using Peck, Martin Il Co.'S materials this
morning.
Two more cigar manufacturers settled with
their men yesterday according to union sched-
ules-M. Goldberg OF l.45l Third avenue and
$. q. Brown at Burling slip. There are nine
shops still affected by the strike, but the men
AFRO ssnguine OF success in them all before the
In support OF the cloakmakers strike the
thirty cutters employed BY Meyer Jonasson ~
having a conference with the strike committee.
NJ. VIM; Baungar,en, member OF the firm
Dealers and Of knoMe
as the Manufacturers OF Cabinet Work and
Furniture, says that the lockout Is the most
serious difficulty between employers and en-
ployed that has ever confronted the trade.
The association is an infant only a few months
CID It Includes the twenty-three principal
When our association was formed few
months ago Mr. baumgarten continued.
q N n al in
ture il possible. strikes in our shops by sub
hitting, all labor troubles to arbitration, To
Union No. Z; our present opponents, TO meet
us IN COMMITTEES whenever any trouble in any
The receipt ps Of this letter %as BE-
their secretary. who. stated that the views OF
the union agreed with ours on the subject sew
eral weeks ago Mon No. demanded OF Rnux
u Go. that they discharge their foreman. The
firm refused and the men struck. The firm
then laid the case before our association. and
a committee was appointed to Investigate the
charges against the foreman. They proved to
be malicious ard untrue. Our committee
wrote TO [ mon No. requesting 1t to appoint
a committee to meet ours to investigate Jointly
and II possible to settle the difficulty ON May
then repeated the request and they appointed II
ommittee which met our committee on une t.
had come only TO- hear What We had SI 40
We proposed to them te porary compromise
during tue tine OF investigating the matter in
committee. but this they declined also Tor the
rea-o on that they had no rower. AS 1t was i'm
possible to conduct negotiations In that way.
We asked them a third time to have their union
appoint a committee with which we could ne
gotiate. but on June . the union decided not
10 confer with our association AMI TO continue
tho strike in EouX ~ CO.. shop: We cannot but
consider this step o direct challenge OF our AS
ISOLATION. We ate bound BY the statutes of the
association TO act in unison against this arhi-
trary proceeding OF Union No. 10y closing our
shops against the meInt ers Of that union. We
are emphatically in favor OF employing uni On
men. hut We insist that the union recognize
tho principle OF arbitration"
The cloak manufacturers have formed an
association and apr olnted an Executive Com
mlttee tor the purpose OF preventing strikes
ana adjusting any that may occur. T. n.
Mason. editor OF the CtUdh herIetr. is the Sec
rotary.
The association held n meeting at the Hoff-
man House last evening. I he twenty-thrre
films were all represented. and were uuani-
nous in resolving to stand out for arhit. alton.
Lao last night number Of the furniture
workers Who were sitting in the saloon under
Hslter's Hall. assured u reporter that to-day
the varnishers. caryerS. turner's machine
hands. and in fact. all tho woIkmen in tho
twenty three shops employing members OF
Union No. 7, would strike. Their strike would
be in support o. the men now locked out.