The evening world., 1891-05-14

the work. All the men win be kept At work .
day or two lonver, and n no suitable lumber
can then Ue secured tney viii ue laid oq,
stone houses on EieniJ- fourth street near
Amsterdam avenue. tie mas enough lumber
to last two days vet. After thus Is gone his
On Eiahty-nfh street. between Columbus
and Amsterdam avenues, p. Nelson Ia build
Ing slx brown-stone houses The fourth story
further.
TIE foundations Of four houses are up ana
the door beams are LAID on Nineteen street,
have been laid nff here, and no one can work
but lew hricklayers, who have less than
week OF work ahead.
At Ninetv-6rs, street and Amsterdam avenue
three stores afeSbeing built The supply OF
lumb has Given out and twenty-five men
have been laid on, the rest will follow Satur-
day.
c. W. Fredl,ne IL building i've brown-stone
houses on Ninety-second street, near the Bou-
levdrd. Last nighi he laid on nj, entire force
or NSty men, because no could not yet any
suitable Iumnor.
ON many of the buildings going up enough
lumber remainsto carrS the men up TO saturday
night. After that there wlll be no work:
A carpenter name West, IN West Eightv-
fourth street, saws he has tried his best tn get
| some nnlshinr lumber, out the Kind he wants
could not 10 found.
Many o. the bu,ders are In sympathy with
tho dealers, and large numbers Of men are
complaining because they have been laid on,
as they say, unnecessarily.
MANIFESTO OF THE LUMBER DEALBRa
Following Ia the text of a manifesto issued
BY the Lumber Dealers Association. 1t ex-
| plains itself:
| "To ne Consumsrs If Lumber n Nsp Yorh CITY asd
| Vicinity.
"1he lumber dealers Of this city aud vicin-
| lty have closed their yards anj are refusing 10
deliver any material to the builders in New
York city. The dealers wish to explain to their
customers the reason for this extraordinary
AN attempt is being made by the Board OF
Walking Delegates, bv using the boycott
against one lumber yard at time, to take on
themselves the entire management OF the labor
necessary for running the lumber yards OF
| New YORK.
"Besides establishiug the rates Of wages, the
pay for overtime and the hourn Of labor, the
walking delegates propose 10 dictate VINO shall
and who shall not be employed IN every yard
| In the city.
lumber dealers have decided to close their
| In removed.
"Tae lumber dealers are not lighting labor.
They nave been paving and are willing TO pay
."We tsr the builders and other consumers
OF lumber OF New York who are our friends
ana cua'omers to join with the lumher dealers
AMI other trades an Industries IN an enort TO
| achieve our Independence OF The lntolerabe g
| tyranny OF the Board of Walkin2 Delegates.
FRAMERs' UNION REToRrs.
In regard to a statement made by several
| boss trainers that tuere are many Incompetent
| wOrEmen among the strikers, Inc otiicers nj
the FramerN' Union have said for pu ulicRuon
at has been the habit among nOBses to favor
tie employment OF young men of otHer or nc
traies to lrNrn tNr iramsrs' trad and ther
later to reduce the wages oi all upon the pre-
tense that here were fellows working on thi
or that Job who did no; know now tonandle I
| beam. >"
Several non-union men Joined the striker
YESTERDAY.
7. V. Powierly. Samuel Gompers, John w.
| HAYES, 7. i. Mcclure, George Warner, j. r.
Archibald. Jam NcKiu, ald others raw,
been invited to speak AZ trr demonstration o
the Cenirrl Lab Union In favor OF striking
building trades worSmen, at JOnes's Wood,
May 20.
The Committee IN maxim: arrangements fol
an ate udnncr Of at least NY ihoushnl reope.
Az strikers Will De admitted free OF charya
| On account Of the demOnsir alton the Build
ing Trades Section, tho Central Labor Uni0i
has adjourned Its regular weekly meeting Il
Friday, May 90.