The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-13
LUMBER HANDLERS STRIKE.
Attempts to Bring the New Jersey Own
ers Into Line with New Workers.

Attempts to Bring the New Jersey Own
ers into Line with New Yorker
The strikes aud the lockouts of lumber
handlers in New York have not yet
spread to the lumber yards in Jersey City,
nor does there appear on the surface the
least indication that they will. The
places of the fifty strikers in the yards of
Bucki 81 Co. al Hoboken have all been
flied.
The lumber handlers in the Jersey City
yards are not organized.
The trouble in New YORK grew out of a
refusal on the part OF the Lumber Mer-
chants Association to allow the Lumber
Workers Union to inspect the time books
of the various firms. Most prominent III
the movement to combine against the
Lumber Workers Union was Charles L.
Bucki, who practically controls the yell
low pine lumber trade in this section Of
the country. He has yards in New York
and Hoboken
ALocK OUT.
The union declared u boycott on Mr..
Bucki q ordered his men out on strike.
No sooner was this done than many of
the lumber dealers of New York closed
down their gates, and when the workmen
arrived at their scenes Of toll along the
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confronted with a notice that il they
were not willing to obey the orders of
their employers they could apply for
work elsewhere. Several thousand men
were locked out.
The Central Labor Union has endorsed
the strike Of the lumber handlers in
Bucki's yards.
Union workmen IN the building trades
will not handle lumber furnished by
BucKi, or by any of the firms that are
fighting tue Lumber Handlers Union.
Strikes maj thus result, and there is no
telling where they would end. Bucki. as
has been said, controls the trade in yellow
pine lumber, most of which is shipped
from Florida, while the dozen or more
dealers who control the spruce and pine
lumber trade of Maine are working with
Bucki.
JERSEY CITY ASKED TO ELF.
i'll. V~anderbeek, OF the firm of Van
derbeek & Sons, Of this city, by urgent
invitation attended an informal meeting
of the New York Lumber Dealers Mon
day. All the JERSEY City dealers were in
vited TO attend the meeting. The New
York dealers desire the Jersey City deal
ers to cooperate with them, and sign an
agreement not to deliver lumber for
buildings where trouble exists between
the New York lumber firms and strikers.
Mr.. Vanderbeek made no definite
A0-AA~ 8At 0a lac 40kdAh 1OlGulkG0
Dodge s. Co., and other dealers.
So far as can be ascertained the leading
local dealers will not sign the agreement,
as they fear it might possibly interfere
with supplying their own customers in
New York. Besides, the local dealers do
not think it fair TO sign such an agree
meut until all the New York dealers have
signed it. Otherwise the local dealers
will do all in their power to assist the
lumber dealers across the river.
| sauntered through Vanderbeek's
yards yesterday and talked with several
of the handlers. All said that such a
thing as an organization of lumber hand
lers In Jersey City was not known.
Dodge 81 Co., too, say that none of their
men belong to any union, and Charles IL.
ONeill, the Payonia avenue lumber
dealer, says the same thing. Mr.. O'Neill
says that very little yellow pine lumber is
TO be found in the Jersey City lumber
yards.