New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-05
UOR6ING MEN CRIIICESE .4LDERMEN

TIE WATER POWER COMPANY FRANCHISE DIS
CUssEp Ply THE CENTRAL LABOR UNION.
The action OF the Board Of Aldermen in granting
valuable franchise no the New-lorA Power COMPANY
was severely criticised by the delegates TO the central
Labor Union at their weekly meeting in Clarendon
Hall Yesterday afternoon Roger Harrison. delegate
introduced the subject This company said he,
seeks To tear up the stress for the purpose ~
furnishing hydraulic power by means OF salt wa"r'
which Is 10 be forced through the pipes. il they
succeed in thelr pnrpOe hud ds Il elevator ana ohrr
engineers will be thrown out Of enll ynent The over
from these pipes Is, understand to run IN" ana
I'LL up the sewers. Experience In other cities teaches
me that salt water pipes will last only about Two
wears then the streets must be torn up again ana
the public must again suffer-
j. DAILY another delegate said that he believed that
the protest against the Mayor approving th' lI5iNcsc
should be made to higher authority than the Mayor.
Who is this higher authority u whom y"u refer
asked S. II. Jacobsen.
Croker of course shouted sore Of delegates
A formal protest will be forwarded to Mayor Grant.
Then came a renewal of old subjec', which Is
slowly but surely disrpting the Central Labor Union
the Ehret beer boycott. j. Thompson, delegate
for the Marble Pclshcrs UnOn announced that he
proposed 10 withdraw from the Central Labor Union
because his conscience would not allow him to 1T with
men who voted against indorsinG the boycott sew
eral weeks ago committee was appointed to IN
vesiicate the merits OF the boycott. and reported
An favor of refusing to indorse 1t. The members Of
the committee were charged with having accepted
a hribe Of $40. An investigation committee was
appoincd and II made its report yesterday through
Theodore +. Cuno.
Without reading the evidence Mr.. Cuno read the
conclusions which that all three members OF the
arbitration committee had been grossly derect in the
,,riormance OF their duties, and that at least one
,rcmber of the committee had accepted bride. \
small not broke out the conclusion OF the report
The accused members OF the arbitration committees
ara Delegates Russell, Lowering and Harrison A
motion TO exclude all reporters from the room during
,he consideration of the report provoked lively dis
ci sion After a long and bitter debate ii was de-
cded TO have the report OF the committee AMI all the
evidence in the printed before next sunday and
that the final discussion be held on December Is.
Al the meeting Of the Central Labor fedc aio1. AZ
No "a East Fourth-st.. hour or more wa spent
An, listening 10 statement made by Il delegate Tor
Ale and Porter Brewers Union No l. The delegate
smoke in German al great length and with cOhsctraoe
pa hos in telling OF the sorrow OF German ilan"A
named Fieg. who lives at NJ. 2Olo second ave.
Fleg Is an industrious. sober man, Is maff1el ana
has three chlflen. Ills daughter, Minnie, thirteen
wears old is now In the House OF Mercy al Ihwogh
where she has been since last March fI'g ana rs
wife are nearly hcartbroken because they a. uhiLl-
10 gel possession Of their child. The unions con
nccted with the federation will probably hold mass
meeting sogl 10 arouse sympathy for flcS.
4 call has been issued for The annual convent on
OF the State Trades Assenby 20 he held n he on
mon Council Chamber at Albany on January L.