New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-18
MORE WORKMEN CALLED OUT
The GREAT STRIKE SILL SPREADlNu'
COMMISSIONER GILROY'S MEDIATION REJECTED
INDUSTRIES WHICH MAY BE

AFFECTED SOON.
The great strike in the stone industry con-
tjnued to spread yesterday. Neither the employees
nor the employers showed any signs OF giving up
the fight into which both sides say they nave
bcen unwillinyly forced. The members Of the
Granite Manufacturers Association of Ncw-Ehg-
land who havc Offices in this city again dchled
all the statements of the strikers as 10 'he
dimensions Of the trouble, and the representa-
lives of the employees were equally ready 10 coh-
trovcrt the declarations of the members oil inc
association.
Al,boucb the fight has only begun. 1t is sad
flat there are now fully 5000 men idle through
ont the country in consequence OF the gcheral
lockout ordered by the Granite Manufacturers As
sociation of Ncw-EnCand on Saturday Inc
number of men idle i'll this city and brooklyn II
said 70 be about 10000 1t is estimated that
about 5000 men stopped work yesterday IN
various parts Of tho country. Thus far the most
sorious complications that have arisen from the
lockout in this city are due to the strike OF 200
nayers Complaints about the condition OF the
streets where work WAS stopped are pouring into
Commissioner Gilroy's office by the dozen MI
Cilroy made An Intellectual effort yesterday to act
as peaccmakcr between the striking PAYERS ana
the employers. Neither side however, VAS dsposci
10 accept his services lie submitted the let'er
of James Grant, secretary of the Natloha! faNine
Cutters Union, agreeing TO give ninety days notice
10 employers of any proposed change IN agree
ments and providing that a. paving blocks shouiu
be union cut and paved, TO the head o. 'hc
firm of Booth Brothers, paving contractors, AMI
to the Hurricane Island Granite Company. In
speaking of the situation, Mr. Gilroy SAID:
Il had a talk with William BootE, and also
with William McNair, representing the strikers
I |
pcct of a compromise. | offered my services t.
trv 10 effect settlement but both sides are indS-
posed TO come to terms. How long this state of
things will continue | cannot say, hut until some
agreement is reached the work of paving the
streets will he at standstl We have begged
the PAYERS TO let finish some of the smaller
Jobs where the blocks are on the ground and the
streets torn mp, 10 the great injury or business
and the discomfort of the people, but they posi-
lively refuse to do They say that to agree
would be to give up the strike have therefore
been compelled to order Smith 4 Garrity to relay
the old blocks taken mp in West-st. that traffic
may he resumed. | have given Thomas Kelly
similar order on Thrd-ave. This is only tenn
porary cxpedcnt, and when 'he trouble Is over
the old blocks will come up again, and the new
pavement will I've laid
WHO pays for the extra work -
The contractors, of course. 1t is their loss
I cannot allow them to keep the streets in an
impossible condition / want to see the strike
ended as much anybody, bat | cannot take
action against the contractors until tho time
specfed in this contract has expired. Even then
doubt whether the city can al
ere 'wful negligence against them
on account OF the strike The courts might
not hold them responsible any more than II an
earthquake had interfcred with the work. If the
,ofuo laI- fba n'1 nay
pending settlement of the strike. ] shall have
fhcm laid by employees of the department. Then
I shall deduct the cost from the money due from
the city 10 the contractors. III receive many
more complaints about the piles of paving DOCKS
on the sidewalks, the Bureau of Encumhiances
will probably order that tie blocks he removed.
Bids for granite-bock paving in parts of l'ea-
vcr. Cortlandt, Liberty, Church, Fulton Duane,
Canal. Reade, Fourteenth and Forty second sts.
Fourth-avc. from the Bowery TO lhir-
,yseeond-st and Broadway from Thirty
sccond-st TO Thirty-if'h-st.. were opened ycster-
CAV by Commissioner Gilroy. Most of the bidders
have contracts now which they seem to be un-
able to finish The lowest bid was 50 20 a square
yard from Matthew Baird; the highest 50 Gs,
made by d. O'Connel The specifications call
for about ln0, 900 square yards of paving in the
streets named. he other bidders were f.. Thicl-
mann, ir. +. II Mccullough. Fitzgerald Luck,
Thomas Gearty James Pollock and John g. Smith.
At the headquarters Of the National Paving Cut
ters' Union, No. 225 E1st Thiry-ninth-st, Com
missioner Gilroy quoted as having said that
if the strike prevented the laying of paving blocks
lie would take steps to have asphalt paving laid
wherever practicable. Attention was called to the
fact that Mr. Gilroy's sometimes took con-
tracts for laying asphalt pavement 1t was also
said that the contractors whose work was stopped
b,, bo tr,i-o dan
against tile Granite Manufacturers Association of
New-England which ordered the lockout.
II is not likely that the plans Of Nj Giroy to
relay the old paving blocks pending the settle
ment Of the strike. he carried out with any
great success. owing 10 a decision Of the Pavcr'
Union reached Yesterday. II decided 10 al
low no paver TO handle these old blocks. for by
doing so aid would he given the contractors They.
in that case, would not he apt TO bring pressure
10 bear the Granite Manufacturers Association.
The union went even further and decided that
none Of its members should lay paving blocks be-
tween the rails of the Thrd-ayc cable road, which
is now being constructed in the Bowery. William
McNalr. Of District Assembly 4a, Knights of La
Dor, said that if the old blocks were relaid by
inexperienced laborers. as has been proposed the
streets would soon he in worse plioht than they
are now. All work on pavemcnts in Troy was
stopped yesterday by orders from this city
Ah ehtrclN new aspect was given to the strike
yesterday by reports received at the hcaduuartcrs
Of the National Paving Cutters Union. II ap-
pears that there is general cxodu, Of granite
workers Just now from the towns in New England
where the iocked-out quaIrics are situated The
men, II appears. are leaving Gloucester and Rock
port, Mass. Stony Creek. Conn. and MANY other
towns They 90 at once 10 the quarrics in Pcnnsyl-
wanna ana the south In the Southern quarres work
fnpre i
skilled men. II is estimated that more than
5000 Of the men who were locked out last week
or have been obliged 70 strike since that time
have gone to the quarrics 0; the South. Charles
A. Appel. of Lithonia, ga, sent eighty railroad
passes from Newly ork - Lihonia 10 the head
quarters Of the Paving Cutters onion in this
city on Monday. LIE asked tie nffcer. Of tie