The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-08-02
EIGHTY BUILDINGS TIED UP.
WALhIN0 DELEGATES IN FULL TILT
VIM a SYMPATuK1IC SHRINE

Il Began with an Employer. Rern,n, TO
Co~ree nn Engineer Into Paying his
Union Duey, and Now IL Hold. $4,000
Worhinsmen In Enforced Idleness at the
Very hest 11-e In the Year for Work.
Tho strikes directed by the Board Of Walk
ing Delegates against buildings for which the
Building Material Dealers Association has
contracts to supply cement, brick lime. and
other materials are beginning to affect many
OF the smaller dealers and also number OF
the public cartnen who were forced into the
quarrel.
Tho strikes began with complaint that an
engineer who was employed on the new
Criminal Court building by the jackson Archi-
tectural Iron Works was delinquent to his
union" which had fin cd him for some breach
OF its laws. He had not paid the fine. Because
he was kept at work the men were ordered out
on strike. and. to avoid delays. Commissioners
OF Public Works Gilroy tried to settle the
matter. Tho result was that the fine was paid
and tho strike declared off,
No sooner was this done than q new strike
was declared against the Jackson Architeo-
tural Iron Works because. as the delegates
alleged. they had a number OF non union mon
working for them. The Jackson company re-
fused to discharge these men. who were faith
against their will to join a union.
Tho Iron League. composed Of the principal
iron manufacturing firms OF New York. Brook
lyn. and Jersey City. and including the jack
son works. took up the matter. and nt u m Getting
Of its Executive Board decided to lock out tho
union houscsmiths and take back again only
those who declared themselves non union
men.
Then the strike was shoulderod hy District
Assembly 253 X. Of l.. representing the
building constructors. Henry 7. Hicks is
Master Workman. 1t was decided to proceed
against oil tho buildings for which the firm Of
J. b. 4 j. NJ. Cornell had contracts. J. NJ. Cor
nell. President OF tho Iron League. was con-
support the Jackson COMPANY in tho fight
waged against It by the delegates.
Tho Public Cartmen's Union was ordered
M WIT lad aOd
though they had nothing. to do with the fight
the public cartmen obeyed: ,
sented to the walking delegates that it twas not
material dealers posted IN. notices in their
yards ordering lockout OF all tho mon who
re- s.n to Wh IT. TIE f e
;ssks tho baIGine %sssraI beaers
Strike after strike has since been ordered for
weeks. until about eighty buildings are tied up
sands Of men who are willing 70 work have
been thrown into compulsory idleness. For
s s hse %op he he
to recoup themselves for the slackness OF trade
in the winter. there has been nothing but a
The Board Of Walking Delegates has been
almost continuously In session for the past
abont men ars idle Hmons these ars
the bricklayers. who. though they never Join
IN hs
The other trades include carpenters. trainers.
masons and laboIers. truckmen. marble cut
AT. yesterdays meeting Of the Board Of
on buildings in sixty-ninth street between
Eighth and Ninth avenues. ut l2sth street.
ana tent srs
On a large building for James j. Coogan at
Efficiently street and sixth avenue Was de-
from JERSEY CITY is rm '~ Hbous viii
y yfs%s Bs,s
dag and asked The Board to let Hp on their
building materials We're bought in jersey
it WAS learned yesterday, afternoon that
and say dsy some 81 tie smsis; Arms nay e
Union Il COMPOSED Of mon who own their i own
horses and trucks. some Of them owning sew
to strike. they are becoming very restive. as
they have lost many thousands Of dollars with
on present or prospective benefit All along
the river front barces containing materials are
tied up. When non-union men try to unload
them the strikers by rough arguments. which
cause death every now and then. make 1t
expedient for them to stop The Board OF
Walking Delegates say they will continue to
fight until they win.
In. some OF the building material dealers
yards It was said Yesterday that men were
gradually coming back to work. About seventy
five mon went out Of Cnndee 4 Smiths yards.
IN East Twenty-sixth street. and i Is said that
about twenty men went back on tho condition
that they will deliver material to any build
ings to which they are sent with 1t.
Among the families of the strikers want is
now beglnEin: to 10 felt. especially among the
worse paid trades. A number Of tho mon are
bitter about 1t and beg n to see the possihi-
ties in one direction OF the sympathetic strike.