The evening world., 1894-04-26
LOCKOUT IMMINENT.
Brooklyn Brewers Give Their En-
ployees an Ultimatum.
Must Decide by Saturday on
"Work or War"
workmen's Demands Entirely IL.
nored by the Bosses.

A lockout of brewery employees will
AXE place in Brooklyn Saturday, unless
Brewery Employees Union No. 80 with
draws certain demands which have been
r .jected by the brewers.
The employees threatened to strike,
and decls ed a boycott against all brew
ers who refused to sign the agreement.
The brewers nave now turned the tables
and decided to lock out all employees
who insisted on the terms of the brew
cry employees ultimatum.
The brewers do not say they will lock
their men out. They use milder an
guage, but 1t means a freeze-out just
the anne. Thew say all those who do
not wish to remain in their employ
without an agreement can go.
Only the brewers who are not In the
brewers pool are concerned in this fight.
They are J George Grauer, Leibinger
& Oehm. Frank Ibert and Pau Weld
mann. The war which they nave de-
clared against the Union is the outcome
of the boycott by the Union against
Grauer's brewery. The Union has been
endeavoring for some time to compel
the brewers outside of the pool to give
havei. ever DOM so, although they en-
ployed union workmen and paid union
wages.
1t is alleged by the brewers, and de-
MED by the workmen, that the union
men resorted to violence when their de-
mands were refused by Grauer, and
broke all the windows In his brewery.
The brewers say they then determined
to take a united stand, and that they will
not recede from their position one jot.
These are the concessions the work
men ask for, which the brewers will not
/. with the execution of foremen.
union men must be employed, and fore.
the labors Of journeymen.
2. Workmen recommended by saloon
keepers shall not be employed, under
n circumstances.
B. Workmen shall not be discharged
except for cause. Sickness is no cause
aa /; no i sSe w z ssaus sesson in et the te sme
ploy,ee shall stop work on n day each
week between Oct. Is and March IT,.
.. No member Of the Union shall be
driver. machinist or stoker.
6. Their snail be one apprentice for
every twenty-five. workmen.
tutie i a de eH'e Work and a '1 week e0 snail
consist Of six work days. Not more
than two hours labor shall be per:
formed satr sun snd at sue dou SGrk rates to be r Raie
hours work shall constitute a days
labor Labor Day and May !, no work
to be performed after Z A. NJ. on the
Former day and after noon on the latter
day. wages to be paid In full for both
8. wages must be paid weekly. as fol.
| lows: To workmen Of the first clasi
I in the w~ash-house. $18, to all others SIG
To all Others in other departments, SIS
During working hours beer shall b
free to all workmen. and where beef
tickets are in use they shall be dis
tributed in unrestricted numbers.
g.. This agreement to be in force from
April Is, 1894. Until April l6, 1895.
The brewers concerned yesterday noti.
fed their employees that they could
continue in their employ at union wages
but that the Union would not be recog
nized. They have until Saturday moor
to decide whether 1t is to be work oil
war;"
The brewers object principally to de-
mand No. 4 in the Unions ultimatum
They were willing. at first to sign the
contract II the MO had consented tc
a modification of that clause, as sug'
gested by them, by substituting the fol
lowing:
All workmen shall be employed a
long as there Is work for them. II busi
ness should decrease during the White
season then there shall be a correspond
ing reduction In the working force. EN-
ployees to be laid off alternately for
day or a week, according to the conditioi
Of business"
The substitute was not accented b.
the Union, and the break followed.