New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-27
NO BREAK IN THE STRIKE.
p,uLDERs AND EMPLOYEES BOTH HOLD
ING FIRM.
arc royEII;s OFFER OF ARBITRATION NOT &C
CEPTED-MANY MEETINGS HELD III HE
ELECTRICAL WORKERS AND
THEIR sYMPATEIZERs.


.,.,.,. ,o,hirg Of startling nature developed
rssy in the strike of the electrical workers.
~ came activity in the matter OF hoidlnS huHieI-
o,s meetings prevailed as on previous Gays. me
,rkers gathered in their headquarters no. %
9r,nton Place early in the day. and remained there
.u late in the evening They passed the hours
t. rlaving games and singing songs, with now and
r an intermission to listen TO reports which the
'-,.o.s and others brought in. The Strike Com
r.,,,ae of the Board of Walking Delegates visited
~. rooms in the morning and held "A short meet
49, and afterward attended a general meeting Of
che Board al No. 139 East Fiftynlnth-st
The meeting Of the Strike Committee and the
roard of Walking Delegates was a prolonged one.
Al IT'S close Chairman Anslow said that no more
strikes had been ordered during the day as the
Strike Committee waiting TO hear the result
OF the meeting of the master masons. He said that
the offer OF Mrs Lowell, of the New-York Council
OF Mediation and Arbitration. to arbtrate the
strike had not been accepted. He also SAID that no
overtures looking toward settlement of the strike
had been received. neither had the committee maze
any to the bosses. Chairman Anslow sald' now
ever that the Strike Committee had received an
important document. but that he was not al liberty
to divulge its contents He also said that Mr.. iei
ham. a hosting engine contractor had asheu mo
engineers to run the pumps in the lresns .ei a"
Missions Building at Twentieth-st ana fi'h-",e.
Since the called out on that pu'i",,s, Wv
cellar has filled with water. ana MI e, ,'li
wanted TO run the steam pumps iio WI. -
on 10 explain to the Board of Walking Deiesa'es'
should no fail TO do So his engineers AT Work on
other buildings on which a strike has not YET oee"
declared, may be called out .
The Electrical Contractors Association heid
meeting from 10 Z p. m AT It's close, ireSlue''
Strong said that Edward J. Feeney. OF the state
Roard of Mediation and Arbitration. had called
and requested that the association make state
ment OF the facts in Its possession relative 10 the
strike to the State Board. The board will meet
to-day probably at the Broadway Central Hotel
President Strong SAID that The contractors VIII
then be represented ana submit written s'a'e-
ment 10 20 on the boards records.
''The contractors will not ask the board to arb,
have nothing to arbitrate. We claim the men have
broken their agreement, and the matter cannot be
President Strong also said that the contractors
had taken steps 10 resume work. although. as
hire non-union men if any of them saw fit. The
association took no action on Mrs. Lowers letter
the alleged meeting of the master masons. He
did not think they had held meeting yesterday.
they had appointed committee ana tried 10
settle the strike, but had failed
There was no meeting of the master masons at
ty-third-st The master masons and their employees
have mutual agreement not to affiliate with
ested directly In the STRIKE Neither the iron
workers. who put up the framework OF the big
OF at present. Their organization was broken up
through big strike two years ago. They and the
strike however. because with all the other build
ing trades strike they are badly handicapped IN
the big buildings yesterday on which the strike
had been declared. The iron and stone had TO be
hoisted by hand instead of steam power and 1t
There are now about 400 men strike about
iS Sa, they ssd the key 10 the situation and that
when the Strike Committee OF the Board OF Walk
stopped on every building under construction in
this city. Brooklyn and Jersey City.