New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-18
TEN THOUSAND MEN MAY STRIKE TO-DAY

TIE sTrAN-rITTERs AND HELPERS NOW OFT
LIKELY TO HAVE MANY sYMPATHIZERs.
Tie building industry is on the verge of another
disturbance which is considered more serious than
the recent strike of the housesmiths. The Board
OF Walking Delegates will meet to-day to consider
the a5yjsallitiv Of ordering strikes on about one
hundred buildings Several meetings Of the bosses
and the men were held yesterday and strikes were
only erted by the fact that each side was waiting
10 hear the result of the others deliberations
There was every indication last night that the
strikes will De ordered to-day The strikes VIII De
sympathetic ones. in support Of a strike OF the
'steara:.tttrs and helpers. Of whom more imam one
thousand now on strike
The Master tSeam and HOt-Water Filters ASSo-
oiatlou hello a meeting yesterday and its members
voted that they would not give in to the demands
OF their men until they first returned TO work
Secretary Lowe OF the association, said last night
that the men employed in twenty-three shops Whicn
controlled about % per cent OF the steam sniS
that The frst strike in ten years IN iaci IL
was the first that the association had ever hau' ne
Early in the present year the Enterprise Asso-
cation OF Steam Filters and the Progressive Asso-
cation OF Steam Helpers. quarelled and IT was I'M
possible for The bosses to make an agreement WIN
Them Early IN November the trouble between the
TWO association was settled and new SCI Oh snop
rules was agreed upon. They suDmlt'ea us auieo
tons that they would hold conference win th EN-
10 talk over the matter Ihey alu hoe w Van, 0 The
conference. but Immediately ordered susS, ~.
men went out or November ~ and are stu. 6uI S
Their action so unfair IN SulhlflS ave
promised 10 confer with them on the new rules .hdl
We decided this afternoon that they must now re
turn 10 work before Will arbitrate the matter.
The strike Is not a question Of wages nor hours.
We paid our sttam-tteTs s. 30 day ana the helpers
s They worked eight hours. The rules Whlci
they demanded should govern our SHOPS Were sim
ply ridiculous one of them was that the superin-
ieDdents should be practical steam-htters' mem
beers Of their association and recognized by the Ss
ISOLATION Another was that Whenever the VOTE
was more than a mile from the shops carlares
should be- paid whether the money was used OF not.
still another rule sought TO stop the cutting OF ce
tain sized pipe by the machinery now IN use III Ihe
shops This would be a backward step Inc
steam-htters are trying to make LABOR trust p re
fus!ng 10 let men enter their association Ihe9
Will not give enough men 10 DO our WORK
John Tasker, OF the Steam-Fitters Executive
Committee, said that 1000 of the steam-hlteis anu
helpers were strike for recognition OF certain
shop rules The headquarters OF the strikers r,, -
Central Hall in West Thirty-second-s st lashei
ssij frr-her thar twenty of the shops had adopted
Inc rules He understood that sympathetic strikes
had already been ordered on many oil the DIG
buildings. 49, 49,. -, ,.oo, mailing
Th. BOARD of Walking Delegates has been waiting
for the finish of the housesmths strike before tah-
ing action on the strike Of the steam-htters Inc
board Will meet to-day and II II decides 10 ofuet d
General strike 1000 men will 60 out.