New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-05
FAIL TO END THE STRIhE.
IRON LEAGUE LEADER REFUSES TO
MAKE CONCESSIONS.
THE MEN DECLARE THEY HAVE MONEY ENOUGH
tn FIGHT THE BATTLE TO A FINISH

TO FIGHT THE BATTLE TO FINISH
Tho stri,se ~ the housesmiths Is still and,
cordng 70 the resolutions passed by the strikers
Executive Committee last night. II VIII be iousht
10 the end This sudden and unexpected endlhe oi
the negotiations for a settlement which have peeh
pending for several days the strikers declare "as
unavoidable
II WAS thought that everything had been arranged
FOR conference between committees OF the strikers
and Of the Iron League and that the prelimnaries
for the men return to work to-day woulu DE
ouIck.y adjusted. The situation Is now practicaHy
the same as it at the beginning or the trouoe'
A committee OF Mr.. Cornell's old employees went
10 hs office yesterday by appointment, they say 10
meet committee OF the Iron League one OF the
committee saw Mr.. Cornell only, and the meeting
lasted only a moment. After 1t was over Mr. Cornel
said
THE Executive Committee OF the Iron League
adheres TO the position already taken Tney Will see
a committee OF their employees after the strike mas
been declared off"
Last night the Executive Committee of the strikers
met at Clarendon Hail. After the meeting President
Larry OF the union, gave the press statement as
follows:
The Executive Committee of the United House
smiths and Bridgemen's Union, :tter hearing the
statement OF the committee appointed to meet the
Iron League, that Mr.. Cornell had refused to meet
them as he had not been officially Informed that
the strike had been called off. has decided 10 con-
tnue the strike Indefinitely. The men who were
called strike Will be paid out OF the reiei
fund Saturday. -
President Larry said the strike benefits were not
paid on Monday because 1t was expected the strike
would be called Off tt, .,
I'VE have sufficient funds to conduct the strike
he continued. I'VE received telegram from tne
housesmiths' union in Chicago to-day saying that y
had $500 at our disposal. We have also had ald
proffered to us by labor organizations in TINS cay
and elsewhere. The brickiayers and the engineers
ar. also standing by and will not return TO work
until union men are employed. They have DECIDED
that they will risk their lives wOrkHS win n
competent union housesmiths. Mi.ken brotn-
ers had only siXty-two men, most or Wnom were
laborers al work the Seigel-Cooper building yes
terday. The Cornels had few Italians az work
on the building Wllam-st. and Exchange Place.
They nave been using bolts instead Of rvets In the
ironwork and the Building Department has ordered
the brickwork torn down the evil can be reme-
died They can get nobody 20 DO the work -
housesmiths at work the Seigel-Cooper building,
and that he thought the most of them were com
peten men. He said that he had nothing TO do wl!n
the conference at Mr.. CornelPs office He said
further that he would continue to pay the same
wages al before the strike. and would not dscrlmi-
nate either in favor OF or against the strikers;
II was said by member Of the strikers Execu-
tive Committee last night that the reason the men
would not declare the strike off before the commit
tee Rad met with the Iron League. was that they
did in 1891, and that the League then refused TO
meet them.