New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-30
STEAMFTTTERS LOCKED OUT
NOME OF THE MEN SIGN THE AGREE
MENT OF THE MASTERS AS
ISOLATION.


TO SETTLE THEIR ORIGINAL DISPUTE AND
PREPARE THE WAY FOR PEAcE-BISH-
oP POTTER LIKELY TO RE UMPIRE.
The lockout as tho Board Of Walking Delegates
tern, r. Of the steamiters employed by the Hrn's
COMPOSING the Master Steam and Hot water r"'eis
Association went into effect yesterday morning. anu
as far as could he learned none OF the men s'Sheu
tho new agreement OF the bosses and returned 10
Work.
The following are the firms in the ASSOCIATION ana
| ,he number of men employed by each: Giilis a
| Gcoghegan Nos 557 and 80 West BroadwaY' ."
men: Baker. Smith & Co. 30. - West houston ST.
800 men; j. a Suter & CO.. Nc. I'll Yves; Broadway
$50 men: Blake & Williams. Nos. 1862 and 3bi west
broadway 50 men: Johnson e Harris. No. @V' W est
broadway % men: Wells & Newton Forsyth-st'
near Houston-st 10 men; EnocA Rutzer' NO ~
/ Centro-st 100 men the Mercer Company. NO lo'
Centre-st. 10 men: Evans. Amiral co. 10 Il DeS-
ST.. 30 men, Frank Dobson. Forty-second-st., pc
tween Second and Third AYES, 80 men, ana me
James Currdn Manufacturing Company lhlr'9-
slxth-st and Tonth-ave., 80 men
The association held a conference at is rooms, NO
2GO West Broadway. yesterday and decided TO issue
the following statement. explaining its position:
are a union organization and that they are so
recognized by other unions ana tnis Is neiorl,
| no question is raised as to their regularity mus
the question OF union or non-union la3or Is nor IN
volved but simply the fact as TO whether TINS par
ticmIar kind OF work belongs to the iourneymen
steamters or to ,hg men tb
filters have no. taken part IN any Way conS ,i
Master steamftters on their part claim that the
Enterprise Association Of Steamfitters has broken
firm of master steamitters without; hrsi submit
ting the question at issue to committee OF arbi-
tration as provided in the agreement
Tho facts i'm the case are that the delegate OF the
Enterprise Association caused all OF the steam
filters OF this firm TO he taken away excepting
three men. claiming that by leaving three men he
did not cause general strike asahst the nrfn 'n ms
Objectionable methods Of a strike were employsd;
within the meaning Of the terms of the agreement,
and after notification to Tie EnterGrse Association
| ton declared the agreement broken and at an end
agreement broken there can he no doubt as to the
fact and there being no agreement, each firm OF
set of new rules, i'm no way Objectionable. and
without waiting TO read or consider the rules so
| proposed the members Of the Enterprise Associa-
| ton have gone on strike.
The association also gave out copies Of tho new
rules which the firms in the association required
their employees sign II they wanted TO go TO work
Yesterday Henry Il. GOmbcrs. secretary Of the asso
citation said thai there nothing different in the
new rules from the old agreement between thu as
ISOLATION and tho men. with the exception OF the
elimination Of the clause glvlcg recognition TO the
a member Of the association said Yesterday that
he thought the association would be upheld in It's
action by the United Building Trades. the central
body Of builders and contractors OF the city and
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struggle between the central body and IN" Board of
Walking Delegates.
The locked-oui Steamfitters assembled at Central
Hall in West Thirty -second-st. yesterday. and de-
clared THAI they Woult not sHn the new rules of
the master stcamfittcrs. The Board OF Walking
Delegates also met in East Fifty-nnth-st.. hut did
not orde- any sympathetic strikes. Matthew Muir
raw delcgat. of the Plumbe s Union, which Is not
affiliated with the Board said that would he fool
ish to order sympathetic strikes.
The positions taken by each side in the present
employers feel that their business should not be
brought TO a standstiil by quarrel between two
| labor unions the control Of certain work.
which the employers do not care who controls the
men declare that the employers broke their agree
ment by sublettng contracts to frm-the John
son Temperature Regulating Company-which
plOys on-uniOn men.
/ \ conference Of the committees appointed hy the
Board Of Waking Delegates representing the
etedmfitters and by the plumbers was held in the
See House. 40. - Lafayette Place. last night.
Bishop Potter WAS also present. fhc holding OF this
/ conference agreed upon before the master
,teamdtters announced their determination 20 take
/ the hull b. the horns ana end the strike by com
pclling their employees to sign new agreement
As a result Oi last NIGHTS conference. the Board
Of WALKING Delegates and tho plumbers agreed 10
appoint new committees. these committees to select
n umpire and abide by the lattcrs decision in rea-
ton TO the dispute between the two unions Bishop
Potter will probably De chosen the umpire The
trouble between tho two unions there fore now ap-
nears TO ae in fair way Of settlement. and after
an agreement has been brought about the master
stoa mftiers and their employees may speedily settle
general strike OF the building trades will hen be
cd