New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-06
RIG STRIKE THREATENED.
BUILDING TRADES WANT TO FORCE oO
PAPER HANGERS AT NEW UNI
,rDcrTY CHR

T, develoned at the meeting Of the Central Feh-
Grated Union yesterday that striHe oi me-"
thousand or twenty thousand mechanics was
threatened Strange TO say the strike II
comes will not be due 10 any eXistlhs "o"'''
between capital and labor but to dssehsions
among the workingmen themselves. The mat
ter was brought up at yesterdays mee''ns ~
James p Archibald. the delegate OF the Paper
hangers Union who declared that eHor's VIZ
be,np made 10 compel the men OF his organization
10 go out on strike although they ala not want ~
do So as they had grievance. There mas Deeh
strike at the new building of the University 'uD
FIfty-fourth-st. and Fifth-ave.. for about Week
and the unions engaged in It are affiliated WIN tne
Ruildrg Trades Council -iva organization 10 '"o
Board OF Delegates.
Tho PAPER hangers are represented In the boatu
OF Delegates and when called upon 10 strike ~ 'e
prrId,rg Trades Council they promptly refused to
do 49,
Delegate Archibald said that since that time
strong effort has been made TO force the pHPe'
hangers at work at the University Cluo 10 suiN'
This effort is still being made by the hu','',e
Trades Council committee from the latter pod'
called on the superintendent of Beck x 20, the
contractors who employ the painters ana told MIN
that II he Continued to permit the men 10 S'"s ~
work they would order strikes on an ouu.is'
whore men OF unions affiliated with the pu'Iu'"s
Trades Council were employed. TINS committee,
NJ Archibald declared had also called on several
cha, tho Central Federated Union take immediate
s,ons in the matter. as he believed that II II did
not Tho long-expected clash between the boafu Ui
neegatos and the Building Trades Counci VIII
soon follow and will result In strike OF Gisahuc
proportions 49,, <...-., t-o,ar,,od r-,ton on
tho motion of Delegate Archibald. was instructed
20 uric IN both the Board OF Delegates ana the
Ruidlng Trades Council. and try TO bring them 70
eetbcr so that the friction between them might be
removed Mr. Archibald said afterward that IL 5nc
trouble between the two bodies was not speedly
settled a big strike. involving all the pulidlhs
trades might ensue at any time , = 49,
The Building Trades Council Is an oushoot OF inc
BOARD Of Delegates and II has long been teared Dy
workingneu that trouble between them would re-
sult The Board OF Delegates represents fully
thirty thousand men alone. while the BullGrng
Trades Council has about twelve thousand. J. ne
Central Federated Union will try vigorously II IS
said 10 bring about amagamation OF the t"o
bodies so that all danger may he removed
The meeting Of the Central Federated mon yes
terday was held in Clarendon Hall. in East IhiI
teenth-st. The labor men had made their nead-
quarters there for years. but left 1t two months
AGO because non-union refreshments were sofa or
Inc premises Their return yesterday 70 thelr olu
stamping z grounds caused some enthusiastic suit-
porters 10 contribute large floral horseshoe Wlt1
The words Contra! Federated Union. inscrined
upon IT, The emblem was hung up IN 'front.' OF the
chairman's desk.