The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-13
lINE UP AGAINST THE UNIONS.
c,,I JssrED FOR 4 GATHERING
or THE BIILDING TRADES.
r.. rake steps "to Remedy Existing In
tolerabie Conditions" tho Call Says
brooklyn Employers VIII Act With
vonhattan- building At . standstiu.


Observation-Disclosures At . standstill.
Tho BOARD OF Managers of the Building
r.,dss Association at a meeting held yes
.a,Jav in the Building Trades Club, at 1923
v.oadvav. issued this call for a meeting
ali the associations Of employers in these
trades
.rn, t,,ne has arrived when employers OF
,,hnr IN the building trades are facing
,a,,ous situation and meeting will be held
49, rr1ay. MAY is, at s p. NJ. Mt the Building
1radcs Association. ll23 Broadway. for the
.,rnose OF determining what steps shall be
,sl.n 10 remedy the existing intoleraole
conditions You are earnestly requested
na nrrs.n, WARREN A. CoNovER.
President.
,,.er the meeting member of the board
said 10 SUS reporter:
We are compelled to take unusual action
n, account of unusual conditions. The
,,,,s has come when the line between the
ust demands and the unjust demands OF
labor must be defined. otherwise it will DO
impossiple for building contractors to con-
,n,,s in business. What action we may
take at this meeting will not predict II
,becontractors stand together in the present
svbt against union domination there Is
not the slightest doubt that moro rational
snd intelligent idea of the relations be-
tween employers and employees will be
reached bv the workingmen."
The employers in the building trades in
BROOKLYN are taking similar action. The
association of employers in Brooklyn, like
,he Binding Trades Association in Man
ba,,an. will meet next Friday evening at
the Mechanics and Traders Exchange, and
oreauize permanently. The association
vii be protective, and, II necessary. az
rres-ive 1t will work in harmony with
the Building Trades Association Of Man
haitian while the present crisis lasts
general meeting of the Iron League,
cotnposed of the principal employers and
manufacturers OF structural iron, was held
Yesterday afternoon in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, to take action on the strike OF the
Inside Architectural Ironw workers to en-
force demands for new wage scale: y M.
Cornell of the j. B. 4 j. NJ. Cornell Com
represented were Milliken Bros, the Hecla
Iron Works. Leeinson 4 just. ,Richey,
Brown 4 Donald the Cooper Wiegand
Company and Garrigues Co.
The demands of the ironworkers are
for 30 cents an hour for journeymen, and
so much objected to as a demand for new
agreement, in which the following clause
occurs
A sympathetic strike is not to be re-
CaT0e0 as q VIOLATION Oh Vic dSI
The employers will sign no agreement
containing this clause. After the meeting
the following statement was given out
by c. NJ. Cheney. acting secretary OF tho
Iron League.
The Iron League and committee from
citation and the Wire Manufacturers' Assoc
citation met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel l.. yester.
unanimous IN" resistance. to the strike Of the
inside Architectural Iron Workers. which ID
now on.
The strikers said yesterday that fifteen
contractors. employing 400 men, had granted
the demands. None Of the contractors
belongs to the Iron League.
An instance was given yesterday 6y I.
Association Of the present autocratic exer-
ciae Of power by the walking delegates.
He said:
the other day, an Italian was employed
cleaning away the refuse In the cellar. The
electrician in charge of the building came
sround and saw that the cellar was dark.
He made a connection between two wires
attached to a dynamo and attached an
was doing. The delegate OF the Electrical
Workers Union heard OF this. According
TO labor union rules, for any ono to touch
a wire except a member Of the union was
crime almost as serious as sassing walking
delegate.
WHO did this?' thundered the delegate.
The offending electrician was pointed out
and the walking delegate, after separating
the wires. putting the place In darkness
and then joining them again, as member
Of the union, issued this ultimatum:
-'If anything like this happens again
we'll pun every man out Of the place,
see7'"
At the headquarters Of the Lumber Deal,
ers Association a statement was issued
Yesterday which said that volunteer
corps Of inspectors was continually on duty
At the Bridge and at every ferry watching
for lumber coming in from outside and
that the shutdown of the lumber yards
Is complete.