The sun., 1903-05-08
STOPS ALL BUILDING WORK.
CLOSING or MATERIAL YARDS
WILL BE FELT TO-DAY
And More Thousands 0f Workers VIII Bo
Thrown Idle TIN the Team Drivers
Union Agrees to Let Other Men Have .
Chance to WOrk-Crisis In Labor Fight.

Thrown Idle TIL the Team Drivers
Union Agrees to Let Other Men Have .
Chance to WOrk-Crisis in Labor Fight.
Prominent builders and dealers in build
ing materials asserted last night that prac-
tically all building in this city will be at a
standstll to-day and will remain so until
the troubles with the truck drivers who
convey material to the buildings reach some
sort of settlement.
Meetings Of the Lumber Dealers Asso-
citation and the Association OF Dealers in
Masons Building Materials, whose members
have closed their yards, were held ycster-
day at the headquarters of the Lumber
Dealers Association. ~ Broadway. These
are acting in concert and the brick manu-
facturers are with them. One we'll. known
lumber dealer said
Il think voice the feelings of both the
building material dealers aud the lumber
dealers when l say that IL we agreed to the
demand that we employ only union drivers
we would be putting ourselves absolutely
under the domination OF the Board OF Build
ing Trades, Should we yield to this de-
mand then every time the board had trouble
with building contractor its agents would
come TO tho lumber dealer and the building
material dealer VINO supply tnat contractor
and threaten to order strikes OF their men
unless they refused to deliver supplies to
this contractor. We could not consent to
Put ourselves in such position
The shutdown of the yards caused the
utmost confusion in the building operations
through the city even yesterday. Under
present conditions large quantities of
material cannot be stored where building
is being erected The contractors, in most
cases. get their supplies from day to day.
None OF them have large enough yards in
which To store more than enough material
TO last a day or two.
Last night a labor committee was ap-
pointed by the Lumber Dealers Associa-
tion, TO make known it's plans while the
fight with the unions lasts. The committee
gave out this statement:
l. Since the morning all the lumber wards
The last to close shut down this afternoon.
We ere not prepared to say where that yard
"fIs ~i,hdraw ""H iher t' dem and: that we emnioy
dealers. we understand. have made 4 similar
decision. As TO the statements Of unions
that they can get building material from non
, building material and the lumber dealers asso-
Citations control practically all the trade in New
York and vicinity. They have members even
IN Jersey City.
Walking Delegate Rogan OF the Building
Material Drivers Union announced yester-
day that the union was trying to negotiate
with the truck owners association 10 get
its members to sign an agreement by which
only union drivers will be employed. These
are independent truck owners. Rogan
said that if an agreement were made with
them. enough material could he brought
from outside ports on floats and put on
trucks here to keep building going in the
city.
'fhe building material dealers and the
lumber dealers say however. that the
amo,In, OF lumber and material brought
In in this way would be insignificant