The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-07
NEV CHECK TO CITY BUILDING
~,oyS FORCE THE MATERIAL
nrIIERS TO SHUT UP SHOP.
,,,nn.rmen, Brtckmakers and Vendors
\, other supplies Close Their Yards
a 900 Men Now Affected and Stop
n.re Of All Building Here in Prospect.

- 900 Men NOW A"octeO anu otOp'
mage Of All Building Here I'm Prospect.
uampered by the strike OF the team
,,iaars and confronted with demands by
.ha building Material Handlers Union for
..ore nav and privileges, practically all OF
49, dealers in building materials and most
' .t,he lumber dealers in the city and near by
~, IN their yartlsyesterday and went out
81 hn.iness till the unions will listen to
reason. IT,
...ry little brick in the meantime and within
tow DAVIS all contractors who have not
AID in supply of building materials will
hove to suspend building operations. No
hr,cks or other building materials were fur
nished to any contractor yesterday by the
hnildng material dealers
This lock -out directly affects 5000 drivers
and $50 building material handlers at
present. 1t will eventually affect every
hidng and 100000 workers in the city,
and, Unless he unions withdraw their de-
n,ands. there will soon be stop to all build
ina in the Greater New York.
Al meeting of the Lumber Dealers
Association held at, Is Broadway yester-
dav, i, was decided that all lumber yards
too should close to-day until the unions
withdraw their demands. This stat ement
was made after the meeting by Secretary
Crary Of the association:
Last Thursday the Board of Building
Trades demanded Of five lumber yards
in Manhattan that they should sign the
following agreement with the United
Building Material Drivers:
Agreement made this - day OF -.
100. between - Of borough Of -.
In the city Of New York. party Of the first
nart and the United Building Material
Drivers Of New York and vicinity. party OF
the second part
The party OF the first part agrees not to
hire any person not member of the organi-
cation named as the party OF the second
part to drive his or their vehicles for the
delivery of building materials Of any kind
whatever to any building within the Greater
New York and vicinity and to pay the men,
bers OF said association the rates hereafter
set forth and to employ them upon the con-
Glticns herein specified
The party of the second part agrees that
no demand for increased wages or shorter
hours will be made by any member the
organization in his employ until the first day
of May. 1904. and then only upon one months
notice to the party of the first part
Conditions of Employment-Ten hours
work each day shall constitute regular
days labor. The hours of each day shall be-
gin at $50 A. Nj. and shall terminate at $50
p NJ labor performed between these hours
shall be known as regular time. The hour be-
tween noon and / p. NJ. shall be set aside
for q dinner hour.
No labor shall be performed on New Years
Day. Fourth Of July. Labor Day and Christ
mas Day. and labor performed after 30 P NJ.
and before $50 A. NJ. or work performed
SYp I ipcnlp' C RirthCnv Wa ah n
Birthday, Memorial or Decoration Day.
Election Day and Thanksgiving Day shall be
overtime and paid for at one and half the
r ate paid for regular time
On and after May /. 1908. the party of the
first part agr ees to pay the members Of the
the second part. the following rate Of wages
for regular time: Members driving one
horse. with or without vehicles. at the rate OF
tsree f noises a.s the rate Of day
10 one driver shall be required to drive more
than four horses;
All members shall be paid in cash ut quit
ting time on Saturday afternoon for the week
Members who shall be laid of before the
end OF the week shall receive their wages at
the time their services cease.
Upon the five yards refusing to Sign
this agreement" said Mr.. Crary, -tne
drivers stopped work. and these yards
have since been practically closed To
prevent their trade being absorbed by
competing yards and to protect our EN-
plovees who are not members OF the union
individual yards in the metropolitan dis
,rc, have decided to stop making de-
liveries of lumber.
The Board of Building Trades has made
p similar demand on the briokyards, so 1t is
evidently their intention to get control
Of local transportation, and thus to control
absolutely the use OF building material
here
in no instance have the employees at
thu Yards expressed to employers any dis
satisfaction with prevailing conditions or
made any demands
The building material drivers are a
branch Of the Team Drivers Union. which
was already on strike. The team drivers
demanded higher wages and also that no
material should be delivered on any wagon
stamped with a union label. The en-
ployers were willing enough to grant the
higher wages, but were not willing to bind
themselves to use only union labor.
The Building Material Dealers Associa-
ton held meeting yesterday while the
Lumber Dealers Association was meeting,
and both organizations agreed to act to-
gether to oppose the demands. Delegates
from the Brick Manufacturers Association
attended both meetings and agreed to CO.
order ont of the confusion created by the
arbitrary demands of the union: F: NJ.
Holland an employer who attended both
meetings, said to SUN reporter:
There never was at any time in the MS
tory OF labor unions a period when the
demands we're more arbitrary than they arc
now. In few days the unions will COM
pletelv stop work on every building in Man
haitian and The Bronx. 1t is terrible
state Of affairs, but the employers have
been forced into conditions in which they
must make some stand for their own pro-
lection and the protection OF the public
THE demand that every truck sh all bear
union label is preposterous, said A. Hut
ION Of the Hutton Building Material Com
pany. Rondout THE unions in these days
Of prosperity are accomplishing their own
destruction. They will eventually make
capital timid by rendering all enterprises
unavoidable
The shut down extends to Brooklyn. Long
Island City, Hoboken, Jersey City and
most OF the suburbs. In some OF these 1t Is
TO go into effect to-day.
The building-inaterial handlers whose
demands the lockout heads of want "a
day and recognition Of their union In num-
Der Of ways. The employers object TO
the union even more tn an to the wages.
Among other things this new state OF
affairs further holds up work on the SCHOOLS
now being erected or remodel ed 80 far
more than dozen new schools in Man
haitian and The Bronx are delayed and re-
ports have yet to come in from Brooklyn