The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-11
10000 MEN GOING TO WORK,
THEIR UNIONS HAVING COME TO
THE BOSSES TERMS.

| Electrical Workers and Five Other Union
Follow Suit and VIII Soon he BUS
Six Trades Defy sam Parks's Boar,
Collapse or the Tie-np Seems Near
The first break in the shutdown whicl
has stopped all building work in Man
haitian and The Bronx since May is wa
announced yesterday by William X. Fertig
secretary OF the Building Trades EN-
! ployers' Association. Nine unions whicl
have accepted the associations arbitra
ton agreement were notified to send thei
members to their old contracts at once
This, Mr.. Fertig said, would give EN-
ployment to about Is 900 men.
The unions which had formally accepted
the plan were said by Mr.. Fertig to be:
Amalgamatcd Painters and Decorators of New
York and vicinity.
Local Union No. 81 Of the Brotherhood Of Paint
ers. Decorators and PaperhangeTs OF America.
Local No. ~ of the United Upholsterers' Unlor
Of New York.
Mosaic Workers Association.
New York.
M0dellers' League OF America.
Mosaic and Encaustlc Tile Layers Union, Local
No. 10
HexaSon Labor Club of the Tile Layers Helpers
Local No. 20.
Amalgamated Woodworkers International
Union
Six Of these unions are in the Board of
Building Trades. The decision to start
work was made at general meeting
Of the Employers Association held late
yesterday afternoon at 1923 Broadway.
After the foregoing list Of nine unions
had been prepared the Electrical Workers
unions sent acceptances Of 1t to the individ-
ual employers associations in their re-
spective trades.
These, said Mr.. Fertig, will be turned
over TO the board of governors which
will meet daily for few days and notify
the unions as they send in their acoeptances
to put their men to work The unions
that are still holding out will come in line
soon
About $4,000 members OF unions will also
go to work under the George A. Fuller
agreement on Monday, which will make a
total of about 10000, or perhaps 35 900,
who are expected to be at work by Monday
Some Of them will be working to-day.
At yesterdays meeting of the Board Of
Building Trades 1t was reported that five
of the unions represented at the meeting
had accepted the arbitration agreement
of the Employers Association and that
twenty-nine had either rejected it or were
on the fence about 1t. Regarding these
twenty-nine unions acting Secretary Fyfe
said:
"Some of the delegates talked evasively
as TO the attitude of their unions regard
ing the arbitration agreement. They seem
to be waiting to SEQ how the cat will Jump
before they takn final action. We took
only snap vot" Today. On Monday the
special business Of tho board will be whether
or not the unions which have agreed to the
plan shall be expelled"
The employers look fer stampede among
the unions to nccept the plan next week,
Some of the walking delegates spoke in
favor Of il last night
The Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union
met last night in Mannerchor Hall, Fifty
sixth street near Third avenue but con-
trary to expectation, lid not rescind the
previous decision against adopting the
arbitration agreement of the Employers
Association
Sam Parks who acted as general spokes-
man, said that nearly all the members
were working anyway, and the union would
not stand for plan that practically did
away with walking delegates, Parks also
said that he had been maligned in the
pagers,
With reference to the resolution passed
at previous meeting ordering President
Robert Z. Neidlg Of the union to leave the
Civic Federation, Parks said:
Il guess he has left the Civic Federation.
He could not serve two masters. Emerson
McMillin, chairman of the Cancellation
Committee Of the federation. favors non
union labor. That makes it impo ssible
for man to serve the union and the Civic
Federation at the same time"