New-York tribune., 1903-05-30
MAY END BUILDING WAR.
HOPE OF RESUNING WORK.
Board of Building Trades Decides to
Reconsider Acti0n.

There a belief yesterday that next week will
see the end OF the shutdown in the yards Of the
lumber and building material dealers. and the labor
troubles of which II the result The Board OF
Building Trades. realizing the seriousness OF the
situation, decided its meeting yesterday after
noon reconsider its action in supporting the de-
n1ands OF the Building Material Drivers Union. as
the shutdown Will be called off until this sup
port is withdrawn.
The shutdown was the direct result of the de-
naands of the Building Material Drivers Union for
q wage scale and that the yards be unonizsd.
and the Endorsement Of the demands by the Board
of Building Trades. After the meeting Of the
board yesterday the following announcement was
made:
anq queTs9a Of fPPoEn 55o the dfnSs S 5 of the
the matter be reconsidered-
MAY REsc1ND ENDORSEMENT.
The board had debated for three hours behind
closed doors before this announcement was made
1t learned that there great deal OF dis
satisfaction among of the delegates ac-
count of the making idle of so many people owing
10 one union, and 1t is believed that action may
be taken Monday TO rescnd the Endorsement Of
the demands of the Building Material Drivers
Union.
The committee Of FIVE appointed by the board to
invoke the aid of the courts against the Lumber
and Building Material Dealers Association, also
changed its plans, apparently It was announced
yesterday afternoon that the committee will be
fore the associations early next week with the
proposal that the yards be open yards. which means
that union or non-union men can be employed with
discrimination
John J. Donovan president Of the Board Of Build
ing Trades. said yesterday with regard to supplying
men for the schools that matter who delivered
The material for the schools union men would
handle It This did not apply 10 material for con-
ira cts outside Of the schools.
Representatives OF the Lumber and Building Ma
teriaI Dealers Association said yesterday that in
Brooklyn all material carted by non-union men.
there material drivers union in Brook
lyn Chairman Bell Of the labor committee Of the
Building Material Dealers Association said
In 1882 there similar fight 10 the present one
for the untonZing OF the yards The unions lost the
fight and since then the yards have been nOr-unton-
All these years therefore. the union men have been
using non-union material. and We VIII not make
yards union yards the conditions viii remain
the same after the present trouble is over.
It was said yesterday that, although the con-
tractors builders and others anxious to end the
present deadlock. they may not end 1t until num-
Der Of strikes and other troubles which still
settled ended
The shutdown began in the lumber yards Of Man
haitian and The Bronx on May 3. and in the build
ing material yards the following day II was after
ward extended to Brooklyn. A number of brick
layers and others who rendered idle have since
left the city. In all about hundred thousand
have been thrown into involuntary idleness by
the shutdown and the labor troubles leading to it.