The sun., 1903-11-12
FULLER CO.'S WORK STRUCK,
AND UNGRATEFUL HOUSESMITHS
ARE AMONG THE STRIKERS.
All the Company's Bricklayers Out Be
cause II Didn't Keep Q Rule Of an
Association OF Which II Isn't Mem.
ber--Its Arbitration Disresarded.

The George A. Fuller Company, after
trying to keep on good terms with tho
building trades unions since the general
shut down by the Building Employers
Association began last May,is now entangled
in two strikes of its own, The union brick
layers we're ordered out yesterday on all
the company's contracts, on the ground
that the company had violated rule OF
the Mason Builders Association, OF which,
incidentally, 1t is not a member Also a
general strike was ordered on large build
ing at Fourt eenth street and Sixth avenue,
in sympathy with the journeyman stone
cutters who quit work because the stone
cutting was sublet to William Bradley q
Son, with whom the stonecutters have a
fight. About 800 men quit work on TINS
building. including ll5 ironworkcrs belong
ing to the former union of Sam Parks now
of Sing Sing.
In all, about loo bricklaycrs are a fiected
by this strike. II is the first important
strike of bricltlayers i'll twenty years, In
a few DAYS. however, the laborers and the
men in several other trades will be affected
and several thousand more workers will
he thrown idle. The bricklayers unions
are not affiliated with any central body,
and have signed the arbitration agreement
of the Employers Association.
The peculiar feature of their strike is the
non-ncalbcIship of the Fuller company IN
the association whose rules il is accused OF
violating on the Mercantile Building. at
Twenty-third street and Fourth aven e.
The company was formerly in the Nla on
Builders Association, but is so no lonLer;
but tlis. according TO the Interpretation o.
the agreement by the unions, cuts no neuTc
The rule alleged TO be violated provides
that members Of the association must in
clude in their contract for building all
cutting of masonry, the paving OF brick
floors, the brick work of the damp-proofing
system and all freproofng, and must not
lump or sublet the installation If the labor
10 a bricklayers work as recognized by
the trade. The union makes all con-
tractors keep this rule.
The Fuller company snbet the fireprootlng
work in the Mercantile Building to the Ma
tional Fireprooting Company. which EN-
ployed its own men instead of employing
bricklayers.
The other buildings affected by the strike
include the new Times building AT Forty
third street and Broadway; the Rogers
building at Fourteenth street and Sixth
avenue, the Butterick building, II building
at Wall and Water streets. the Sturtcvant
building at Broadway and Forty-second
street and building in Pine street
As the Fuller Company declined TO take
part in the shutdown ordered by the en-
ployers association the members OF the
latter we're not dispeased at the news Of
the strike Yesterday. The Fuller Company
had it's own arbitration agreement recog-
nizing the Board Of Building Trades, which
the employers association was fighting,
but that doesn't figure.
A representative of the Fuller, Company
admitted to SUN reporter that all the COM
pany's bricklayers had struck. He added
that 1t was over technical dispute in which
the firm had no direct concern