New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-07
GLAD THAT PARKS IS OUT
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.
Union Declares Strike against Iron
Leagae-EfectiUe To-day.

sam Parks. who elected walking dele
gate of the Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union.
Local No > last March, by a bigger majority
than any OF the three other such officers; who
ruled the union-amost the building trades-and
who VS. sentenced yesterday to two years and
three months In Sing Sing on his second con-
vction for extortlon, is longer a member Of
the union. II accepted his resignation last
night. and only one man out of sixteen hundred
asked that Parks be kept on the payroll. That
man was hooted and jeered.
The union also declared general strike. to
go into effect this morning. against the Iron
League. The strike may become international.
Parks resigned yesterday The union met in
Maennerchor Hall, and those who were to de-
eide the resignation were Parks's old cronies.
Frank Buchanan, president Of the international
association. was present. William Green. the
local president was in the chair.
The members were anxious to have the Parks
business over with. Whether the man who sup
ported Parks did not want to be known or not
could not be ascertained. but no one could find
out after the meeting who he was. He as
soon as the question was put and backed up his
old friend warmly. He protested against accept
ing the resignation of a man who had done so
much for labor. especially at such a crisis. They
/ heard him with laughter and sneers The resig
nation almost unanimously accepted. Then
the delegates cheered themselves Tor some sec
onds.
Frank Buchanan then reported on the meeting
of the international committee with the board OF
governors of the Building Trades Employers
Association He said the board had declared
that no agreement could be reached unless the
members of the new New-York Housesmiths
and Bridgemen's Union should be received back
into the old union as a whole. Buchanan said
that the committee could not do that, and pro-
posed that the members of the new union who
had been members of the old, of which there are
about five hundred. should be received back and
all the others should be subjected to an impair
/ tial examination as to their worthness. He said
the board of governors turned him down."
A member jumped up and shouted that if the
board of governors took such high hand, the
union should strike. He put his words in the
form of a motion and in jffy it had passed
1t was directed against the Iron League, and a
strike will be on this morning all Iron
League work in and around this city. IL may
not affect more than thousand men to-day.
but the union Will watch every building on
which its men have been working, and Will
have them all out. The walking delegate will
be supreme this morning in iron building work
The housesmiths expect the aid OF all iron
workers in the country, and the strike may
become International if agreement is not
reached soon.
petition was received yesterday from
/ three hundred Brooklyn members of the union
asking for the expulsion Of Timothy Mccarthy,
the colleague OF Parks, under indictment.
This did not up at all. 1t was said the
expulsion not formally -quested.
After the meeting, Buchanan said the inter
national committee was willing TO sign the arbi-
tration plan the sis of a trade agree
ment, preliminary to a compromise, but
the board of governors refused. buchanan
added: I'VE are going to strike now and
there will be no work on any Iron League job
The international is upholding the local and
the strike will so on tomorrow morning"