New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-02
ALL TIRED OF THE FIGHT.
II Firm Reported to Haze Left the
Employers association.

Both employers and employees were making
strenuous efforts. but in different directions YES
terday TO devise ways and means OF bringing abouk
an end of the building shutdown Both sides adj
nit they tired Of II. The first general melting
of the Building Trades Employers Association
since 1t became permanently organized. took place
yesterday afternoon at the Building Trades Club
No LIZ Broadway. to hear suggestions from men,
oers Charles l. Eidlitz presided. and about eight
hundred and fifty members were present Otto NJ
Eidlitz chairman of the board of governors said
that the unions would finally come around TO the
Idea that adoption Of the plan OF arbitration offered
70 them by the association was the best thing for
them.
When they cease to be fooled bv the watkins,
delegates and think for themselves" he said they
viii accept the plan That will not be long as
they are bound TO consider the plan without the
walking delegates doing their thinking"
Mr.. Eidltz added that the action of tie George
A Fuller Company would not appreciabIy affect
the situation. The Fuller Company he said en-
pioyed only about 1 per cent Of the men employed
in the city.
Lewis Harding OF the Master Carpenters Asso-
citation. who is the leader Of the radical wing OF
the association offered resolutions giving the
unions until July to accept the plan OF arbitra-
ton The resolutions provided that IL the unions
did not then accept the plan the employers should
at once make individual agreements based on their
plan with their employees. union or non-union and
put them to work at once.
A hot debate followed. The conserva tive mem
oers managed to stop the passage Of the resclu-
tons. and they referred 10 the Board Of
Governors with power TO put them into effect when
/ ii considered 1t expedent to do so
A meeting Of the Board OF Building Trades was
held yesterday afternoon at Brevoort Hail. al
which 1t was reported that the Keasbey & Matt
son Company, asbestos manufacturers, had left
4 the Employers Association and signed an agree
ment with the SsIamander Association Of Pipe and
Boiler Coverers, under which the men had returned
1 to work w. A Farley, secretary Of the board
/ said that this agreement under the plan pro
| posed by the George A Fuller Company.
/ knowledge Of the resignation OF the firm was
/ denied at the headquarters of the employers as
ISOLATION. A member OF the association said he die
not believe the firm had left the association, but
/ President Mullaney, of the Salamander AssoCia
! uon said that DR.. Madison. the head OF the firm
/ was in Europe when the firm joined the associa
/ ton When he returned he insisted that the dru
/ should resign from the association.
More strikes were ordered yesterday by the Boar
| of Building Trades against the plan of the en-
ployerS association Among the buildings affected
/ were the Mount Sinai Hospital, the Clarke hous.
! on Fifth-ave, and two houses in Ninety-frst-st-
1 between Madison and Fifth ayes a strike Will b.
ordered to-day at the home OF Charles NJ
, Schwab, in Riverside Drive.
/ The plan of the Cancellation committee OF III
| New-York Civic Federation Will be put into effeC
/ tomorrow, when there will be a meeting OF com
mittees OF three representing about fifteen or SIX
teen unions and the board of governors of IN
Building Trades Employers Association. The plal
IS to bring the employers and the committees to
I gether in the hope that some basis Of settlement
can be reached.