The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-26
ARNHEIM
Broadway & 9th Street
S7RUCKASLAST BEAM WENT UP
WORK ON MIG FACTORY STOPPED
ron 4 TRIVIAL CAUSE.
Standard Rock Candy Go. Left Homeless
Because One Union Dtsapproyes OF
Another Union - strike Ordered
Just when II Would Prevent All Work.

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Another Union - strike Orderes
Just when II Would Prevent All Work
| The structural iron workers who ar,
putting up the steel frame of the big factory
being built at AS to 457 West Thirty-frs
street for the Standard Rock Candy Com
pcny quit work yesterday morning just
8s the ! st beam Of the ground floor wei
! rev dy to be swung into place.
The Standsrd Rock Candy Company
/ stt rted in November L st to build mode
Il Glory on the seven lots In West Thirty.
: first street. They have to give up Their
I premises in Brooklyn at Bedford avenue
and North Twelfth street, the .slte Of which
. WIS condemned by the city as part of a
/ new park.
There was plenty Of time before the
move would be necessary and the plans Of
the new building were perfected Ieisurely
when a fire destroyed the company's Brook
lyn plant on the 27th OF December.
The company was left high and dry with
thousands of dollars worth OF orders on
its hands and no means Of turning the
stun out. The contractor on the promise
: Of a big bonus estimated that he could
complete the new building by the list OF
June with premium Of $3.50 day IL the
roof was on before that date.
Everything went along smoothly until
yester day morning and p. j. Carlin. the
contractor. looked forward to bonus Of
bet ween four and five thousand dollars.
Since last Thursday there has been an
extra hustle among the workmen to make
up for the lay in the shipment Of some
steel floor beams which wen. nine days in
transit from Passaic, n. J.
These beams were the floor Orders VI
the shipping court, in the centre OF the
building. and the masons and carpenters
had finished the wings. Of the building to
the first floor level, as high as they dared
gounlil the walls Of the cenlr court were up.
This centre court is the only part of the
building In which STEEL is used and Is the
key to the entire structure.
Yesterday morning at o'clock the work.
men, In anticipation OF the laying OF the
last beam on the first floor Of the court, were
waiting TO start in again on the masonry.
The members OF the firm were on hand
TO see the work begun.
just as the derrick men were starting
to raise the girder red whiskered individual
sauntered in from the street and held up
his hand. Every ironworSer gathered
up his tools and quit work.
The red whiskered man announced him.
self as the business agent of the ironwork-
do another stroke Of work until the con-
tractor get rid Of the particular brand Of
hodcarriers employed and hired men
belonging to the union OF which he APP
proven.
One Of the firm asked that the men be
permitted to finish laying the last beam
explaining the situation the company was
In and pointing out that the erection Of
another story all around the building might
be commenced II the strike were only de-
layed fifteen minutes. The business agent
wouldn't hear Of 1t nor would he hear Of
any compromise. and the contractors and
the representatives OF the Standard Rock
Candy Company had the pleasure Of seeing
the iron workers file out leaving the work
at a stand-still.
The bricklayers and carpenters. cannot
be counted Oh to work with hodcarricrs
who belong TO the wrong union, and there
seems TO be no way out Of the difiiculty.
The firm wanted the contractor to hire
q couple OF blacksmiths and have the beam
rive.ed In place, but the contractor ex-
planned that II he did that he d lose all his
bricklayers and carpenters and be forced
to rip Il out again before he could get an
ironworker to do any work on the upper
hoors.
Meanwhile the Standard Rock Candy
Company II losine trade and customers
every day and the contractor sees his bonus
disappearing.