The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-06
NEW UNION OF HOUSESMIYHS.
CHARTERED BY KNIGHTS or La
nor (NAYES FACTFON.
HOuseshOrers Who Are Willing 10 work
Also Organize, and Oiher Trades VIII
FOllOw--Fuller 90. Says IL APP
proves the Arbitration Agreement.

HOmSeahOrers VINO Are WuHnk 10 WOFn
Also Organize. and Other Trades VIII
Follow--Fuller 90. Says II Ap
proves the Arbitration Agreement
The General Executive Board of the
Knights of Labor held conference yester-
day with various building contractors at
the headquarters OF the Employers Asso"
citation, 1928 Broadway, regarding the
furnishing of men under the arbitration
agreement. The general officers have es-
tablished headquarters AZ the Broadway
Central Hotel
The Knights say they can supply all the
men needed in the building trades, and the
employers will give them the chance.
In the meantime, the Housesmiths' Union
of New York has been formed and has re-
ceived a charter from the Knights The
new Houseshorers and Pile Drivers Union
has also got charter, and the Knights are
organizing local assemblies of the other
trades.
The members of the Simon Burns fac
ton of the Knights of Labor, which is
opposed to General Master Workman
Hayes and his followers, are much aroused
Each side asserts that its men are the only
genuine Knights. Besides being recog-
nized by the employers here, the Hayes
faction, however. has the books and prop
erty of the order and holds that the courts
have decided in its favor,
Whether the unions which have been eS-
PEELED from the Board of Building Trades
will work with the newly organized knights
is not yet known. James j. DAILY Of the
Tile Layers Union, which has signed the
arbitration agreement, said yesterday that
the unions would not stand for anything
that Hayes did.
At Yesterday, meeting Of The old Board
OF Building Trades, Thomas Rock. master
workman of the Burns faction of District
Assembly 40. formally repudiated the
Hayes men and declared Simon Burns TO be
the real Master Workman
Al the headquarters of the employers
association, Chairman Prince of the Press
Committee would not talk of the confer
cnccs with the Knights OF Labor. That
matter, he said. was in the hands Of the
Executive COMMITTEES.
More men are returning TO work daily,
however" he said. an a week we will
have all the iron workers we need new
union OF pipe calkers and feters, which
has 100 members has been formed, and it's
members are at work. Most oil them have
come over from the Salamander Associa-
ton Of Pipe and Boiler FeIters. which had
$50 members.
This letter has been received by the Iron
League from the George A. Fuller COM
pany:
So far as our company * concern ed. We
have an agreement with the HOusesmlths
and Brdgemcn's Union. which has been
satisfactory to us. and under which We have
been working since the lat OF May. Never
theless, | am unable to understand why the
Housesmths and Bridgrnen, = Union IS not
ready to accept the plan Of arbitration which
has been submitted TO them by tn" employ
ers' association. and our company FEELS
earnestly DESTROYS not only on account of
the mechanics who are members Of that
union but on account OF the employers and
III" building trades industries in general.
that that union. as we'll az the other unions.
should promptly accept the Joint arbitration
agreement. II would seem 20 m" that if II
were accepted the air would Immediately
be cleared and the members of the employ
ers' association. as well as ourselves and
all the mechanics employed by your assocln-
ton and by our company, would he in a better
p,n han