The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-28
BIGGER BUILDING FIGHT DUE.
UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS SAY
THIS WILL BE DECISIVE.
Trouble started by the StOnecutters TO
BE Handled by the Employers To-day
"Without Gloves" President Eidlitz
says-- Fresh shutdown Expected.

The new struggle in the building trades
precipitated by the victory OF Sam Parks
In the Kansas City convention OF his union
and the changing attitude OF the unions
to the employers associations is to be a
fight to a finish. 80 employers and union
men said yesterday. President Charles
l.. Eidlitz of the Employers Association
said that the employers were going to keep
up their end of the fight.
1T is now up to the unions, which want
peace, to take up the struggle with US, II
they want to preserve their own independ-
enoe" he continued. IF the unions want
to redeem organized labor and bring build
ing conditions around to what they were
before this trouble began they must take
hold themselves and fight such men as
Parks There seems to have been an idea
emanating from the enemies Of the en-
ployers who are also just as much the enc
mics OF organized labor, that we have given
up. What mistake that is will be seen.
THE unions have been submitting to
the domination Of men like Parks and
merely grumbling when they should have
taken firm hold Of the situation. Unions
have signed the arbitration plan and then
sagged back, waiting to see what was
going to turn up. Instead OF this they
should have taken hold for themselves
and fought for the advantages they would
have through the arbitration agreement.
Undoubtedly great deal Of capital
would be held back from building opera
tons, Mr.. Eidlitz said.
But, he continued, mo matter how long
it lasts. We will keep up the fight until the
conditions are such as to enable us to carry
out contracts with some degree Of GER
tainty.'
The main question to be discussed
by his associations board of governors
he said, will be the complications caused
by the attitude of the journeyman stone
cutters, who are preventing the bricklayers
from working by refusing to build the
stone facings on large buildings for the
brickwork. I'VE will handle this matter
without Gloves he said
Members of unions in the Board Of Build
ing Trades said that their unions we're
their employers, and they expected one
as soon as Sam Parks got back here. Dele
gate Harris Of Local Al of the Iron Workers
brought up the building troubles at the
meeting OF the Central Federated Union.
Local A represents the inside workers.
A number OF it's members have gone over
into the new Housesmiths' Union Of New
York, organized by the employers.
These men have been induced to 60 into
this union in order to disrupt Local 2
(Parks's union], which Buchanan attempted
to suspend but failed, said Harris. Most
Of these men have been doing outside work
against their will. Now they want to get
back int Local Al. We are sorry they were
compelled to join the new union and feel
inclined to take them back"
Talking about Parks later, he said: As
long as Parks is for the union am with him.
II he is in the business for his own vain
glory I am not with him. But I am with
him heart and soul as long as he makes a
strong fight against the arbitration agree
ment.'
Delegate Paulitsch OF the Amalgamated
Sheet Metal Workers expressed the hope
that a shutdown in building would be de-
, clared over again. ..--...-
the tighter the better" he said. sWe
will then put up the stinest fght the en-
ployers have ever had on their hands. We
have learned something since the fight
began and we are just beginning to learn
how to fight.