New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-13
ITALIANS THREATEN VIOLENCE
BUT ARMED POLICE WILL BE MASSED TO PROTECT
SUBWAY WORKERS.
Mass Meeting of Employers Called for FrdayThey Desire to Face
Labor Unions zcith Compact Organization
INVITATIONS TO 5000.
4 Hundred Thousand Men Thro1cn
Ont of Em pI0yment


The Generalization of building operations in
this city on account Of the strike had become so
serious yesterday that the directors of the Build
ing Trades Association sent out a call for a
big meeting of employers to be held on Friday
evening at the rooms of the association IN the
Townsend Building, Broadway and twenty
ffth-st The declared object of the meeting Is
TO devise some remedy for the strike conditions.
A complete organization of the employers In
the building trades to resist demands OF the
unions is expected to be the result Of the meet
ing.
From the rooms of the association last even
ing were sent out about three thousand invita-
tions to the meeting on Friday evening. The
invitation was signed by Warren A. Conoyer,
president, and William X Fertig, secretary and
treasurer of the association, and was as follows;
The time has arrived when employers of labor
in the building trades are facing serious situa-
ton and a meeting will be held on Friday, May
No. lis BroadN ay, for The purpose Of deternin-
Ing tns intoieTable Conditions You are earnestly
requested to be present
Charles L. Eidlitz and Leonard K. Prince,
first and second vice presidents OF the associa-
tion attended the meeting Of the directors at
2;30 p, M. yesterday. when the decision was
made TO call the meeting. Other directors OF
the association are Stephen NJ Wright, Ronald
George S. Holmes, James Curran, Vincent c.
King John Little Francis E. Howland, Hugh
Getty F. B. Tuttle Henry W. Miller and WILL
lam T. Ritch. They all agreed that the tie UP
of building operations in the city would be COM
plete in few days If the strike continued 1t
was high time. they said. that the employers In
the building trades had a compact organization
to deal with the demands of the unions of en-
ployes-
1t is not expected that three thousand en-
ployers Of labor in building operations will re-
spond in person to the invitation. The rooms OF
the association where the meeting Is to be held
will hold only about four hundred men at one
time. It Is expected, however, that there Will
he q representative gathering Of the employers
and that plans will be formed for an orsaniza-
ton OF all the employers in building operations
in the city. The men who were responsible for
calling the meeting said yesterday that they
could not tell what the plans Of the meeting
would be- but OF the first steps in the way
of coping with the strike situation would be the
formation of a powerful organization of the en-
ployers.
The Iron League. which is composed of most
Of the employers Of fronworkers in the city, and
delegates from the Architectural Iron Manufact-
urers' Association, and the Wire Manufacturers
Association held meeting yesterday afternoon
In ParIor DR. Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel to dis
cuss the strike of the architectural iron"orkers
for increased pay. 1t was said that about nVe
thousand OF the ironworkers employed IN SHOPS
had Joined in the strike. ]. M. Cornell presided
at the meeting which was behind closed doors.
C. NJ. Cheney who was secretary of the meet
ing, said:
"a strike committee was formed. and resolu-
tions were passed for unanimous resistance "
the strike of the ironworkers
sherlock Davis who is a member of the
labor committee of the Lumber Trade Assocla-
ton said yesterday that in a few days there
would be a compact organization OF empowers
TO oppose the demands Of the unions he aooeo'
We are all tired the persistent spirit OF 1 the
10 ANYTHING for a time and then be sure OF our
way than to along under the ~ arb 2l
trafe in this whole fight. is simply question
II oynr TO the unions and most had rather
quit business permanently than TO yieio 10 uiiioH-
ISM
It was estimated yesterday that the shutdown
in the yards of the Lumber and Building Ma
terial Dealers associations. the strike OF the
teamsters and the strike of the ironworkers had
thrown at least one hundred thousand men out
of employment temporarily because or the stop
page of building operations AS mateTlais were
used up in buildings in process or CONSTRUCTOR
the work had to stop. although masons' ouIsiue
ironworkers carpenters and painters were VIII
ing work, because no more ifialeiiai9 oo
be obtained at the buildings Several large
builders said their work was at stanosuh
One of the large dealers in building ma'eriais
said:
1--WE have corralled all the brick, sand ana
lime and the lumber men nave cohtoi Vi e
10th industry No structural steel is being sup
,,s a.. NON, buildings What can any builder
do in such circumstances? The tieup seems ms
complete now. Men of few IapoI uilioris S ~
kean;nr rom employment many thousands ds, OF
men who belong to other unions In the ouiioihs
trades
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THIS is THE FASTEST TRAIN
So ,h. distance the world has ever seen. saves
a. a., het ween the East and the West Inc NC"