New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-15
REBEL AGAINST PARKS.
NEW UNION Is FORMING.
Mem Want Complete Change
Parks for International Head.

Notwithstanding the assertion OF Sam Parks
that he had put that building on the bum when
he ordered the strike OF members OF his union on
the Metropolitan Life on Saturday. the
strike to go into effect yesterday morning, not a
-housesmith stayed away yesterday morning Henry
Clay, the colored Waterman. was still on guard,
and If Parks had appeared he would have failed to
get into the building he did on Saturday
Though the members OF the Housesmiths and
Bridgemens Union did strike. there was a
strike Of joJrneymen stoEecutters on the building
which part OF a general strike against the
journeymen stonesetters because their union
signed the arbitration agreement OF the Employers
Association
committee of the Board OF Building Trades
called again Vice-President Mcconnell, OF the
George A. Fuller Company yesterday to urge him
to get Richey. Brown & Donald to discharge MEM
bers of the Houscsmiths Union of New-York
employed by them the Butterick Building Mr.
Mcconnell declined to interfere.
Parks particularly anxious TO have the
trouble at the Butterick Building Settled but the
men who went strike refused to return TO work
when he ordered them back
More trouble is in store for Parks and his bench
men. 1t developed yesterday. from rebellion among
members of his union against his methods.
The first evidence of this was an agitation for a
meeting discuss the situation the meeting TAX
ing place in the Teutonia Assembly Rooms. NO Os
Thrd-ave., Sunday. About one hundred ana
fifty dissatisfied members OF his union attended
under the leadership of Robert z. Neidig, and
formed n temporary organization. out of which II
is hoped by its promoters permanent body, which
Will have for its object the reorganization and
purifying Of the union. will grow. W. Ferguson
was made temporary president. It was arranged
TO call mass meeting OF the housesniths Tor To-
morrow evening in the Teutonia Assembly Rooms.
There a desire expressed that officers OF the
union should hold no office in the new organiza-
ton. Many men in the organization are enurey
disguised with the methods pursued and are de-
termined now that there must be a complete
change.
All the eighty-two foremen who organized on
Saturday night as the American Society Of super
vising Iron Erectors went 10 work yes og ~
be resumed generally on sreat many
Secretary T. C. Mcclure OF me ayenine that
his union working in harmony Win me n lev
organization Of foremen he also Sau tii1t tho
execitive officers OF the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron workers Tor a
having been suspended by President Buchanan for
violating the union rules. the rev union Is hkey
The he Portable Hosting Engineers. who some time
go anna gama ted with the safety engineers mon,
was reported yesterday left the Safety Engineers
and signed the arbitration agreement This leaves
few unions in the old Board of Building IraGes
which is controlled or supposed 10 DC coh'iOiieu
Friends Of Parks here trying 20 boom him
sociation Of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
1 TIa annual convention begins in Kansas City Mon
PnSiidinS Trades the following, purporting TO be
copy of A telegram received from the Housesmiths
Meal ii issue is Parks No Buchanan for We
are with YOU 10 the finish
II is stated that IL Buchanan, who will run for
reelection appears weak canoldate' ms sup
norters will try to for president J. French, a
well known member of the San Francisco House.
Mans unionsts In this city are scared at the
idea Of Parks being made inteTnationaI Paesiaens
They say that this would make industrial peace
practically impossible.