The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-16
UNION LABOR'S UNREST
COURTS ARE APPEALED TO BY Den.
YER TRANSFER men.
End Of a Chicago Strike-Disturb.
ances on the New York Sub.
way-0ther Strike News.

NEW YORK, May 15.-First steps to-
ward effecting a general organization OF
employers In the building trade for the
purpose OF Offering united resistance to
the demands OF the labor unions were taken
tonight at meetings in Manhattan and
Brooklyn The meeting in Manhattan was
held at the Building Trade Club, 7o0 MEM
bers being present, and the throng being
SO great that overflow meetings were held
in the various assembly rooms of the club.
The meeting was in private and at its
close the following statement was given
out as the sentiment of the various speak
ers:
1.-The complete paralysis of the building
industry has been brought about by ire
sponsibie combinations. acting through
tyrannical board OF walking delegates or
business agents. and this situation de-
mands prompt and energetic action by all
good citizens who have the welfare of our
great city at heart. 1t is time that the
decent and order-loving mechanic asserts
himself and defes the arbitrary demagogue
who ties his hands and browns his voice.
'The delegate Is a parasite on the body
polite to be exterminated..
This Is not a question of wages or hours,
but a question Of whether irresponsible
bodies Of men ere to be permitted TO con-
duct the business Of the employer. and in SO
doing make IL impossible for him to exc
cute his contracts and to discharge the OBJ
legations and responsibilities which he
sumes, and to which the courts and the
law OF the land bind him.
"The extremes to which the unions have
reSorted and the manner in which they
tave repeatedly broken contracts with their
employers have alienated from them the
sympathy of the public.
s'The speakers tonight called on the po-
lice and the magistrates to perform their
duties unf1inchingly. They pointed out the
failure OF justice in the past to punish vio-
lenceto the brutality of assaults, the dam
age to property and the murders commit
ted In the name OF labor, which have gone
unpublished. They asked that political am
bition should not be permitted to pervert
justice. The district attorney was called
on to use the machinery at his command.
and to prosecute with all severity the
blackmailers which this pernicious system
has fostered, and thus to show to the men
how they are misrepresented and betrayed
''The system calls for repressive meas
ures. The public now looks to the en-
ployers to take the initiative and to use
every lawful method to destroy the Goiah,
whom lack of opposition has so ambold-
ened that he throttles this great city with
out hesitation and without compunction"
The following resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, The present condition of the
building industries make IL imperative that
employers shall be made more secure I'm the
conduct OF their business, workmen more
secure from interference with their oppor-
tLnity to work, and the public generally
more secure from interruption to business
resulting from strikes or lockouts in the
Resolved, That the board of governors
of the Building Trades Association arrange
at once for a meeting OF the executive
committees OF various Employers Asso-
Citations of the building trade to provide
ways and means for the creation of a
central body OF employers"
This committee will be called together
on Tuesday. kilograms were received from
similar committees in Chicago, st. Louis,
Pittsburg. Philadelphia, Boston and Wash
In brooklyn one hundred employers met
and formed the Employers League of the
Borough of Brooklyn 1t was resolved TO
permit no interference with business by
any individuals or organizations. and that
no walking delegates would be permitted
to enter any shop during working hours.
Officers were elected and board OF twenty
campaign TO enforce the principles of the
organization and TO devise means to COM
bat the labor unions.
specfal session of the conciliation COM
mittee OF the local Civic Federation was
held for the purpose, IL was understood, of
comforting with representatives of various
labor organizations in the city in regard
TO pending troubles. Ii was said after
the meeting that the differences between
the subway workers and the contractors
had not been discussed and that the or
ganization would not interfere In the mat