New-York tribune., 1903-05-07
ALL BUILDING MAY STOP.
Will ThrozC One Hundred
Thousand Men Ont of Work.

Thousand Men Ont OF " ORR.
A general shutdown in the yards of building
material dealers and lumber dealers in this city
and its vicinity went into effect yesterday on
account Of the demands of the Team Drivers
Union and the Building Material Drivers Union
The Team Drivers Union has only recently
been organized, and demands not only new
wage scale. but that every truck delivering lulh-
her and building material shall have a union
driver. Its members are now on strike Inc
owners of the brick plants are ready to CO.
operate with the two Organiza tions Of employers
in opposng the further encroachments of the
unions on the ground that they would eventu-
ally make building Improbable The shutdown
forestalIs an impending strike of building ma
terial handlers.
The Building Material Dealers Association
held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the
Building Materials Exchange, NO II Broao"dS'
and passed a resolution TO continue the smut
down until the demands Of the unions are WITH
drawn A meeting of the Lumber Dealers AS
sociation was held at the same time al NO 10
Broadway a similar resolution was aoop'eu'
I1oIagstes from each of the organizations at
tended each meeting. as we'll as delegates llolil
the brick manufacturers, who say the output OF
iioL will have to be curtaiIed until the trouble
is settled.
statement was issued yesterday by oecre-
tarv C-rary. of the Lumber Dealers Assoclatloh'
II = he saws that the United Board OF Bulio-
ing Trades made a demand last ThursdaE Oh
five lumber yards that they employ ohly uhoi
a;,-are grant the ten-hour workday and pay
50 81 to SO a day according TO the NUMBER Oh
hnrses driven Mr. Crary continues:
1-non the five wards refusing TO accede 70 the
sbope demand their drivers stopped work. IN @ CTn-
sequence OF which these Xards ~els s+apndStITI
To
the United Board OF Buldins - 1rofect our en-
sorbed by competing yards ana 70 7rioD ndt
TInIsee who are not members OF the union, lhui
Yidual yards in the metropontah oor - i,,n6er for
cided 70 stop making deuVeIlSS del5s ~ Va1hs+tan
buiIding purposes in the boroughs Oh Nl3AN' l"-
ana "a the Fned Board Building Trades has maze
similar demand on the T nrlcf fo GET contro Of local
+ion thereby to control hot Oy1t Ony ..Io
nsportato but also the in the meIropSItJn pI
5ier;cf OF building material, sucn dS iuii4Ael' ~
stone steel and iron girders. e Of wards ex-
rsssed to employers any dlssat!sIacti9n " tban
Yaiiing conditions or made any oelaiiuS u
The following brick and building material
dealers are among those that have smut oo"h
t,.at~ 1-ards. Candee & Smith. Twenty-sixth-st
and East River; John c. Philbrick' Nlnety-seN-
entb-st. and East River; William H Schmoh'
17our+aenth-st. and East River; Empire Brick
and snnnIv Company. Forty-seventh-st. and
1-s+ River Clifford L Miller, Long Island CITY.
and John Bell, jr- One-hundred-ano-thlr'S lr'S
eighth-st and the Harlem River
The following lumber. firms were reported
Yesterday as having granted the demands OF 'he
drivers and are also expected TO grant lhe
demands of the Building Material Handlers
Union, which are 81 day and eight hours'
The Yellow Pine Company, which mas yaFoS III
New-York, Hoboken and Long lsiaho Clty'
F4avens company, Fifty-sixth-st. and Eleventh
ave: Dowd Lumber Company. Sighteenth-st-
and Avenue A; Carol Box and Lumber Com
nerv Fighteenth-st. and East River: East
River Mill and Lumber Company Nlnety-hrst-
St Ninety-second-st- and East River 1000
About 75O building material drivers ana 3,-S
team drivers are affected by the shutdown.
which Will in q day two II is said, throw
one hundred thousand persons 1ale IN lne ,I L.
ing trades by stopping all building IL VIII stop
work on over a dozen schools In Manhattan
and The Bronx. not to speak OF broohlSh anu
The principaI objection. It is said. is to the
demands of the Team Drivers Union Wn1cn
insists that only wagons with the union marx
ha recoenized The employers were willing 10
nav the wages demanded. but not TO pledge
themselves to use only union trucks ana wa
gons. .., ,z
yesterday:
'The labor unions acting very foolishly'
ss they are forcing up the cost OF buildings 10
a point where II will not pay to undertake con-
tracts The brick manufacturers VIII nave 10
curtail the output of brick until the shutdown
ends 1t will last until the demands are with
drawn All building work in the Borougns OF
Manhattan and The Bronx viii be stopped IN
a few days. and this terrible slNudtloI mas . oeeL
forced on the Employers. who want 10 protect
themselves and the public
A Hutton Of the Hutton Building Material
Companv Rondout n. Y. said that In all
twenty building material yards in New-York
and It's vicinity would be affected by the shut
down. The unions were taking advantage OF
prosperous times to run their demands up 10
the breaking point
Michael Rogan and James F. Geelan. dele
gates of the United Building Material Drivers,
attended Yesterdays meeting of the Board OF
Building Trades and said that they had no
connection with the Team Drivers Union IL
vas not affiliated with the board, and they
blaued the Team Drivers Union for the
trouble The building material handlers de-
mand 81 day and the team drivers demand
- 25 So 50 So Is and So for one, two. three and
four horse teams respectively.