New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
10 RESUME WORK TO-DAY
TEN UNIONS ACCEPT PLAN
Thirty Thousand Workmen En-
pected To Be Busy by Monday.

About fifteen thousand men employed by
members Of the Building Trades Employers AS
ISOLATION viii be put TO work to-day and Mon
day on various buildings throughout the city.
This will be the first break in the shutdown
that has stopped practically all building work
since May 10 The resumption of work will be
the result of the acceptance of the amended
plan Of arbitration OF the Building Trades En-
ployers' Association by ten unions, six of which
are in the Board Of Building Trades. and all of
which have sent letters of acceptance over their
seals. In addition a number of the unions have
accepted the George A. Fuller plan. and fifteen
thousand more men. employed by the Fuller
company. are expected to be at work on Mon
day.
A general meeting of the Employers Associa-
ton was held yesterday afternoon in the Town
send Building. No. LIB Broadway, where a re-
port from the board Of governors of the EN-
ployers' Association as to the result of the con-
ference on Thursday was made After the
meeting William K Hertig, secretary of the as
SoclatIon. announced that circulars had been
sent TO nine unions which had accepted the ar
bitration agreement, telling them to send their
members TO work at their old jobs at once The
following the nine unions:
Amalgamated Painters and Decorators of
New-York and vicinity.
Local Union, No 81, of the Brotherhood of
America
Local No A. of the United Upholsterers' Un-
ion. of New-York
Mosaic Workers Association
United Cement Masons' Union, No. J. of
Greater New-York.
Modellers' League of America
Mosaic and Encaustic Tile Layers Union, Lo-
cal No 80
Hexagon Labor Club. of the Tile Layers Help
ers, Local No %.
Amalgamated Woodworkers' International
Union
In addition to these. the Electrical Workers
Union later accepted the arbitration agreement
and last evening Secretary Fertig, of the En-
ployers' Association. said that five more unions
had sent letters accepting the arbitration plan
OF the employers association of their respective
trades. These viii be turned over for action to
the board Of governors to-day.
For day or two" continued Secretary Fer
tig. the board of governors will meet daily,
and as each union accepts the plan win notify
IL TO send its members to work.
Asked what would be done regarding the
unions that rejected the plan, he said that he
believed they would have to fall in line. It was
learned later that some of the unions which
have refused the associations plan have mem
bers working under the Fuller plan.
The Board Of Building Trades had no particu-
lar programme at its meeting yesterday, as IL is
TO consider at its meeting next Monday whether
or not it viii expel the unions that have ac-
cepted the arbitration agreement of the en-
ployers' association. After the meeting yester-
day Acting Secretary Fyfe. of the board, said
that five unions in the board had signed the
agreement and that twenty mine had either re-
fused TO sign it or were the fence. No action
could be taken by the board until Monday.
Merwyn Pratt, delegate Of the Amalgamated
Sheet Metal Workers Union. said that his
cause IL confcted with agreement the union
already had with the employers.