The sun., 1903-04-14
UNIONS STOP GOOD BUSINESS.
A. NEW INSTANCE or TYRANNY,
WHICH CUTS OFF TELEPHONES.

The Telephone Men Dent Care 10 he Union
Ized, 80 Not . Wire Can BE struns IN
New Building TIL the Last Of the
Union Builder ID Out--No Help for H..
As the result Of the efforts Of certain
labor unions TO force the men In the CON-
struction department OF the New York
Telephone Company into union, a number
OF business men in this city. whose trade
almost entirely depends on their telephone
service, are without that service to-day
and will be for some months. One OF the
sufferers Ia Edwin c. Lockwood. a printer
and statoner at ~ Pearl street
Mr.. Lockwood, rs well as q number OF
other men in the same nsighborhood' IL
without telephone service sinply because
the men OF the building tradee who are
employed on the new Orient buiihog. at
the southeast corner Of Pearl and Wall
streets, refuse 70 allow any OF the nom
union telephone men to enter that ouiio'ng
for the purpose OF stringing wires until
they are out OF II and the building has been
turned over TO its owners. o."
Mr.. Lockwood was formerly at y Beaver
street, where he had been for Rood
many years. He moved to ia Pearl street I.
which IL two doors from the Orient
building, early last month, and several
weeks before moving notified the tele-
phone company to change his telephone
10 his new quarters. When the company
started TO string wires from It's Wall street
trunk line through the new Orient build
ing and thence to Mr.. Lockwoods store
it's workmen were stopped by q walking
delegate, who said they could not enter
the crient building.
The Fuller Construction Company. which
il erecting the Orient building, was appealed
to. The officers OF the company said they
had no personal objection TO the wires
being taken through the building and 50
did the owners. But the delegates OF the
unions whose men are finishing the build,
ing announced that strike would he ordered
at once II the telephone companys work.
men were allowed In the building TO do any
work. They said. furthermore. that II
any wires were put In by the non-unioh
telephone men while they were on SIN"
work would not be resumed at all untii
these wires had been taken out again. This
was lust by way Of notice to the Fuller
company that there was no use IN trying
to put the wires in during any small disagree.
ment II might have with the union men OF
the building trades.
TO It's owners by the Fuller company for
month at least and II may be two months
before the last OF the union men are out OF
1t. Meanwhile Mr.. Lockwood viii have 70
go without a telephone and NO VIII arge
humber OF tenants who have already moved
into the lower floors of the Orient building,
which have been completed.
Mr. Lockwood's business II mainly done
over the telephone, and the lack OF the ser
vice Is working him great INJURY ne
Without a telephone my business is in
a very bad way The majority OF my
customers I do not zee in this store once
wear. They have no time to come 10 me,
so they always telephone 70 me when they
have an order to give and or one Si my
men 20 10 them. / am In no way TO piaine
because the telephone men choose to be
non-unon men, and yet ! and others IN
the Same predicament are the only suner-
ers. The Fuller people Would like to help
me, but they tell me that II they daren 70
defy the unions genera af stLke on at on nnc. Va
1T Is the most outrageous bit OF labor
union tyranny have heard Of; yeo'i am
4 representative Of the telephone COM
pany said yesterday that good many
people in New York were Just now IN TIE
same predicament az Mr. LocA""ou o
.Tbe men i'm our construction department
are our men and they don't want to belong
to any union. The trouble that has come
TO a head now began three years ago. when
these labor union fellows began to try
and force our men to join them. When
the men declined to listen TO them they
Threatened all sorts OF thing.
when the Stock Exchange was nearing
completion tho unions declared that we
must put the telephone In with union men
or they wouldn't be put in AT all. Inc re.
suit was that not q telephone can be put
In the new Stock Exchange until the ast
union man hs finished his work and leit II.
All over this city where new buiidin q
are In course Of construction we are harine 9
! this trouble. Unless the telephones are
already in we cannot get them in. In the
| Orient building the business OF a gea,
| many men is partly at standstill because
| they ca mot get telephones.
sfn the case OF Mr.. Lockwood We couiu
| dig up the streets for half block az me
cost Of 81, COO or more, but that expense
! we are not warranted IN undergoing, when
/ as soon az the building IL completed. We
can run the wires through for practhany
nothing. II Is great inconvenience 70
our subscribers and to VA TO have this thing
| 90 on this way, but we do not feel thst
we would I've justified 10 yielding TO such
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