The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-16
EMPLOYERS ORGANIZING.
TO OFFER UNITED RESISTANCE
 TO LABOR UNIONS.
Meeting of Those Interested in tho Building Trades Hold in New York Seven Hundred Present nt One Gathering-statement Issued.-Para- Iysis of the Building Industry Charged to Irresponsible Parties.

kO E.hEAtess New York, May 15.-The first steps towards effecting a general organiza- ton, of employers in, the building trades for the purpose of offering unit ed resistance to the demands of the la- bor unions, were taken tonight at meetings held in Manhattan and Brooklyn. At the meeting in Manhat- tan 700 employers were present and the throng was so great that overflow meetings were held. Addresses were made by Charles H. Eid1itz, A. w.
 Burritt of Bridgeport, president of the Interstate Building and Contractors and Masons' associations, and Charles M. Wills and Otto M., Eidlitz. The meeting was in private and at it's close the following statement was giv- en out as the sentiment of the various speakers: t
 "The complete paralysis of the build ing industry has been brought about by irresponsible combinations acting through tyrannical board of walk ing delegates.
 Tt is time that the decent and order loving mechanic asserts himself and defies the arbitrary demagogue who ties his hands and drowns his voice. "The delegate is parasite on the body polite to be exterminated.
 ''It was pointed out that this is not a question of wages or hours. but a question of whether the irresponsible bodies of men are to be permitted to
 conduct the business of the employer and in so doing make it impossible for
 him to execute his contracts and to
 discharge the obligations and respon-
 abilities which he assumes and to which the courts of the law bind him.
 "The extremes to which the unions have resorted and the manner in which they have repeatedly broken contracts with their employers have alienated from them the sympathy of the public. '"The speakers also called upon the police and the magistrates to perform
 their duties unf1inchingly, The district attorney was called on to use the na-
 chinery at his command and prosecute with all severity the blackmailers which this pernicious system has fos-
 tered, and thus to show to the men
 how they are misrepresented and their confidence betrayed"
 A resolution was adopted to the effect that the board of governors arrange for meeting of the executive committee of various employers associations of the building trades to provide ways and means for the creation of central body of employers.
 This committee will be called together next Tuesday. Telegrams were receiv- ed from similar committees in Chica- go, St. Louis. Pittsburg. Philadelphia, Boston and Washington.
 In Brooklyn 100 employers met and formed the Employers League of the Borough of Brooklyn It was resolv- ed to permit no interference with busi- ness by any individuals or organizations and that no walking delegates should be permitted to enter any shop during working hours. Officers were elected and a board Of twenty trustees to form a plan of campaign to enforce the princi- pies of the organizations and devise means to combat the labor unions.
 A special meeting of the conciliation committee of the Civic Federation was held for the purpose of conferring with representatives of various labor unions in the city in regard to the pending troubles. It was said after the meeting that the differences between the subway workers end the contractors had not been discussed and that the organiza- ton will not interfere further in the matter. j.