The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-19
BUILDING TIE.UP WON'T LAST.
STATE INQUIRERS REPORT THAT
A SETTLEMENT IS NEAR.

Archit ecturai Ironworkers Accept tho
ARBITRATION Plan and Their Strikers
return to Work Meanwh.le-nie
He,pers' Delegate willing to Get Out.
John Lundrigan, Second Deputy state
Labor Commissioner, and MS ass's!ah''
r. A. Branif, who we're sent mere from
Albany to investigate the troubles III 1he
building trades and to tender their gooo
offices to bring about settiemeht' le'urheo
there yesterday. They reported 70 com-
missioner McMackin that they iouho the
situation better than they mad expected ana
that they had been informed that matters
we're tending toward settiemeht Wnich
would probably meet with the approval OF
aI and end the tie-up In the trade.
L.K. Prince of the Building Trades EN-
movers Association said Of the statements:
These men told us that they simply
rame for information about the trouble.
They did not want to interfere, they said,
but simply wanted to know the details Of
the trouble for a report at Albany. We
gave them the information they asked for,
and they said they did not consider the
situation as serious as they had thought
i, was. They said also that the trouble
light to be adjusted easily
The press committee Of the association
announced yesterday afternoon that the
Inside Architectural Iron Workers had
agreed to accept the associations plan
81 arbitration and that delegates from
The union had been going around among
the members in the shops advising them
TO return to work The committee also
reported that a letter had been received
from the union asking that arbitrators
be named to carry the plan into effect
The Inside Architecture! Iron Workers
Union is a branch OF the International
Association Of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers Samuel Parks is the boss dele
gate OF the Housesmiths' and Bridgemen's
Onion another Of the national associations
locals. This acceptance OF the plan Is
taken as an indication OF the revolt OF the
iron workers against the autocratic rule
At The Office OF j. B. d j. M. Cornell Of
the Iron League II was stated yesterday
that three-fourths Of their men who had been
on strike had asked for reinstatement,
saving that the strike had been ordered
At TIE meeting Of the Building Trades
Section OF the Central Federated Union
this week. it seems, John Cronin. delegate
the arbitration plan along.
agent OF my union, said cronin. "f the
walking delegate is the only bar TO settle
n,ent q the trouble our walking delegates
are willing to get out-at least am
James Fitzgerald OF the Marble Workers
declared that the building trades unions
should stand together. and on his recon-
mendation the plan OF arbitration was
tabled.
The G. F. U. and its two sections, how
ever, cannot bind the unions by any action
il takes.
Members Of the c. F. U. said yesterday
that the Building Trades Employers Asso-
citation had men employed as commissioners
whose duties were identical with those OF
walking delegates or business agents, They
went around to buildings for the employers
lust as the unions business agents did.
Membeys Of the employers association
who were seen. admitted that such COM
masioners had been appointed.
Some Of the smaller contractors. it was
learned yesterday, have had building mater
ial delivered at night in spite Of the agree.
ment not to receive any. 1t was reported
to the association later that these cases
were Of minor Importance. but It was de-
nided that these offenders must explain
Why they did not obey the rules OF the
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