The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-13
DELEGATES READY TO GIVE IN.
SOME OF THEM DON'T OBJECT
NOW TO EMPLOYERS PLAN.
whether They DO or Not Won't Matter, II
the Unions Accept It-Marble Workers
Still Standing Out--LOcked Out, Their
Boss Says-PrOspects for Work.

nOSs oays-frOspectS Tor WOrk.
The Board OF Building Trades will meet
again to-day and 30 through the motions
of passing finally upon the plan OF arbi-
tration of the Building Trades Employers
Association. 1t was stated yesterday that
the action Of the board will depend largely
on how many unions from the skilled trades
have accepted the plan.
As a matter of fact, the plan being adj
dressed to the unions and the unions being
the employers Of the walking delegates
forming the board, If a majority Of the
unions decides In favor Of the plan there
lis little left for the board but to submit.
The Parks faction of the board, which has
still some influence. will be out in force
to-day, 80 it was said yesterday, and will
try to get the board to condemn the plan
with the idea Of influencing the unions in
some way against it,
william Tobin, delegate Of the Marble
Machine Workers, stated at yesterdays
meeting Of the Central Federated Union
that a general lockout of the marble
workers by the Marble Industry Employers
Association went into effect last Friday,
affecting 1 900 men. These included marble
cutters, machine stone workers, polishers,
rubbers and sawyers and the marble work.
ers' helpers.
Tobin said that the reason given by the
employers for locking out the men was
cumulated in the shops which 1t would take
a long time to use up. He added:
Il know better than this. The manu-
facturers belong to the Building Trades
Employers Association, which wants to
force US to accept its plan OF arbitration.
First, the employers sent their original
plan. then an amended plan and finally a
the marble trades rejected them all. 1t is
ridiculous to say that the lockout was for
any other reason than to force us to accept
this plan OF arbitration. -
Tobin went on to say that the union
would not accept the plan, anyway. He
did not say what were the specific objections
of the marble workers to the plan.
Delegate McConville of the Safety Asso-
citation of Engineers told the c. F. U that
his association and the Portable Engineers
Union which have amalgamated, would not
return to work after the shut down was
OF until they had received an increase OF
wages. @~
emily, have come around to the point OF at
least making no objection to the plan Of
arbitration. Edward Kelly, business agent
of the Electrical Workers, who have ac-
cepted the plan, said yesterday that in his
belief a very decided break in the shutdown
will take place this week
All the members of his union would return
to work to-day, but he believed that it
would be considerably more than week
before the entire shutdown would be over.
As to the plan of arbitration, he said:
Il do not see anything wrong in it as
amended The more l have studied 1t
the more I am convinced that there is moth
ing in it to object to and that after all it
was not worth such a long fight.
Il believe when the trouble is all ended
a good many people will agree with me.
Any one who thinks that the acceptance Of
this plan will bring about labor millennium
will make a great mistake. There will
always be more or less strikes, but it will
be long time, probably, before there is
cessation of work on large SCALE
A meeting Of the board of governors Of
the Employers Association will be held
to-day to hear reports from the unions.
b. The general impression among the more
optimistic OF the employers is that in all
probability from 10000 to $4,000 men will
go hack to work under the arbitration
agreement this week and that this will
soon be followed by other unions accepting
the plan whether the walking delegates
like it or not