The sun., 1903-07-14
PARKS BOUNCES FOUR UNIONS.
THREATENS TO PUT OUT OTHERS
ACCEPTING EMPLOYERS PLAN.


Spectacle OF His Building Trades Board
Gradually Eliminating ltsef-Mean-
time Expelled Unions Havo Men at
Work and Don't Care, but tho House,
smiths Control Many Buildings.
The Board OF Building Trades. with
Sam Parks and his friends In control. hav-
ing rejected the arbitration plan OF the
Board OF Governors OF the Building Trades
Employers Association, met yesterday
afternoon to decide what was to be done TO
the unions represented in II which have
signed agreements accepting the plan.
The board finally expelled the four unions
which have done this. and gave tho Plas-
terers' Union--which has accepted the
agreement provided the plasterers' laborers
get s3.25 instead OF 50 a day--until to-mor-
row 10 give up the agreement or get out.
Other unions which have decided to ac-
cept the plan, but have not yet got their
men at work under It, are to be dealt with
later. IL the board goes on expelling
unions as fast as they accept the plan,
there soon won't be any unions left In the
board. which. as the employers say. will
greatly simplify the situation.
The four expelled unions arc the Mosaic
and Encaustio Tile Layers Union, the
Electrical Workers Union, the Tile Layers
Helpers Union and the Cement Masons'
Union. From 5000 to 10000 OF their menn-
bers returned to work yesterday, and 80
did members of one or two unions which
have accepted the agreement, but are not
represented in the Building Trades Board
The delegates Of the four unions left the
hall as soon as the vote to expel them was
taken James j DAILY, who represents the
| Tile Layers Union, was boiling with rage.
-rl be dsmned lam II we're going to be Iy ruled ed
ns he 'fsf s nas the ha .1 Worassmen %
some liberty yet. We have signed the
; agreement; our men are at work and will
remain at work. The board can 60 right
on expelling.'
Parks said 1These unions we have
expelled should not try to carry water
! on both shoulders. Their place is at the
| employers headquarters AT Twenty-sixth
street and Broadway. The employers want
! 10 take away our only weapon, the sym
| pathetic strike; but they cant do it,.
Parks talked OF ordering strikes right and
left-there being very few men left to order
! out. William Fyfe, acting secretary OF the
board, had no comments to make. IL was
I
| HousesmithsO, which has rejected the
plan, could alone stop all other work on
| many buildings.
Late in the afternoon a conference was
| held between committees Of the Plasterers'
Union and the employers association
and 1t was agreed that the union would
sign the plan Of arbitration and that the
employing plasteres should restore the
wages Of $3.2S a day to the laborers. l.. X.
| Prince said afterward that President Grimes
Of the union had pledged himself to bring
the plan OF arbitration, signed by the union,
to the employers tom orrow and that the
| plasterers and their laborers would then
| resume work.
| Mr.. Prince would not give figures as to the
| number OF men at work yesterday. He an
| nounced that the Keasbey & Mattison Com
pany. asbestos pipe coverers, which with
drew from the association two weeks ago,
, had applied for reinstatement and that
( a vote Of thanks had been passed to the
American Institute OF Architects for its
helpful attitude during the present Indus
| trial war.
There was some talk last evening about
the unions expelled from the Board Of
Building Trades forming a new board.