The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-04
WON'T STRIKE FOR sam PARKS
ONLY ~ IRON WORKERS HEED
MS ORDER-OR rs 1T N?
pes,,, Of Ills Latest Move Against the
Iron League -steamfitters and Their
helpers out for Higher pay-Indepen-
d.rt Iron workers show Up for Work.


II accordance with his threat OF last
,ro,k TO start the fight against the Iron
loague anew. Sam Parks set out yesterday
,,,orning to order strikes Of housesmiths
,ll oyer the CITY. He met with a frost, for
,L, 6Ftncn housesmiths were reported
=, strike when Parks made his report to
,ha Board Of Building Trades in the after
noon According to the strikers them
solves. only eleven men went out.
The strikes were ordered against the
JRSJ NJ. Cornell Company on the Equit-
able Life annex, Cedar street and Broad
yav and on new building at Sixteenth
street aud Broadway
The housesmiths on some other buildings
did not care to strike without a solid ex-
cuse and they did not consider that the
OCCASION warranted any new action, The
meeting Of tho Board of Building Trades
lasted little over ten minutes, Parks
.aid he would extend the strikes to-day
IA contracts Of the j. B. h j. NJ. Cornell
company and Millken Bros in Jersey
CITY and Staten Island.
The Steamfitters' and Helpers unions,
which mnde demand before the shut
down for an advance In wages from "a to IS
n dsy for steamfitters and from 81 80 to 50
a dav FOR helpers. TO go into effect on Aug 1,
ordered general strike Yesterday through
ont the city According TO the delegate,
80 s,camfit'ers and 800 helpers quit work.
The two unions had not signed the arb-
ration agreement of the Employers Asso-
,ia,on so the strike had not a great effect
ON association contracts.
II was also extended to all independent
.ontrarts in Manhattan and Brooklyn and
- all The contracts of the George A. Fuller
Company. though the Board Of Building
Trades had made an arbitration agreement
with he Fuller company. The delegates
said that the strikes were directed against
men 10 whom the Fuller company had
-ibet its steam-httine contracts.
Among the buildings alleged 10 he affected
Nv the strike are the Astcr Hotel, Forty
fifth street and Broadway; the Lyric Theatre,
Fortv-second street and Broadway; the
Manhattan Life Building, 20 Broadway:
he Mutual Life annex. 80 Nassau street;
he Metropolitan Life Building, Tive MY
third street and Fourth avenue; the New
Amsterdam Hotel and the Wall Street
Exchange.
Many iron workers applied for employ
ment individually Yesterday morning at
The office of C. f. Cheney Of the Iron League,
in reply 20 advertisements. They were
sent 10 work If found competent, Hun
freds Of letters from other applicants were
received.
Secretary Cheney declined 70 say when
The proposed Housesmiths' Union OF New
York. which Will come under the plan of
arbitration. would he formed. He said,
however, that the Iron Leagues plan was
10 have a permanent agreement with a
union rather than with individuals.
It was announced at the headquarters
Of the Employers Association that the
New York Wood Carvers and Modelers'
Association, which has l, 900 members,
signed the arbitration agreement yester-
day.
or the 10, 900 men who were made idle
when the shutdown was declared it was
estimated that about $4,000 were working
Yesterday. A. F. Pelham of the Pelham
Hosting Company said that hosting engi-
neers were employed on many buildings
and more would be put TO work to-day
II was said last night that a number of
unions which signed the Fuller agreement
we're thinking Of backing out of it. A
delegate of the Amalgamated Sheet Metal
Workers Union said that the orgsnisat ions
signing the Fuller agreement were led TO
relieve that the members Of the employers
association would have TO adopt it. but
hey were disappointed.
There was a report last night that there
would be a general strike Of plumbers to-
dav for an increase of wages.