The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-31
WILL PARKS'S UNION GIVE IN?
RgCHtNtN TELLS THEN TO
IIFID TO THE BOSSES.


the International Executive Committee
attended the meeting of the Houscsmiths
and Bridgcmen's Union in Maennechor
Hall last night, and Buchanan got the floor.
He was jeered and hooted at first hut forced
the meeting TO give him respectful hearing
"You ought to be ashamed OF your
selves" he said. you have made your
selves a laughing stock to organized labor
everywhere throughout this country
He denounced the union for following
Parks blindly and made a strong appeal
to the members to sign the arbitration
agreement,
"You have been asked to sign it :" he said.
"On the one side you have a national strike
on the other. peace and prosperity. X
you decide to sign the arbitration plan to-
night, think | Gun bring pressure on the
employers to accept this union"
After several amendments il was decided
to instruct the international and local en-
ecuive committees to go before the Iron
League and make the best settlement they
could, If settlement is reached. the
national strike called for to-day will be all
off
Secretary Johnston OF the international
committee said after the meeting that the
arbitration agreement would never he
signed by the union.
A committee to which charges against
President Robert Z, Neidig Of disloyCty
TO the union were referred reported that
they were hot sustained.
| 1t was also stated hat charges viii be
! preferred Friday against Walking Delegates
Parks and Mccarthy.
The calling of national strike of struct :
ural iron workers by the international and
! local committees of the union caused p
big turmoil yesterday. Numbers Of the
members gathered around the Ashland
House, the headquarters OF President
Buchanan, and some OF them were not slow
/ in stating that the strike would be fiasco
and would break up the International union.
Mer who had stood by Parks were cursing
f, him yesterday after the verdict Of the jury
corvicting him Of extortion was made
known and were saying they were fools
| to allow their families to suffer in order to
satisfy the ambition Of criminal.
I, At the Townsend Building. where the
| Employers Association meets. II was stated
| that the strike order was bluff and could
end In nothing but a miserable fzzle. Few
i, new contracts were being undertaken in
| the present disturbed state Of the trade,
1t was said. ard about 500 draughtsmen
had been discharged by architects and
| builders.
President Buchanan banks on the support
| of the international unions in the building
| ira des and has had several conferences
: with FresiGect Mcmahon Of the Interna-
| tional Association of Steam Engineers.
which comprises the hosting en- giEeers.
! He viii have another conference with
McMAhon at the Ashland House at 10 0 clock
| this morning.
Many members OF the local union cast
black looks at him. though the strife sched-
! uled for to-day was ordered against his
wishes. To Sun reporter he said:
Il have received assurances from the
heads of all the national and international
| associations Of structural iron workers
that they will come to our support when
called on ! cannot tell how many men
will be affected"
| Buchanan and the members Of the local
committee did not appear to be on speaking
terms Some of the Parks men who were
there had a kind word for Parks, who 10
credited with pulling up tEeir wages, but
they were few. One of them said Park.
did wrong, admit, but he helped the union
There are people out Of Jail who are far
! worse than he is.
This was far from the prevailing senti-
ment among the other members OF the
union hanging around. One man said to
the reporter
@To hell with Parks. have made an ass
of myself going on strike for three months,
! for what? Not for higher wages, but to
keep criminal in power. In the mean
timo and my family have been living on
bread and tea for three months, while the
members Of the new union have been work.
ing for good wages
sai AP0'Ne' man. formerly q '''sno Of ra'N''
I'VE have been led around by the nose
like fools. Members Of the housesmiths'
union are earning from So to $40 a week
by working overtime, while we who are
idle are pawning our goods"
Didn't Parks raise your wages to a. so
| q day." he was asked
-He didn't" the man replied. .The
union did it and would have done it il
Parks had never been born"
This man said that if Buchanan depended
on the inside iron workers striking, he was
mistaken 1t would take the inside iron
workers TO bring the number of strikers
up to 10, 900. He also said that in Pitts
burg, Boston and number OF other cities.
the locals would simply ignore the strike
order.
Buchanan said last evening that the
terms with the American Bridge Company
the Phoenix Company. the Pennsylvania
Steel Works, Wells Brothers, Chicago. and
McClintock 4 Marsh
Patrick C. MCGUIRE, secretary of tho
housesmiths' union Of New York. issued
a statement Yesterday denying that mem
beers of his union would join the strikers
I'VE have signed the arbitration agree
ment," he said, -and will stick to it. The
members Of Local No 2, know personally
are tired of the element which controls
il. They won't throw up their work to
please the friends of convicted extor-
TONER.
"The International association has
80 900 members and only $4,000 in its
treasury. The American Federation of
Labor is still holding back its charter,
"The inside iron workers won't strike.
The entire strike won't bring oSt 500 men
and it will destroy the international
union
Among the firms which Were doing
work outside Of this city, Mcclure men
toned the j. Is, n j. NJ. Cornell Com
pany, the Pagan Iron Works of Hoboken
and six others. Their contracts were
small, he said, and tho strikers places
would be filed al once.