New-York tribune., 1903-06-29
FULLER COMPANY YIELDS
MEN TO RETURN TO WORK
Concern May Finish Contracts At
Sub-COntract0rs Refuse.

1t was learned yesterday that a plan OF arpl-
tration had been agreed upon between the
George A. Fuller Company and its employees
and that an agreement would be signed to-day
under which twenty thousand men employed
by the company or it's sub-contractors would
return TO work The men are expected to re-
turn to work tomorrow or next day, and, as
some of the sub-contractors are members or the
Building Trades Employers Association, in case
these sub-contractors do not resume work, the
company will probably finish the contracts it.
self it is asserted The plan of arbitration diff
fers little from that of the employers assocla-
ton.
Representatives Of the building trades unions
met last evening in Bloomingdale Turn Verein
Hall. Fifty-fourth-st. and Eighth-ave., to hear
reports from unions a proposition made to
the individual employers in the association The
unions represented were the Whitestone AS
sociation of Marble Polishers, the Plain and
Ornamental PIasterers' Union. the Mosaic and
Encaustic Tile Layers Union, the Amalgamated
Carpenters Society, Brotherhood of Painters
Steam Filters Union, Elevator Constructors
Union Safety Engineers Union, Portable HOIST
ing Engineers Union, Salamander Association or
Pipe and Boiler Covere IS, Reliance Labor CIub OF
Marble Cutters Amalgamated Painters Society.
Metallic Lathers Union and the Compact Labor
Club of Marble Cutters Helpers. James Mason
presided and said that the proposition sub
mitted to the employers contained in the
following resolution, passed by the unions a
week ago:
That this conference recommends that ea-5
union in the building trades address communl-
cation to the employers asking them to restore
the original conditions existing prior to the
lockout, the unions promising at the same time
to consider any plan of arbitration whlch might
be submitted to them
W H. Farley. James P Archibald and Z. A.
,ciIi iati on Conn
mittee of the Civic Federation, were to attend
this meeting to submit the plan of the Con-
ciIiation Committee for approval. This plan was
that each union should appoint committee
of three to meet similar committees from the
employers, with a view to coming toSether III
order that some settlement might be reached
the question of declaring the shut down on 10 De
left in abeyance. The members OF the Concllid-
tion Committee did not appear, however.
The various unions reported tnat the en-
ployers had declined the proposal contained IN
the resolution of the unions. AS TO the propo-
sition of the Civic Federation, one or two OF the
delegates said that it hardly likely that
many unions would accept 1t under the present
circIinstances The following statement was
made after the meeting
Inasuuch as the labor organizations have not
received the consideration due them and the
public being denied the true facts relating to
the unwarranted stand taken by the Bulldlng
Trades Employers, many of the organizations
propose a mass meeting to give the public the
truthful and honest side of the questions in
volved. 1t has been declQed 10 holu SuGl
mass meeting subject to the call OF the chalr-
man. after each organization takes up the mat
ter and reports on ii.
Delegate Fitzgerald of the Reliance Labor
Club said: 'If the employers had been honest
with the labor unions they would have COM
municated any cases of alleged extortion of
delegates to the unions, which would have with
out delay started investigation There was
no necessity for such an unwarranted act as
shutting down all work
.SThe meeting to-day" said delegate, was
designed to present the olive branch TO the en-
nIovers The conditions should be restored to
+t,oea before Nav IL