The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-22
BROOKLYN LUMBERMEN QUIT.
VIII REPLY no UNION BOYCOTT
ny CLOSING THEIR YARDS.
General shutdown at Noon on Saturday
THAT WIN Make 10000 Mechanics
nile and Tie IN All Building Through.
,uf the City-Yardnien to he Kept On.


Tho owners of lumber yards in Brooklyn
,ret, follow the Manhattan lumber dealers
/, d.ciuiug to deliver any more lumber
,r.r rhr labor situation clears. Their de-
,,.,,n which has been expected for several
Jav.. was made public yesterday in the
following statement issued by the Labor
committee of the Lumber Dealers As
socla,iou, at * Broadway
, bovrolt on the lumber of the Albro j.
\ovtor Company of Brooklyn was declared
today lay the labor unions. notice being
served ~, - many AS three operations that
h,.h.r delivered by that company would
not be- used by the union men at work thereon.
un saturday. at ~ o'clock noon. lumber
yards IN Brooklyn and in Queens. like those
nov closed in Manhattan and The Bronx.
uuI r,.,,n delivering lumber in Brooklyn and
IN queens
For a day or two little or no lumberfhas
hanu delivered in Brooklyn. Some Of the
wards stopped deliveries yesterday. The
effect of the shutdown will be more wide-
.prrad in Brooklyn and Queens than in
Manhattan even, on account of the large
number of frame buildings which are being
erected in the outskirts Of the two bor-
ourhs There are in all about twenty-five
large lumber yards in Brooklyn. and it
il estimated that the shutdown will make
about 10000 or 10000 mechanics in the
building trades idle in few days.
According to member of the Lumber
Dealers Association, the shutdown will
not affect the men working in the yards.
They will receive their wages, he said
whether there is work for them to do or not,
though he said one firm pays $40, 900 a week
for wages. The men will be kept piling
lumber or making improvements in the
yards. 5
had as that in Manhattan, II not worse, a
series of strikes having hindered builders
for the last eighteen months. The builders
have argued that united action was neces-
.ary in all three boroughs to bring matters
around to normal conditions.
1t was said yesterday that assurances
had been received from wholesale lumber
dealers throughout the country OF co6pera-
ton in the fight here to prevent the entire
trade from being at the mercy OF unions
Issued by the Press Committee Of the re-
Gently organized Building Trades En-
ployers' Association:
There is no intention OF distressing or
expressing LABOR unions as such. or Of
oi cooperation. the intention being 70 elimi-
nate the contentious that destroy the build
Ing The and Is .hs ande
wing principle Of this movement.
We wish to keep this issue clear. The
right of labor to organize Is as indisputable
as is the right of its individual members to
work and live. We are not ag ainst any organi;
cations OF the mechanics. but we intend
to resist those policies Of the unions which
we believe to be vicious and destroying to
business interests.
The names of the Emergency Committee
should be sufficient guarantee TO the public
that conservative counsel will prevail.
The Emergency Committee OF the asso-
citation is meeting daily. 1t was said last
night that the committee will first take
up the strike Of the iron workers against
the members Of the iron league. When a
plan for dealing with strikes is evolved
there may be conferences with representa-
tives of the Board of Building Trades A
communication from the association was
sent yesterday to the lumber dealers and
building material dealers associations
asking for closer cooperation In fighting
union domination. IT will be acted on
to-day. '".. 80 80 '"- -' TO