The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-08
Union BUCKS Big COAL FIRM
uUJ,H WOtLDN'T LET MEN OFF
,aR LABOR DAY PARADE.
Now. says the walking Delegate. Wen shut
on curtis 4 Blaisdeli's supply Of
GOAL and Starye FIN Out-Firm Pays
Better Than Union Wages to Men.

pc,,rr Than Union Wages to Men.
Because Curtis 4 Blaisdell. one Of the
largest coal -dealing firms in the city, were
ol,,ped to deliver rush orders of coal yester-
d,v morning, and refused to let their men
nr in time for the Labor Day parade, Walk
inc Delegate Martin Stahl of Teamsters'
Tr;on No. $50 ordered their 200 drivers on
strike He says this action will be fol-
loved to-day by the calling out OF the 100
,oaIhandIcrs and probably of the engineers
and fr.men, who belong to affiliated or
CARNATIONS.
Non-union drivers and few union team
sters who refused to strike made Curtis
4 Blaisdells deliveries Yesterday to hotels
and lighting plants that had to have coal
or shut down
The Transfers Union and affiliated unions
arr now going to try to "starve' Curtis
4 Blaisdell into taking back all OF their old
men and discharging their non-union men.
A meeting Of Local $50 has been called for
o'clock this morning by Vice-President
Edwin Gould OF the International Brother
hood of Transfers.
This is the result of an order sent last week
10 coal dealers by President NJ. McGrath
OF Transfers Local $50, notifying them
that II they had any coal to deliver yester-
day it must be delivered in time for the
t4amsvers to take part in the Labor Day
parade.
Upon receiving McGraths order, Curtis
4 Baisdell told their drivers that the hotels
and lighting plants could not 60 over
Sunday and a holiday following without
the delivery Of coal according to contract
All Of the drivers consented to take out one
load, but were told that that would not be
enough. The firm then offered the mon a
dollar q week more than union pay il they
would leave the union and work regardless
Of union orders. Some Of them refused and
others consented.
We will tie up Curtis 4 Blaisdell's yard
until they come to TERMS said Walking
Delegate Stahl yesterday afternoon. when
they have delivered what coal they have
now in the yards they will be unable to
yet any more, for union men will be ordered
not to handle oonsignments intended for
them
Tho Transfers Local is not represented
on the Board Of Walking Delegates. but is a
member Of the Central Federated Union
and is therefore affiliated with the unions
OF the stationary engineers and fremen,
and is directly affiliated with the Coal
Handlers Union Curtis 4 Blaisdell have
wards at Dover street and East River l02
Washington street, Pier q East River,
Fifty-sixth street and the East River. l19th
street and the East River and ON the Hud-
Slpt. John T, Abel Of the Curtis i
Blaisdell concern has always been against
the unionizing Of the teamsters. We have
500 men in Local 653 We sent out an
agreement last May, when we unionized,
which all the coal dealers in town signed.
Curtis i Blalsdell have broken their
agreement l myself went to them last
week and told them that they could have
their men in the morning until 1t was time
to parade and after the parade they could
have the men back il they needed them.
"Mr. Abel said he d let us know on Satur-
day what the firm would do, and on Satur-
day he offered them $3.50, $l4 and SIC
week to quit the union and work all day.
That was q violation of the agreement.
The men refused and said they didn't
want to work on Labor Day. as 1t was their
only holiday and legal holiday, too. 80
Sin addition to the 200 teamsters, there
&re about one hundred and sixty handlers
and several stationary engineers and fire.
men In the firms yards. The handlers will
be called out tomorrow and probably
the engineers and 6remen.
Some Of tho teamsterr havs been with
Curtis i Blaisdell for eighteen years. They
must all be taken back and we have the
strength to force tho firm to do IT,
Policemen guarded the Curtis g. Blaia-
dell yards yesterday, and the concern sup
piled the big hotels and lighting plente
that every ono Of the 200 teamsters ha6
refused to work, full force, among them
q number Of the old drivers, worked until
u o'clock yesterday morning In the Curtis
Blsisdel yards. At that hour all the
rush orders had beer filled.
One OF the old drivers who remained
Of coal from tho Fast Fiity-.ixth street
yard for tho Hotel Savoy aud was stopped
at First avenue and Ffty-ssvsnth street
by three men.
You're a scab,' said one Of the three.
Turn back to the yardi'
4 went out on strike before and lost
r, JOB, r; :Ri. IN Miller. I'm going to
Back to the yard This is Labor Day.
and il you 60 TO Fifth avenue where the
parade Ia the men will kill you, said one
Of the Instructors, as he caught one Of
the horses by the bride. One Of Curtis
4 Blaisdell's bosses came up and told
Miller to have the men arrested. Miller
Frank Tully, driver, Of 1882 First avenue.
Tully was arraigned before Magistrate
Cornell 10 the Yorkville police court.
you have a perfect right to leave your
employment whenever you choose, but
you have no right to force others by threats
10 stop working said Magistrate Cornell.
IF you were an older man I would send
you to the workhouse direct. You are
Aned $40 Tully could not pay and was
taken to a cell.
Curtis Il Baisdell have given notice
that they have places for teamsters at a
dollar more than union wages, and they
have received so many applications for
Jobs that they anticipate no trouble in
making their deliveries