New-York tribune., 1903-07-21
BUILDING TIE-UP ENDS.
% oo0 RETURN TO WORK.
Soon Orer 1900 More UW Haze
PIaceS-Men Pleased.

~ 1one looked for break in the shutdown Of
-.,s,-e work which started May Is took
-. yesterday. About twenty-five thousand
- -.+,,rned 10 work out of the thirty-five
.,.a-a whose unions have signed the arbitra-
- a,-aenent Of the Employers Association.
-. .bose returning TO work were the plas-
49,. "a rlasterers' Iaborers. numbering in all
-. .,.,-iye hundred. The hosts OF men who
os work did not disguise their satisfac-
"a many Of them expressed relief that
=. ,,,e strain was over.
ny 80. ss,ons were not in readiness yesterday to
:, .ba men who were willing back to
pu' hut within the next few days. it was
w. some fifteen thousand or twenty thou
- -,ore men will have positions at the build
~ s4 The board Of governors of the Employers
-..,e,,on met yesterday at the Townsend
-,si,e No. !. .123 Broadway. and heard re-
- II was intimated that no action was
- N be taken toward fixing time limit
-tsr ,rork must be generally resumed.
cLs,rn7an / X Prince. of the press commit
-. - the Employers Association. announced
ss,er the meeting that the Hosting Engineers
Association had voted to accept the plan OF
s-bitration He added:
The reason the arbitration agreement IS not
.t,,a5 ss because an official Of the union is out
- town whose signature is necessary He is
ov,a4ted back tomorrow, when il viii be
signed"
The hosting engineers are necessary in oroer
that other trades can work and their action is
,,,rAa On as Fastening the end OF the whole
.-ouble. The FIousesmiths and Bridgemen's
Union Is now the only organization that is an
eeeetive stumbling block TO complete resump-
ton Of work
The Board Of Building Trades met yesterday
afternoon at Brevoort Hall. Fifty-fourth-st,
near Third-ave.. and expelled the Brotherhood
~ Ca-penters and the Plasterers LaboVers'
Union for signing the arbitration agreement
As soon as the agreement is actually signed by
the Hosting Engineers Association that or
Fanlzation also viii be expelled
A meeting Of delegates whose unions have been
expelled by the Board Of Building Trades tor
signing the arbitration agreement was held
Yesterday IN the forenoon. TO consider the ques-
+ion OF forming a separate Board OF Delegates
Several Of the expelled delegates said that as
under the arbitration agreement there could be
no sympathetic strikes a board of delegates was
NOT necessary. The general sentiment seemed to
be In favor Of having no board Of delegates and
Of eecting in each union two arbitratoTs, who
could be called on If necessary under the arbi-
tration agreement. The duties of the business
agents under this arrangement would be TO see
that the agreement was lived up TO and to report
70 the unions ali cases which they thought re-
ouired adjustment or arbitration. Another
meeting viii be held this week, at which some
plan of action viii be decided on.
The Iaborers' Union Protective Society, which
consists Of Inasons' lsborers, made a demand
over two months ago for an increase of wages
effect on July l. Delegates ordered strikes of
rnasons' laborers on a number of buildings yes
ter6ay 70 enforce this demand, but only a few
Of the lsborers went out