The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-13
LABOR NEWS FROM !.
GREATER new YORK

NEW YORK, June 12.-At confer
ence between Representatives Of en-
ployers and employees, an agreement
was drawn up which was expected to
end the building trades war in New
York. The truck drivers and laborers
employed in the yards of the material
dealers were asked to return to work
under the conditions which existed be-
fore the strike began. Recognition of
their union was I'd be waived, and the
men We're to return as individuals.
Contrary to all expectations, when the
agreement was presented to the Board
Of Building Trades for ratification, it
was rejected by a vote of % to Is, and
the strike will be continued. Incident
ally, the Board also rejected the basis
of settlement requiring that the build
ing material drivers be thrown out Of
the organization.
| Amalgamated vs.. Brotherhood Car
penters.
When the fight between the United
Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Joiners
and the Amalgamated Society of Car
penters and Joiners began some ten
weeks ago, the Amalgamated Society
had less than 500 members in New
York City. Now it has over $500 men,
| bers, and is taking in nightly carpen-
tiers who are leaving the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters, which organiza-
ton in the beginning nqmbered 5000.
It was a fight Of 500 against 5000, and
the 500 will win.
| Although an amalgamation of the
fyJn or not If nor ,foro hn
! highly commendable, this fight shows
hood seems to have thought otherwise,
! and it has had to pay dearly for the
experience. It is an easy matter to
drive few hundred unorganized men
to cover in fight. but when it comes
to attacking an organization like the
amalgamated carpenters that has been
in existence since 1860, and which has
over $1,000,000 in it's treasury, it is an
entirely different matter.
| The employers refuse to take the
| men back except as individuals, as they
broke an agreement when they went on
strike with the intention Of crushing
the rival union. The employers told
them they must return to work as in
! dividuals, or as members of the organ
ization which they hoped to crush when
they went out.
Clothing Cutters Win Eight Hours.
The threatened rupture between the
! clothing cutters and the manufacturers
has been averted and an amicable
agreement reached on a compromise by
which the cutters are to have the uni
form eight workday, but are to
waive their demand for pay on hoH-
days. The whole matter is to be form
ally settled at joint conference when
the new agreement is to be signed.
Delegate Fox, of the Amalgamated
Wood Workers International Union,
reported the formation of local start
ing with ESQ cigar-box makers, and he
declared his belief that within the year
the $4,000 cigar-box makers Of New
York will be within the union fold. -
The machinists in the Brooklyn ship
yards went on strike for a minimum
wage Of So a day and an increase =of Is
per cent for all men now getting S. or
more.
Machinists' Strike.
To enforce the demand for mini
mum wage of So a: day, members of the
international Association of Machinists
: who are employed in the marine shops
OF this city, are preparing for a general
!. strike. Negotiations between repre-,
sentatives of the union men and the
employers in the past week failed to
, bring about an agreement, the COM
promise offered by the employers being
rejected. The revised wage scale calls
, for an increase Of about so cents a day.
| % nf ho inic CT
who reported the impending strike to
the Central Federated Union, did not
, name the day on which the men will
go out, probably because the exact date
: will not be set until after the. matter
has been considered by the. Marine
r Trades Council. A strike of the ma,
chinists will cripple and may COM
Y pletely tie UP the marine shops and in
4 volve several thousand allied meehan-
5 les in idleness.
, Metal Poiishers Hope to Win.
Delegate Starr, of the metal polish.
:. ers, reported that the fight against the
= Iron League was progressing favorably
to the unions involved. None of the
strikers returned to work last week
although notified by the employers tina;
they would fill all places remaining
vacant last Saturday night, and not
j withstanding the. appeal made by thu
firms through special letters to indi
vidua1 strikers to break away from tn
Organization and return to the shops
n The Hecla Iron Works in. Brooklyn
- have been reopened.
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