The sun., 1903-11-24
FULLER co. FIGHTS The UNION
LAST FRIEND PARKS'S OLD MEN
HAD RETIRES DISGUSTED.
Saturdays Strike Order the Last Straw
Company May Try to Join League
Takes New Men. and Bars Strikers
Out-Buchanan's Strike F1Z2le.

saturdays Strlke OTueT Unc hsust Straw
Company May Try to Join League
Takes New Men. and Bars Strikers
Out-Buchanan's Strike Fzzle.
With Sam Parks in jail the George A..
Fuller Company yesterday. for the first
time since it made its April agreement
with Parks's old union, now always referred
to as Local No. q arrayed itself squarely
against the union yesterday and will oppose
1t tooth and nail.
The union ordered strikes on the Fuller
jobs on Saturday As soon as the company
ascertaned yesterday morning that the
strike order was being obeyed it began to
arrange for filling the places Of the strikers
with members of the new Housesmiths'
Union of New York. 1t is now regarded as
within the range Of probability that the
Fuller company will seek admittance to the
Building Trades Employers Association
and Join with the Iron League and its fight
against the former Parks union.
Strikes are now scheduled on all the
Fuller contracts outside OF the fity as part
Of the international strike ordered by
President Buchanan. L. was made plain yes.
terday, however, that the great strike is
Already fasco. The Iron League esti-
mated that its members had less than 300
men working In outside cities The Fuller
company. which has one or two large out
Of town cortra.ts has less than 500 iron
workers employed on them,
Francis D. Jackson, general manager OF
the Hecla Iron Works in Williamsburg,
received telephone message from the
company's representative in Boston yester-
day that seventy iron workers employed
by the company on Boston contract had
refused to obey Buchanan's strike order
Mr.. jackson was further informed that the
reason the men refused to go on strike was
because they were perfectly satisfied with
their lot.
President s. p. Mcconnell OF the Fuller
company had a talk with one or two MEM
bers of the Iron League yesterday about
getting men from the new Housesmiths'
Union Of New York. He was referred to
its secretary, p. c. Mcclure, who guaranteed
to supply the company with all the men
it needed. A number of men were put in
the places OF strikers on the building at
Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue, and
the places of the other strikers are ex-
pected to be filled in day, or two; -,
announced emphatically yesterday that he
was through with Local No. for good.
He admitted that he had seen some MEM
bers of the Iron League and that he was
negotiating, with. the new Housesmiths
would seek admission to the employers
association and the Iron League, he said:
Il will not say what the company may
do in order to oppose Local NO. 2. FOR
the first time we are able to take the other
side. The iron workers who went on a
sympathy strike at the Rogers bnilGine
set UP as plea preposterols technicality.
The present strike is fiat violation OF the
April agreement which cannot be mis-
understood. There is now no agreement
and we will fill the places OF the strikers
from the new union as fast as we can:
We can get all the good men we want and
will have police protection for them II
necessary
Regarding the company's out Of town
contracts, he said he understood that an
attempt would be made TO. get the iron
workers on them to quit work in sympathy,
filled. Less than 500 iron workers were
employed by the company out OF town.
The largest contract was the Wabash
station at Pittsburg, where about 100 men
were at work. Twenty-Five were en-
poyed at a terminal at st. Louis There
we're n number of smaller contracts in
other cities In this city he thought about
200 men had quit work altogether.
At the headquarters OF the Employers
Assocat ion F.. l.. Prince, who is member
OF the iron League, Sdiu Niat puNi!uhoh .
so-called national strike against the League
was not worth serious consideration. He
knew not hing Of the National Alliance OF
Structural Workers which. Buchanan said,
would guarantee the cooperation of nine
other trades.
MIR. Prince made public copy OF a letter
sent by Buchanan to the OF her housesmit his
unions on Oct s in which he urged he sus.
pension of Local No. as the best means OF
eliminating the turbulent element in the
union and then recognizing the union.
Without ment ioning Parks the letter says
of him.
New York has become famous for radical
and dishonest methods on the part OF the
building trades representatives of that city.
for the reason that the most notorious man
in the country is the representatiye Of the the
structural iron workers of New York. He
appeared to know no limit as to what he
would do with those who opposed him. He
finally involved our organization in one OF
the most disastrous contests with their en-
pioyers in the history Of trades unions.
P. C. Mcclure, secretary Of the new
Housesmiths Union, said last night that
he had agreed with the Fuller company to
supply all the housesmiths it needed.