The sun., 1903-05-30
UNIONS READY TO GIVE IN.
BUILDING DEADLO(k LIKELY TO
END NEXT WEEK.
Board OF Building Trades Preparing 10
Abandon the striking Drivers and
PLEAD tor "OpPn'' Lumber Yards
More inside iron Workers strike


The indications yesterday pointed to the
ending of the deadlock in the building trades
next week and the speedy resumption OF
work throughout the city.
The Board of Building Trades, whose in
dorsemen; Of the demands of the Building
Material Drivers Union led to all the trouble,
has evidently experienced a change of heart
since it's meeting oi last Wednesday. II
spent three hours vest tert.ay discussing the
quest ion whe her il had acted wisely or not.
Some of tie dclosates wanted TO know
what was to be gained by throwing 100 900
people out of work in a prosperous building
season
The board will reconsider its action
irGolsing tie demands # tie ew union
of unstiled laLorrrs. ILis viii probably
be done on Monday, when it is expected
that the action Of the board will lie re-
scntled. The official announce ment after
the meeting was as follows
The board has decided to reconsider its
action in indo, sing the demands Of the Bald
ing Material Drivers Union. 1his will be
done either on Monday or on Wednesday
We do not undertake to forecast what the
result will be. bur we are in hopes Of a speedy
settlement of the trouble.
President Donovan of the board SAID it
had been decided as far as tn" schools were
concerned that union men could handle the
material. no matter by whom it was ds-
ilv"red He would not mention tho word
union" or "non-union.
The committee of five appointed by the
board to bring the Lumber Dealers and
Building Material Dealers associations be-
fore the courts for conspiracy also changed
its programme. II will go before the
employers next week and suggest that they
have open yards, which means that union
and non-union men may be employed indls-
criminately The committee had nothing
to report about conspiracies.
The shut down in the lumber yards In
Manhattan and The Bronx took place on
May S. owing to the strike Of the Team
Drivers Union, which was newly organized,
for recognition. The shutdown in the
building material dealers Yards took place
the next day, on account of strikes to
unionize the yards. This was followed
by shutdown in the Brooklyn yards in
support Of the Manhattan lumber dealers.
1t was said yesterday that the employers
might insist on tie ending Of all other labor
troubles before opcning the yards in order
Among the unsettled troubles are demand
of the bricklayers that foremen must be-
long to the union, and strikes Of plasterers'
laborers, cement workers and inside iron
workers. The strikes and the shutdown
have kept 1000 men idle for nearly a
month
A large number OF bricklayers went this
week to Newark, wher, q strike In the build
ins trades has been settled Several hun
dred bricklayers intended to leave town
on Monday, but now they will wait to see
il the expected end OF the deadlock takes
place.
Strikes were ordered yeste rday by the
housesmiths and bridgemen's union on
buildings on Jersey City, where the j. B.
l. j. NJ. Cornell Company has contracts.
These strikes are ordered in sympathy
with the inside architectural iron workers,
who are on strike in this city against the
company. The Cornell company Is in the
Iron League, against which the strike Of
the inside architectural iron workers 10
directed.
Strikes of structural iron workers we're
also ordered in this city against several
architectural iron workers demand a new
wage scale.
A representative Of the Iron League
said yesterday that more than one half
of the inside ironworkers who had gone
on strike had returned to work. To test
the vitality of the strike of the teamsters,
he said, his firm had advertised for a team
ster and had received 200 applications.