The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-12
WON'T CONFER WITH STRIKERS
FIRST GO BACK TO WORK, SAY
SHEPPARD OWNERS.
strike was Ordered After Union Leaders
Knew Metal Trades Association Had
Appointed q Committee Of Peacemak.
ers-Yards May Open to All Labor Soon.

9trfke was Oruereu NteV S"W" s|osoU'
Knew Metal Trades Association Had
Appointed q Committee Of Peacemsk.
e~-Yards May Open TO All Labor Soon.
The executive committee OF the New
York Metal Trades Association yesterday
rejected q proposal Of the Marine Trades
Council to meet a committee OF Ave OF the
association at 3 o'clock this afternoon for
the purpose Of arbitrating the strike, The
committee also decided to send an ulti-
matum 70 the council to the effect that
there could be no arbitration until the
strike was declared on.
Commissioner H. c. Hunter Of the Metal
Trades Association sent the following letter
To W. Moran. secretary Of the council;
DEAR SIR: ! beg to acknowiedee the re-
OF tho Murine Trades Council OF the district
al q Sy the NsM YORK; Metal
Association to confer with the committee OF
the Marine Trades Council <,--,,
Inasmuoh as the Marine Trades Council
has declared a sympathetic strike AGAINST the
Townsend Downcy Shipbullding Company.
and this strike was declared after the Marine
polntment Of the committee Of this assoca-
ton 70 confer With committee OF the Marine
Trades Council n sss to S's EO not ,h confer f
Council until the strike /. te,lared on
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the time Of the strike OF the blacksmiths and
blacksmiths helpers and new cm POD ~
DrH Di.aSpt q hns saSsS"te Of strike. and
lockouts. the members OF this association
on s apH '' Nel'fer any will ,his sssoSaen
covntennnoc a lockou, on any srbitrable
kilograms have been received all day
from the various yards notifying me that
work said Mr.. Hunter. Meetings Of
strikers were held In the vicinity OF num-
Der OF the yards, at which the strike was
denounced; All the departments In the
Townsend-Downey yards are running
excepting the painting department. The
company has hired gang Of twelve men
to 20 To work In that department Tomorrow;
Wallace Downey OF the Townsend
Downey Company. said to sun reporter;
belicve will be open yards where union
and non -union men will be employed. II
the fight Ia carried much further the yards
may have to declare war on the unions.
This association was formed partly TO
arrange for averting strikes by the ap-
pointment OF committees. The black
smiths strike last summer was settled in
this way and an agreement with. the union
wn signed ending next September by
which all troubles would be settled by
arbitration.
Delegate Parker who signed that agree
ment on the part Of the union, he said.
was the man who ordered the blacksniths
on strike at Shooters Island.
The yards were quiet 30 far, he said,
but one OF the men at work was sssa uited
by strikers near his home in Elisab<th
on Tuesday night and two Of his teeth
were knocked out.
The 500 members Of Local No. 7 Of the
National Union Of Shipwrights, Joiners and
Caulkers, who were ordered on strike at
SHOOTERS Island obeyed the order yoster-
day morning.
leaders are in dilemma. The strike has
been unsatisfactory TO the men and the
strikers expect them to do something As
last resort they may order general strike
in all the yards.
The strike OF the boilermakers and ship
builders In South Brooklyn, where 1900
went out on Tuesday, may lead 20 q deter
mined fight against unionism on the part
Of the employers.
cannot get along without union labor said
r. p. Morse. president OF the Morse Iron
Works, yesterday. We will employ men
TO work for US whether they are union men
or not. II we cannot get them temporary
shutdown will result The port OF New
York has been nion-rdden long enough.
IF we take any Of the men back they will
find they must work nine instead of eight
hours day, and no Saturday half holiday
A notice was posted at the gates Of the
various yards In Brooklyn and at Erie Basin
warning the strikers that unless they re-
turned 70 work this morning their places
would be filled