The sun., 1903-10-30
BIG STRIKE TO HELP PARKS.
CALLED BY NATIONAL UNION
OVER KUCHANAN'S HEAD.


Over the head of Frank Buchanan, the
| iron workers national president, a strike
| affecting all the contracts Of members OF
| the Iron League in this and other cities
| throughout the country was ordered last
night by the international and local COM
| mittees of the International Association Of
| Structural Iron Workers after stormy
! session at the Ashland House. This strike
is looked on as the last card of the Parks
men in Local No, 2 in its fight to compel
it's recognition by the Iron League and the
employers association. Ii Is to 70 into
effect tomorrow.
President Buchanan wanted TO keep
on. in spite of repeated rebuffs, trying TO
arrange matters with the Iron League The
Parks men, though Sam Parks is in Jail,
convicted on one charge Of extortion, on
trial for another and with more indictments
hanging over his head, carried all before
them. Besides the work done city
here and in other cities by members OF
the league tie strike. if it succeeds. will
affect all contracts sub-let to the American
Bridge Company, which controls 60 per
cent. OF the work throughout thf country,
by general contractors q. IL, eH.pioyerL
association.
The league says that few members Of
Local No. are working for them in New
York, so that the strike wun't burt It's work
here much But for the facl that the
league left the National Association of
Structural Iron Manufacturers several
HoEthS ago al attempt would have been
made to order "a STRIFE u. much larger
scale by extending it to all he firms i'll that
association. If tho prrs,,it. strike order is
xl.. s..gt u
iron workers, and this in time " ould affect
about l0J, 600 more workers in the building
trades, who would b. thrown into involun-
tary dleness The larger strike. If such a
strike had been called, would have thrown
500 no or 600 800 idle.
The firms affected by the present strike
order include TIE j . 4. & j. NJ. Cornell Com
pany, the Cooper-Wigand Company. Milli-
ken Bros. the Remington Construction
Company, the Thompson-tterrick Company
and lowering x Garrigues, Among the
cities involved are New York, Philadelphia, +,
Pittsburg. Easton, St Louis, Chicago.
Cincinnati and Cleveland
President Buchanan was not in a tnlka-
tive mood last evening. All he would say
was: We always have won before and
We expect 10 win again. But even between
now and Saturday the Iron League can stop
the n,,ional strike by coming TO Il settle
II eut
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doubt Id to whether the strike order will
be generally oheyed. President Charles
L. Eidlitz of the employers association
said:
-Wut To see how many men will go out
At this late hour it is one thing to call a
strike and another to have tho order gen
erally obeyed. Local No. will never be
recognized.
The inside iron workers, having joined
the international union. also viii be in
voived in tie strike order. In t;.is city
before TIE present trouble began there
were Supposed to be 4,5GO members in good
standing IN the housesmitrs union 4
Number OF these are working for nom
association employers.
THO Lev Houses miths' Union of New
York. watch has signed the arbitration
agreement Of the employers slsccia -ion
has 1000 members ard the members OF the
association say :hat 500 members have
seeded from Local No. and lave signed
the arbitration agresinent Individually.
According to the two executive COM
mittee3 OF the union q number OF members
of this new union will join III the strike
tomorrow.
Tho rev union has submitted a fresh
trade agreement TO the Iron League as to
wages and hours Of labor to 20 into effect
at once. This is independent of the arbi-
tratiOn agreement and is in the hands Of
the executive committee OF the league
The wages demanded include $50 day
for constructors and finishers, $3.50 for
helpers and $50 for apprentices. with
special rates for overtime.