The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-27
BUCHANAN IN A FIST FIGHT,
STORM MARS THE PEACE MISSION
or THE HOUSESMITHS HEAD.
He Dared to Speak 10 . Member Of the
ADti-Parks Iron Workers Union In the
Ashland House LObby-Parks Men
Still Talking Of . National Strike

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Ashland House LObby-rarks Men
Still Talking Of . National Strike.
The peace mission on which President
Buchanan Of the International Association
OF Structural Iron Workers is supposed to
have come to this city was forgotten tenn
porarily in row at the Ashland House
fnte Yesterday afternoon. For few min
utes there were all the outward and visible
signs of meeting OF the Housesmiths'
Union at the hotel
Buchanan finds Parks's union a sort OF
Old Man Of the Sea fastened on him by the
Kansas City convention. He can neither
get rid Of it nor can he get the Employers
Association to recognize it. He spent all
last week In an unsuccessful attempt to
effect settlement and yesterday, after an
absence of two days, returned to the Ash
land House, where he had an all day con-
ference with the international and local
executive committees of the union.
After the conference, which was stormy
one. the two committees came downstairs
to the hallway in a pugnacious mood.
A member of the new union of housesmiths
was sitting there. One OF the local COM
mitteemen went to him.
What in hell do you want to speak to
that scab for?" inquired Jack McAuliffe, a
Hoboken member Of the local executive
committee
The other man retorted and then Blu
chanan went to speak to the man on the
settee. McAuliffe demanded loudly if
Buchanan was going to talk to a scab
too.
You mind your own business snarled
Buchanan over his shoulder.
McAuliffe and Charles Massey, ono of the
four walking delegates of whom Parks
was the head. went into the barroom. When
they came back McAuliife said with a
sneering laugh
my question:"
Buchanan walked up to him and. shak-
ing his finger an inch from MoAuliFe's
$50 you're looking for trouble. hey?
know you, you bag of wind
Buchanan. The big fist only grazed
Buchanans jaw, and Buchanan, Who il
big man. too, made rush.
j, W. Johnston, the international score
tary, who knocked Buchanan down five
or six months ago. got between the two
men. The international committeeman
held Buchanan forc.bly back, while the
local committee did the same for McAulifre
The two struggled desperately to reach each
other and Trunks and chairs were over
turned crowd gathered at the end of the
hallway to see the fight. but the two men
were kept apart
will you just step outside five minutes
with me?' asked McAulfe of Buchanan
Tho latter. throwing of his coat, said he
would, but before the men could reach
each other on the sidewalk the two com.
mittees caught them again and the same
struggle was repeated, Finally the men
We're forced back into the Ashland House
by separate doors
1t was announced that telephone COM
nuncGtion had been established between
the committees and the Iron League. Sec
rotary Johnston said that by Monday they
expected to hear from the league about
arranging conference. He said that if a
set cement Is not reached by which Parks's
union will be recognized an international
strike will be ordered.