New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-04
SAN" PARKS STOPS WORK
TIE-UP STILL. UNBROKEN
Strike Of Steamftters Helps to
Stop Building Operations.

Al the moment when rosy prospect III the
building trades tie-up sighted by the SAN
guine employers, brand new strike yesterday
tied up the whole situation tighter than ever.
Instead OF fifteen hundred housesTniths, recruit
ed from the adjoining cities, we'll as from the
ranks Of the dissatisfied members Of Sam
Parkss union, appearing for work yesterday
morning. as had been confidently predicted
bare handful appeared and their presence was
rendered useless by the unexpected strike Of the
fifteen hundred steam filters and helpers. with
out whose assistance building except in it's
earliest stages is impossible. Not only were
the members of the Employers Association thus
affected but even the George Z. Fuller Con
struction Company. which was supposed to have
adjusted its difficulties. was also a sufferer.
This new strike is not however, a raInification
Of the long drawn out conflict. It is an
related strike for additional wages in the steam
filters trade alone. although it is a fact worthy
( Of note that the steamftters have not signed
the arbitration agreement. None the less, the
indications yesterday served to emphasize the
disagreeable fact that Sam" Parks still exer-
cises manifest control over the situation The
employers had issued an ultimatum in the shape
! OF an announcement that if their overtures
were rejected they would start work. sam
Parks met this by securing the absolute rejec
| ton cf the overtures. and the efforts of the
employers to start work were futile in the
/ NiVliiS- moreover, Wnlle Iney were gGIIlnS C.4lS
few score Of housesmths. where they had
/ expected at least one thousand Parks was call
ing off the men of his union at work on several
buildings where J. NJ. Cornell. OF the Iron
| League, was at work. and threatened 20 carry
the war over to Jersey to-day
To further increase the bIueness of the at
n2osphere in the employers ranks, II learned
that if present indications held several unions
which had accepted and signed the arbitration
f MS @,i+ ~,
most important indication of this was a split
among the United Portable Safety Engineers
who were expelled from the United Board for
their action. Parks said yesterday. and his
statement was confirmed by others, that there
VIII be attempt to rescind this action on
Saturday night In the face of this rather dis
heartening situation, L. K. Prince the official
spokesman of the employers, confined his COM
nents yesterday to the remark:
We await the outcome with perfect con
fdence."
DEMANDS FOR INCREASED PAY
The strike of the staamftters arose as a re-
suit Of the refusal of the employers to accede to
q demand for an increase of wages which
amounted 10 ST a day for the filters and 20 cents
for the helpers. make the respective wages
/ s. and So for the two branches. The agreement
annually made between employers and unions
| X, 0
/ employers tc e7eet the demands Of their men
set the waassaE delegates at their -eongeniaI
work yesterday.
The men were called out on every big build
ing where work was going on in New-Y York City
and adjacent parts of Jersey. There are 500
helpers and 7J0 steamfftters affected. Among
the big buildings where work has been stopped
are all the jobs Of the George A. Fuller Con
struction Company. Others are the new Astor
Hotel, at Forty-ffth-st. and Broadway; the
Lyric Theatre. at Forty-second-st. and Broad
way; the Clark house. at Seventy -seventh-st.
and Fifth-ave. the Manhattan Life and the
Mutual Life buildings, in lower Broadway; the
Metropolitan Life. at Twenty -third-st- and
Fourth-ave. and the Wall Street Exchange and
Battery Place buildings.
According 10 the delegates of the unions, the
employers were served with notice on February
1 of this year that on August l. when the gree
nent ceaaed. demands would be made for an in
crease Of the filters wages. The helpers we're
offered an increase to 50 80 a day and the filters
were told to sign the employers plan Of arbi-
tration, and then the question could be crb-
trated Both unions declined this offer ard
called out their men. AS the master steam
filters are members of the Building Trades En-
ployers Association they demanded thar the
plan Of arbitration be signed by the union.
At the meeting of the United Board of Build
ing Trades in Brevoort Hall yesterday. il was
decided TO participate IN the Labor Day parade.
and the remaining unions expect to have $4,000
men in line sam" Parks presided until ne
was unexpectedly called away TO bail out two
members of his entertainment committee who
had been arrested for fighting in an uptown
saloon. The meeting adjourned at his de-
parture. Before departing. Parks said that he
would pull three jobs in Jersey to-day. TWO
Of J. B Cornelr5 jobs and OF Milliken
Brothers.
UNIONS TO RETURN TO THE FOLD.
William Fyfe. the secretary Of the board. says
the report IS current that three unions which
have signed the employers plan Of arbitration
and which were expelled from the board for so
doing are getting ready 20 return. They are
the United Portable Safety Engineers the
Brotherhood OF Electrical Workers and the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and JoineTs. The
latter union was composed Of three sections. OF
which only the locals in Manhattan and The
Bronx signed the plan. TIL Jse IN Brooklyn and
Queens did not sign II. All three have now
been united under one head. and It is consid-
cred likely that the vote approving the plan OF
arbitration will be rescinded
There was an important meeting Of the strike
committee of the Iron League. the employers
organization that is fighting sam Parxs's
housesIniths at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yester-
day. This meeting held for the purpose OF
discussing ways and means 20 obtain men TO
replace the strikers. c. Z. Cheney, secretary OF
the league made a brief explanation OF the
reasons for the failure Of the attempt to resume
work yesterday with sufficient number OF
men. lie said:
The time was so short 20 take action after we
had heard Of the refusal OF the hOusesrni tbs 70
sign that II win probably be some days before We
some wedding Of the many applications. but