The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-29
FULLER co. HAS MADE PEACE.
To SIGN AN AGREEMENT WITH
THE BUILDING ONIONS TO-DlY
That VIII Send 10000 Men Back to Work
Work OF Sub-COntractOrs VINO Won't
Come In to BE Taken Up by the Com.
pany-GencraI Peace Seems Far or.


Conferences which have been going on
for several days between the George A.
Fuller Company and the unions in the
building trades, in which the Cancellation
committee of the Civic Federation has
taken part, have resulted, 70 1t was stated
Yesterday, in a plan OF arbitration being
adopted by which all the men who are now
Idle on the contracts Of the Fuller COM
panv may return to work this week An
agreement between the company and the
Unions will be signed to-day and it is ex-
pected that 10000 persons employed on
the different contracts Of the Fuller COM
pany will 60 to work tomorrow or the
next day
A good deal OF the work Of the Fuller
company is sublet to contractors who arc
members of the Building Trades Employers
Association. Should these sub-contractors
refuse to resume work. 1t is said, the
Fuller company will take the contracts
in hand itself. The plan of arbitration
adopted ia said to be similar in effect to
tina, Of the Building Trades Employers
Association. Should this be the case its
adoption may lead to an earlier conclusion
or the fight bet wcen the association and the
building trades unions than might other
wise be expected. Details of the plan were
Withheld from reporters yesterday
Judging from meeting held last evening
al Fifty-fourth street and Eighth avenue
me Building Trades Employers Associa-
ton and the unions are not likely to come
to terms soon. 1t was expected that w. H.
Farley, James p. Archibald and f. A. Moi
fe,t representing the labor contingent of
the Civic Federation's Cancellation commit
tee, would attend this meeting to present
the federation's plan Of an arbitration
conference preparatory to resuming work
For some unexplained reason the represen-
tatives of the Civic Federation did not at
tend These unions were represented:
White Stone Association of Marble Polish
ers Plain and Ornamental Plasterers. Mosaic
and Encaustic Tile. Layers. Amalgam ated
tarrcntcrs' Society, brotherhood Of Painters.
,ers saiamander Association of Pipe. and
sr Rsanes haPsE sae SOL
,I,tv. the Metal Lnhers and the Com
,ac, ] ahor Club OF Marble Cutters Helpers.
James Mason, who presided, said that
~ & proposition made by the unions 10
IT. employers individually, asking them to
restore the conditions existing prior to
tie lock -out, the unions to consider any
r|sN OF arDltrdIlon WnlCn may DE SuDfnlt-
itl to them. Reports from the unions
vsre to the effect that In every case the
employers refused to consider this. The
{, lowing statement was made after the
meeting:
Inasmuch as the labor organizations have
not received the cor, consideratiop due them
4 ihs as.srf.nt n;a stand taken 5y tho Build;
Of the organizations propose to call mass
meeting tp give the public the truthful and
subject to the call Of the chairman after each
organizatio takes UP the matter and reports
officially on it.
Delegates who were seen after the meet
ing said that they did not think the unions
would accept the plan OF the Civic Fedora
ton now. James Fitzgerald delegate OF the
Marble Workers, said.
The employers have not been candid
with the unions. II they had been. when
they heard Of alleged cases Of extortion
they should have notified the unions and
the unions would have at once acted on
these cases. There was no warrant for
the shut-down. It was not In any way
Justified by the conditions and wa. GER
sinly not the best way Of bringing Tout
permanent peace between the unions and
the employer"
-Four branches OF the Marble Workers
Union will bold meeting in Murray Hill
1.yceum on Thursday night to discuss the
situation. It was stated Ia st night that
several more unions In addition to the Tile
Layers' and He lpers' unions had agreed
10 accept the plan of the Civic Federation,
but the unions were not named.