Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-16
UNITE FOR WAR on UNIONS
New York and Brooklyn Building Employers
Form Strong Organizations
POWER OF LABOR 10 TO BE BROKEN
Mems Combines Declared Tyrannical
Bodies which Cypress Peaceful
workers and strive 90 Run
Business by Violence.

NEW YORK. May 15.-The first steps
towards enecting a general organization OF
employers in the building trades to offer
united resistance TO the demands of labor
unions were taken tonight at meetings held
in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The Manhattan meeting was held at the
Building Trades club, 700 employers being
present Overflow meetings were held in
the committee rooms Of the club.
Warren NJ. C~onnover, chairman of the
board Of governors Of the Building Trades
association, presided.
Decent workmen Must Rise.
The meeting. was private, and at its close
the following statement was given out as
the sentiment. OF the various speakers:
The complete paralysis of the building in
p~onsiDle combinations acting through a
t~yrannical board Of walking delegates, or
business agents, which demand prompt and
have the welfare OF our great city at hearS.
II is time the decent and order-loving
mechanic asserts himself and de1es the
arbitrary demagogue who ties his hands
and browns his voice. 49,
The delegate is. a parasite on the body
polite to be exterminated.
II was pointed out that this is not a ques-
ton of wages or hours, but a question Of
whether irresponsible bodies of men are to
employer and In so doing make 1t impos-
sible for him to execute his contracts and
dlscharge the responsibilities Whlch ne as
sumes. -
The extremes to- which the unions have
gone and the manner in which they have
freely broken contracts with their employ
ers have alienated from them the sympathy
of the public.
The public now looks TO. the employers 70
take the initiative and TO use every lawful
method to destroy the Goliath whom lack
| OF OnDOBltlOn haR so nmhOlOenHd that IL
throttles this great city without hesitation
ana without compunction.
The speakers also called on police and
magistrates TO perform their duties un-
ninchingiy. They pointed out the failure OF
justice in the past to punish violence, the
damage to property and the murders COM
mitted in the name Of labor which have
gone unpublished. They asked that political
ambition should not be permitted to per-
vert justice. The district attorney was
called on to use the machinery at his COM
mand and prosecute with all severity the
blackmailers which this pernicious system
has fostered and thus to show to the men
how they are misrepresented and their con-
hdence betrayed. ~
By unaniomous vote the following com.
mittee was appointed to devise ways and
means in the futures:
Charles T. Willis, contractor; Otto NJ
Eidlitz, contractor and president of thC
Mason Builders association; James r
Strong, president of the Electrical Contrac,
tors association; Lewis A. Harding, chair
man OF the Master Carpenters association
and George A. Jeuists president of the mas
ter carpenters in weschester oun
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Resolution h Adopted.
The following resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, The present condition OF thu
building industries makes 1T imperative
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business, resulting from strikes Or lock
outs IN the hStildins, trades be IT,
of the Building Trades association ar
range at once for d Meeting OF the execu
ton Of the Building Trades, to devise way
and means for the creation of a centra
body of employers
This committee will be called togethe
next Tuesday. kilograms were receive
from similar committees in Chicago. 81
Louis, P%ittsburg, Boston and Washington
In Brooklyn 100 employers met an
formed the Employers League of the Boz
ough OF Brc oklyn. 1t, was resolved to per
NIT no interference with business by an
individuals or organizations and that n
walking delegates should be permitted I
J enter any shop during working hours
Oficers were elected and a board of twent
trustees to form a plan Of campaign TO en-
force the principles of the organization ar
devise means to combat the labor unions
A special session of the conciliatio
committee of the local Civic Federatio
was held, It is understood, for the pufpos
Of comforting with representatives of val
ious labor organizations in the city with re
gard to pending trouble. The conciliatio
committee held conferences with the rive
: committees Of rival carpenters organizes
ton, at which 1t was said that actio
was being taken looking to a union of tn
two organizations. -