The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-11
TYING UP THE SHlPYARDS.
moss STRIKER A NEW YORK CIVIC
FEDERATION MAN.
500 More Men Go Out ~ shooters Island
and 1000 In Brookiyn-EmpioyeS
say They WIN Not submit 10 the DC
mand 70 Discharge AL Non-unlon Men.


say They VIII Not submit 10 the De
mand TO Discharge Al Non-tnlon Men.
The general strike In the Townsen d.
Downey shipbuilding yards. Shooters 81
and which was ordered by the Marine Trades
Council on Monday night in sympathy
with the boilcrmakers, went into effect yes
tertlay forenoon. 1t was followed by the
ordering OF another sympathetic strke
of the union boilermakers In the yards OF
the other shipbuilders and members OF the
New York Metal Trades Association who
supply ship boilers.
Wallace Downey OF the Townsend Downey
yards estimated that about $50 or 800
men went out in his yards In addition to the
400 or 500 boilermakers and shpbuilders
already on strike.
More than 1000 boilermakers went out
In Brooklyn. affecting forty-one shops In
South Brooklyn and Erie Basin.
At the Morse Iron Works and Dry Dock
Company, foot OF Fifty-sixth street, 700
men filed out OF the yard when the order
was received, most Of them hanging their
heads and appearing 10 be ashamed oil their
action. The management only the DAY
before placed these men on their honor not
TO leave. At the order Of the walking dele
gate, however. they threw down their tools
and obeyed, leaving only $50 men In the
shops.
At the works Of the John N. Robins Com
pany, Erie Basin, the 800 men employed
were not affected. The Knights OF Labor
organization has control there, and for
the present no attempt will be made, 1t Is
said, to induce that body TO cooperate In
the strike.
One hundred and fifty boilermakers en-
ployed at the W. d A. Fletcher works In
Hoboken went on strike.
So complete is the demonstration OF the
unions that all the union men are expected
TO 20 out to-day rather than face disciplin-
ing or persecution by their organizations.
Every man, according to union rules, who
refuses to obey the strike order, Is delin-
uuent. and Is afterward looked upon as
r,on-union man until he is disciplined in
way satisfactory to the unions,
The New York Metal Trades Association
headquarters, 203 Broadway. Some OF the
master shipbuilders said that the present
strike will be a serious blow to the snip
building trade and will in all probability
drive some firms out OF business.
Late in the afternoon the following state
tary Of the association
Some OF the Townsend Downey men have
gone out on strike in sympathy with the IRON :
workers who about month ago STRUCK
against the emPlSym'p. Sy 1nt co nrkas
have been ordered against several members
of the New York Metal Trades Association
In sympathy with the strikers al the i1Wn OVID
send -Downey works aud irOnworkerS have
left the employment of several members
OF the ass9chtlon ,o,d n oonsuItation
and unanimously decided that they VIII
not submit TO a demand recurring them 10
discharge al non-unioh ehpio oy,'plov r any
workman who is willing TO WORK Ihcre Is
no question Of wages involved
Mr.. Hunter supplemented this statement
by saying that some Of the firms when
have lust brought their business to pay
ing basis will probably shut down alto
re7her as a result of the strike. he also
said that the wages paid here we're higher
than those paid anyw here else.
-The workingmen themselves, he added
ARE helping to kill on the shipbuiidlne
industry here. Some Of the general de-
mands in the circular we received from
the Brotherhood Of Boilermakers and Iron
Shipbuilders are such as no employers
could grant. How could employers he
protected If they signed an agreement con-
tanning a provision that sympathetic
strike would not be considered violation
Of the agreement
Mr.. Downey said yesterday:
sThe ownsend-Downey firm has never
discriminated against union men, and we
reserve the right TO employ union or non
union men. Ne will not shut down our
wards. We will fight the strike and 60 on
filling the places OF the strikers.
The strikers have made their headquar-
iers at German Odd Fellows Hall, 70 1t.
Marks place. Francis j Mckay. business
agent OF the Brotherhood Of Bollerm akers
and Iron Shpbuilders. who IL engineering
he strike, il a member Of the Civic Fedora
ton recently organized to prevent strikes
Mckay said yesterday that he was ordering
out the boilermakers in the various yards
az fast as he could.
About forty-three yards either directly
or indirectly engaged in the shipbullding
trade, all belonging to the Metal Trades
Association are affected by the strikes.
Among the largest concerns are the Morse
Iron Works in South BROOKLYN Roach :
yards. Ninth street and the Fast River,
The Ouintard Iron Works at the foot OF
Fast Twelfth street. Fogary Bro. West
Thirty third street: W and A. Fletcher.
Hoboken: the Raab Iron Works, Twenty
sixth street South Brooklyn, and the Bur
lee Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company
Port Richmond. Staten Island
Pre- sideni smith of the New York Metal
Trades Association ssid last night
THE Marine Trades Council siulilhed ~
s.lf by ordering the strikes IN sympathy
with he DoilsTmaksrs in the TOWNSEND
Downey yards We were ark"d 10y the
council Co appoint q committee 81 nv" Ia
Arii,rats the troubl- n possibie With a
Ike committee 81 the council A. o'clocA
yesterday afternoon they lad a l-llsr from
,is agr,s'ing "a tis" proposition. Ignoring
their own PROPOSITION, they ni"' aii"feafi
aud agreed 81 order the syinis'ie''e