New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-17
SERIOUS BLOW TO PARKS.
Failure in Nezcark May Menace HIS
PoTer.
SITUATION MUCH CLEARED.

The failure of Sam" Parks to force strike
of ironworkers in Newark on Saturday is con-
sidered by many to be a serious blow to his power
as walking delegate.
According TO the programme of Parks, to-day or
tomorrow he is TO order strikes throughout the
country against the structural iron firms OF the
]. B. & j. NJ. Cornell Company Milliken Brothers
and the Cooper Wiegand Company in the different
cities where they have contracts. Members of
unions affiliated with the board of representatives
who were seen yesterday said that they did not
take much stock in this threat. delegate of one
of the unions said:
The contracts of the firms in these cities out
side of New-York do not affect the situation very
much They undertake these contracts merely to
oblige their clients, and strikes in these cities
against them would affect the situation very little
Parks has about reached his limit He failed to call
out the iron workers in Newark, and as to his
bluff of ordering mora strikes in this city, any one
who knows the situation here knows that he has
no men to order out, the shutdown still con-
tinues
The general impression yesterday of members OF
the board of representatives OF the building trades
OF New-York and fits vicinity. which is composed
of the unions that have signed the arbitration
agreement of the Employers Association. was that
the formal recognition of their board last week
by the Employers Association would do much TO
clarity the situation in the present building trouble
On account OF the fact that the shutdown in the
building trades was really fight directed against
of the new board is regarded as important They
look on it as concession to their organization by
the Employers Association, especially as the board
of governors Of the association decided to issue
cards to the members of the board of representa-
tives I'm order that they might be identified as
agents of their respecives unions in entering build
ings the contracts for which held by members
of the Employers Association.
The walking delegates cannot under the aroitra-
ton agreement order sympathetic strikes, and
do mt
want to be arbitrator and never did AS to sym
pathetic strikes Michael Stanton, of the Electrical
Workers Union. a member of the Board OF Rep
resentatives, said yesterday:
II believe il was all the better that walking
delegates should not have the power to order SYM
have been ordered in the past for very frivolous
reasons and the walking delegates very seldom
have acted arbitrators. and do not want partic-
ularly 10 be such
AS to the effect OF the recognition OF the new
Board Of Representatives by the Employers Asso-
citation. he said:
II glad that the employers have gone off,
cialIy record In this matter. It places the
matter beyond all question. I may say that the
organization represent would not have signed the
arbitration agreement if it had not been understood
that the walking delegates were to be regarded as
the agents of the unions in all grievances dis
putes
THINKS TROUBLE WILL SOON END
Delegate Stanton of the belief that the pres
ent trouble in the building trades would soon end.
1t could not last much longer. most of the
unions in the skilled trades had signed the
arbitration agreement. The unions which have
signed the arbitration agreement and repre-
scented in the Board Of Representatives are the
following: Plain and Ornamental Operative Plas-
terers' Society, District Council United Brother
hood of Carpenters. Brotherhood of Painters. Flee
trical Workers Union. Mosaic and Encaustic Tile
Layers Union. Tile Layers Helpers Union, Mo-
sale Workers Assoca ton. Amalgamated Wood
Workers. Amalgamated Painters and Decorators
of New-York, New-York Wood Carvers and Mod
elers' Union United Portable, Hosting and Safety
Engineers Union; Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers'
Union. two locals; Cement Masons' Union, Marble
Industry. four unions; United Uphoisterers of New
York Modellers League OF America, Plumbers
and Gas Filters Union.
The Portable Hosting and Safety Engineers
Union. which is in the foregoing list, FIRST signed
the arbitration agreement, and then rescinded its
action. Its members still at work, however,
and the agreement is still in the hands of the
employers association. Many of its members are
favor of continuing at work.
The delegate of the Brewery Workers Associa-
ton at yesterdays meeting of the Central FEEDER
ated Union denied statements which had appeared
that the brewery workers were being driven out of
work through the effects OF the trouble in the
building trades, He said that In cases men
working four days instead of six, but they
were not making any objection, and all the men
at work.