The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-09
100000 WORKMEN MUST WAIT.
HUNDREDS or BUILDINGS TIED
Up ny THE TRUCkMEN.
Builders Standing by the Dealers In l.um.
Der ami other Materisls-some Big
Contracts That Have Come to .
Hait-l'nions Now Seek . Conference.

Members Of the Mason Builders Associa-
ton said yesterday that the association
was taking no action regarding the shut
down in the yards Of the members Of the
Lumber Dealers and Building Material
Dealers associations. Many Of the large
contractors have had their supplies COM
pletely cut of, and work was at stand
still on hundreds of large buildings, but
the builders were willing to wait until the
Lumber Dealers and Building Material
Dealers associations settle their trouble.
A. j. Robinson of the A. j. Robinson Com
pany, member OF the Mason Builders
Association. said to SUN reporter:
ave realize that the demands Of the
Building Material Drivers and other unions,
which caused the shut down. are utterly
unreasonable. We can wait until the unions
come to their senses and begin to act ra-
tionally"
Mr.. Robinson said that the firm had a
number Of buildings on which no work
was being done. representative OF the
Thompson-StarrettC Company said that some
OF their uptown contracts were at stand
still The Kuhn-Loeb building, in lower
tract. was at a stage when they had enough
building material on hand to complete it.
James D. Crary, secretary OF the Lumber
Dealers Association. said yesterday after
noon that the two associations we're working
in harmony They would do so until the
its demands.
Information from all parts Of the metro
poltan district he said. Shows that no
lumber for building purposes is being de-
New Jersey and Staten Island to any builders
in the boroughs Of Manhattan and The
Bronx. Their, proprietors are entirely in
sympathy with us"
1t was learned yesterday that the shut
down in the lumber yards was decided on
affect lumber for boxing or Grating lumber
for use in the city or State departments or
for the United States Government. Neither
does it affect lumber required In the con-
structon of the subway.
committee OF five was appointed by the
Board Of Building Trades yesterday to take
charge Of the trouble for the unions. The
committee will visit the headquarters OF the
Lumber Dealers and Building Material
Dealers associations at 10 Broadway to-day
to try to bring about a conference.
According to the delegates Of the board.
seventy-one independent truck owners who
employ union men have agreed to cart
building material from non-associaion
yards, beginning on Monday.
still through non-deivery Of lumber and
building materials are new hotel at Forty
second street and Broadway. the Belmont
Hotel at Forty-second street and Park
avenue. the annex to the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Building. Tw enty-third
street and Madison avenue, and many
large apartment buildings and reeadences.
About 10000 persons are likely 70 b made
Idle, and 80 600 moro may be idle II the
shutdown extends to Brooklyn.
A circular was sent to the member! Of
the Lumbar Dealers' Association Last ni1ht
to the effect that the shut down was still
effective. In it was embodied an editorial
on the situation from yesterdays SuN.
COAL WAGON I RI ERs h1KE, TOO.
A number Of GOAL wagon drivers whose
employers havs refused to grant the de-
mands OF the recently organized Coal Wagon
Drivers Union for higher wages and reoog-
milton Of the union, went on strike yester-
day On some OF the Fast Side streets
coal wagons were driven by non union men
under police protection. More drivers are
to strike to-day.