The sun., 1903-03-05
Observation-Disclosures
v,JKyyG DELEGATE CUSTODIAN
ms THE PEACE OF NEW YORK.
safe company Saw Him and Hired High.
priced Union Idlcrs to SIT by while Its
>on.lnion Experts W0rked-when IL
stopped That, Its Men We're Mobbed.

In
,b., one Seth Low is the Mayor OF New
york and that under the law he In the towns
ios- But the bbard-Rodman-Ely Safe
Company begins TO think that 1t knows
better.
I, i beginning TO think that Mccarthy
i. boss. II has already had Mccarthy
,,emonstrate. with vivid illustrations, that
no !. bigger than the law and almost akin
20 Divine Providence.
Nh, /. Mccarthy The following tele-
,houa conversation. which was held over
,o wire running into the HibbardR Rodman-
tr, safe Company's Office at Murray street
s,j Broadway about three weeks ago.
l,,.ps 10 answer the question.
Voice want TO talk to the head OF this
concern.
n,r want, to talk to you.
MIR Graiton-Who is this?
Tho Noicc-This is Mccarthy.
Mr. Grafton-Whst can We do for you sir,
The Noice-This IL Mccarthy. the business
agent Of the Iron Workers Union. uong
pause "
business with you, sir.
The voice-You don't, heyi Well just
wanted TO tell you that I've stopped that Job
Of yours at the Ansonia. Before you begin
snv work In this town again you want to see
Mccarthy! Good-by.
This was not the first experience the safe
comnany has had With Mccarthy. He
anpeared in the field of their vision several
months ago. when they first began putting
in the fittings OF the United States Mortgage
and Trust Company's offices on the ground
floor OF the Ansonia apartment house at
Broadway and Seventy-second street.
The Hibbard- -Rodman-Ely Safe Com
panv is allied with the Taylor Iron and
Steel Company Of Plainheld. The steel
company manufactures the manganese
steel which is put into the safes. Both
companies are under the same manage
ment. The shops at Plainfeld are open
shops" Some Of the men In them are
union men and some are not. All get the
came wages for the same work and there
has never been any disturbance because
any Of the employees were not satisfied
with tho conditions under which they were
working. Indeed. the utmost good nature
has prevailed. as. for instance. in the great
machinists strike OF two years ago.
Manag er Grafton was aware then Of the
general movement to induce the employ
ers Of machinists to reduce the hours OF
labor from sixty hours week TO hfty-four
without a reduction Of pay. The workers
In the Taylor Iron and Steel Company
are, TO an extent, specialists. and the com
pany did not want to have any trouble
MN them. Mr.. Grafton posted notices
making the reduction OF hours voluntarily.
The Taylor works were not affected by the
strike, nor was there any trouble there
about the other demands for concessions
on which the strike elsewhere was based.
When the safe company installs vaults
and safes here OF in other cities, as 1t has
been doing for the United States Mortgage
men from Plaintied TO do the work. The
first crew Of men sent to the Ansonia from
Plainfield was quite small-a foreman and
five or ak men. 49,,
They had been at work but . little time
when Mccarthy appeared. He made ora;
ton TO the trust company officials and told
them that they must stop tho putting
in Of fittings tainted by the hands OF non.
union men The trust company asked
Mr.. Grafton to fx things, please. Mr.
Grafton did Just az Mccarthy said. And
this was what McCarthy's orders amounted
to:
AN iron or steel work must be done
bv union men. The mere fact that the
he done by men In our union doesn Z affect
the main issue. That's your fault FOR
using il. But as a special concession,
We will let you do the work with your fore
man and your own men, provided that you
hire also union foreman at 81 day and
own az 50 a day. And your foreman must
not give any orders TO any of the work.
men He must tell the union foreman
what TO say and when to say 1t.
The safe company groaned, but the
trust company didn't want TO be bothered, /,
and the sociologists Of the upper West
Side had the happy privilege OF seeing
the union crew and foreman. drawing alb
surdy high wages sitting around watch
ing the Plainfeld men do the work.
OF course the union foreman had to do
a little something for his money. Every
time the Plainfield foreman wanted to
direct the men he whispered the order 70
the union foreman who beloved IL at
them. After awhile Mccarthy raised the
union crews wages 70 ~ and ~ q day.
The safe company paid them.
But when the work was much farther
advanced, about three weeks ago, II came
time 20 put in the big manganese steel
vaults The trust company was not quite
% solicitous thon about Mccarthy. In
fact. one day when he came In and called
out q crew OF men who were doing some
interior fittings in the of1ces, the officers
went no far a. 70 20 out and hire non
union crew Of fnishers 70 complete the
job,
and when the safe people ventured TO say
that they did not care To have their skilled
workincn put IN the big vaults under the
sppervi-ion of a gang of Incompetent
highly paid loafers, the trust company told
them somewhat Tegretfully To 90 ahead
In" hrst crew that came over from Plain
teli was met by Mccarthy NJ lunch time.
"" poured honey words into their ears.
iou can GET easier work said he. 'N
herrcr pay, right down here In the subway.
uy.u wil pnly apply for II backed by my
ree,inmrndstion II YOU stay here you
w.l 81 hut. n. union msrl are talking
ugy auYut you already
10 gang luii Il applied Tor Subway
WYlk Earl man vas told io 90 join the
....r lhs union T'-qulf.-d eanh man Ia
l4 4p a forfeit ~ 90 before u would con
..iar hlr Application The ns.si went bach
. lei al" oinIsahy snd asksd ~ IL 70
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