The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-25
TILE MAKERS In REBELLION.
A DECLARATION or INDEPEN-
DENCE Aztec LONG SUFFERING.
Hereafter All the Manufacturers VIII
Sell to Any One who Wants 10 buy,
and the Tile settlers Union May Now
SET shingles II IL Won't Set Tiles.


As the result Of what they declare Is a
concerted attempt on the part OF the In
! ternational Tile Settlers Union to throttle
the tile industry of this country, representa-
tives of the sixteen tile manufacturers OF
the United States, at a two days meeting
in this city, have drawn up what is vir-
tually a defiance OF the union one OF the
stron gest in the country,
| This defiance Is in the shape of an an
noun ,ement to the effect that hereafter
the tile manufacturers will sell their goods
| t. any tile dealer who wants them, whether
or not that dealer il on the unfair list OF
the union for failure to comply with its
demands 49,
The meeting of the tile manufacturers
at which this stand was taken was called
for the express purpose OF acting on tnls
question, because OF boycott put on the
goods OF one concern which sold tile to a
dealer in Washington with whom the local
union was having trouble, The meeting
was held at the Hotel Aston and 1t result ed
in this appeal, addressed to the public,
which was signed by all the concerns repre-
NEW YORK CITY, Sept. ~. 1904.
We, the undersigned manufacturers OF
saics. are adv sed that at the sixth annual
convention OF the lnternational Union OF
do t was placed ae nc M the tinted
on the tile manufactured by the c. Pardee
Works Of Perth AmPoy, n the reason
classed by the union as unfair" dealers,
After investigation we lind that the rharg
arises The Tact thst those %h9 Are cos asd
under working regulations that allow tile
to Compete with other materials used for the
II is the desire and aim Of the tie manu- ny.
facturers OF the United states 10 place their
within e. shs
uous home, as well as the me nsions OF the
rich, and no action Of the TIE setter VIII deter
us from selling tile to any dealer furthering
and advancing the interest OF the public and
In furtherance of this desire and aim and
to express our severe condemnation oil the
action Of the tile settlers of the United States
this declaration is made
ALHAMBRA TILE COMPANY,
AMERlcAN ENCAusTIC TILINo COMPANY,
BkAvIR FALLS Act TILE COMPANY. LIN
CAMBRIDGE TILE MANUFACTURING Con-
PANY.
(iRuEBY FAIENcE COMPANY.
THE MOSAIC TILE COMPANY.
The NATIONAL TILE COMPANY,
New JERSEY Mosaic TILE COMPANY.
NEW YORK VrrRlFIED TILE WORKS.
The OLD BRIDGE ENAMBLED BRICK AND
The ONO Tile COMPANY.
THE c. PARDEE WORKS
PRovIDESTIAL TILE COMPANY.
STAR ENCAusTIC TILE COMPANY.
TRENT TILE COMPANY. ~
The tile making industry in this country
now represents the Investment OF millions
Of capital and the employment OF thousands
Of men, yet for some time, SO the manu-
fecturers say, 1t has been at the mercy
of the union of tile settlers. Whenever q
tile dealer has refused to comply with the
unions demands in the last five years,
his name has been put on what the union
has termed the unfair list, and this list
has been sent to all the manufacturers
and the union has notified them that II
they supp lied such a dealer with gooos
a boycott would be put upon their tile and
that members Of the union Throughout
the country would refuse to handle 1t.
The Pardee company recently refused
to comply any longer with this e3action.
asserted the right to sell its product to any
body who wanted to buy, without rec
,ogni2iIg the claim of the union to be con-
sidered a parry to the contract. he boy
oott on the Pardee colrnpany--wh was
placed at St. Louis Is now teIg en-
forced throughout the United States.
Few. II any. dealers have dared TO use
its tile, except in such places as New ork,
where an effort is being made to break
away from the union.
The Partiee company appealed 10 ts
bro Their manufacturers recently and the
matter was submitted by the manufact-
urers to body of lawyers. The lawyers
advised each and every one OF the manu-
facturers that not only were the tile set
terra Habl. to indictment for conspiracy
bv reason of such hoycott, but that should
any manufacturer abide by it and refuse
his goods 10 any dealer, that dealer could
bring s,'it for money damages as we'll as
criminal proceedings for conspiracy.
Last spring and summer the union made
what re declared to be xCrbitant demands
on dealers ali over the country, and the
manufacturers haven't knownMt. whom
TO sell Manufacturers say that TIE entire
industry has been crippled.
The Tile Settlers Union has membership
of only about nine hundred men, which Is
entirely out of proportion to the amount
of work contracted for in this country
In order, however, that the labor market
should be curtailed and controlled, the union
has decreed prohibitive Initiation fee OF
$3.50, 80 that its membership shouldn't in
crease. 1t also has rule now limiting the
number Of square feet to be set as days
work thereby restricting the use OF tile
and putting the tile b,sincs in disadvan-
tageous position when in competition with
other kindred industries, so the tile men say.
They expect that the stand now taken will
have the effect of reviving an industry
that would be now in fourishing con-
dition but for the labor troubles.
As one of them said vest erday:
representing all the concerns OF this
country we can now present united front
to the union and put It up to them whether
they want to work at all or not. Under the
rule made by the international body, they
must now declare a boycott that will AFFECT
practically every piece OF tile made. II
carried out that will mean that there won't
he any tile for them TO set. We are tired
Of having the prosperity OF our business
menaced and the union can now decide
whether 1t wants to cut its own throat or
not by boycotting us ALL