New-York tribune., 1904-08-13
BOSSES RESTRAIN TRADE
so BUILDERS MEN say
Building Trades Employers Decide
on Drastic 1ctiOH.

The building troubles reached a stage yes
terday when the board of governors OF the
Building Trades Employers Association decided
that special action WAS necessary. The BOARD
held an unusually long meeting al the Buiidlhs
Trades Club. resulting In a definite policy being
decided on which viii include stronger meas
ures than have been hitherto used None OF
the employers. however, would say that the
open shop was part of the plan.
At the time the employers were meeting lhe
Building Trades Alliance vas in session az
Hreyocri Hall After the meeting the announce
meut vas made that the question of the legality
OF the Building Trades Employers Association
would be taken to the courts and that preliml-
nary action 20 this end had been taken.
James J. DAILY. chairman OF the press commit
tee Of the Alliance. issued a statement in refer
enoe to the procedure TO be taken in which the
struggle Of last year until the arbitration agree
ment was adopted was reviewed. He said that
the results Of the plan had been far from salts
factory 20 the organizations involved, and
charged that he Employers Association had first
broken the arbitration agreement, and had or
dered the present lockout after the General Ar
bitration Board had decided that 1t had juris-
diction IN the Fuller strikes the subway
strikes The statement then continued in part:
II must be understood that the Employers As
sociation IS q corporation which controls abso-
lutely all the building trade operations OF It's sixty
members. These members are associations or build
in particular lines. and are under the eontrol
building Trades Employers Association, which
eNactE from those various IneInbers an i I 8
that the Members viii take no action IN labor maj man
unless directed by the corporation. and VIII
act IN all matters where employers are concerned
by direction OF the corporation
An action has been begun this day by James J.
119 S6es o5 s FmpioTers Associaton which action
has for its object the securing of 1GG1cla zee es
ment IS valid and binding and if so. why it should
n not ,st oe actoa determination from the
10 whether the Employers Trust. consisting OF me
building Trades Employers Association as con.
rolling body OF some sixty or seventy builders
associations as members. is legal combinaion or
by the courts and which have been heid 10 pe
psS 3rdTentiy held should be dissolved as
being IN, restraint OF trade ana against puoHo
policy.
Counsel for DAILY said later:
Summons was served on Mr. Charles L. Eidlitz.
IN the case which Mr. DAILY has brought The
summons was served this afternoon by one of my
under the Northern Securities decision.
On Monday we will make our Inotion riiIai I0T Inc
Trades Employers Associations to produce the COM
panys hooks and minutes before refeiee' ana
Interesting developments are looked Tor
Mr.. Fidltz left the meeting of the board Of
governors OF the employers association early,
before the statement given out Louis
Harding chairman of the press committee OF the
employers association said when told OF the
action OF the alliance that the Building Trades
Fulployers' Association was IN no sense cor
poration and had no charter. Regarding the
new policy Of the board of governors, he said;
IN longer the lockout lasts through the obstlnacy
Of the unions the stronger our measure Will be.
J. Hatzel, another member of the press com
mittee, said that the lockout had been sus-
Fended on -four Brooklyn schools, and the
walking delegates of the alliance AT once or
dered the men on strike. The lockout had also
been suspended several schools in Man
hat Including
II was said at the District Attorneys office in
Mr. Jeron1e's absence yesterday that no inNestl-
CATION had been started 10 ascertain II labor
leaders engaged in the present building trades
war are following the example OF sam" Parks,
II there an attempt TO return 10 the
graft system Of ordering strikes.