New-York tribune., 1904-08-08
DOWN WITH ARBITRATION
PURPOSE OF THE UNIONS.
The brotherhood of Painters 4 ga'nst
Return of Graft System.

The lockout in the building trades which be-
gins to-day Is believed to be the starting OF
2 war between the Building Trades Employers
/ Association and the Building Trades Alliance
which may last many weeks The emergency
committee Of the Building Trades Employers
Association viii meet to-day at the Building
Trades Club and the alliance will have
special meeting in Peper's Hall to make special
preparations for the fight.
Few of the delegates Of the Building Trades
Alliance were at the Central Federated Union
yesterday though they are usually nearly all
there Matthew McConve, business agent or
the Safety Association of Engineers an All
ance union said yesterday that the aiiidllce
wanted the arbitration agreement done away
with. He continued;
we never wanted the arbitration agreement
II was forced on us. and we will fight to a finish
against it, When the employers forced it on us
they gave us to understand that should get
a fair show in case any troubles came to be
arbtrated, but there was only one case in which
the decision was not in favor of the employers
That decision was in reference to grievance
of the woodworkers
Delegates of the Brotherhood of Painters said
that they were not satisfied with the proceedings
ct the Cooper Union meeting on Saturday night
which was supposed to end in the adoption of a
resolution amalgamating the Brotherhood OF
Painters and the Amalgamated Painters So
cety.
John Kilgus business agent of the Brother
hood Of Painters who declared the strike off at
the Nelson & Bradley contracts last week. said
this evening:
81 speak for the great majority of the MEM
bels of the Brotherhood when say that we will
OBSERVE the arbitration agreement and have
nothing to do with the Amalgamated Society.
The meeting on Saturday night was called un-
Ia,
which the brotherhood does not belong to ana
never will belong to. The meeting packed
one. There We're very few Brotherhood men
there and the vote was a farce. as it was prac-
ticaly a vote by the Amalgamated Painters
Society. \ few radical members may want To
join the Amagemated Painters Society, but the
great bulk Of the union does not want to Join It.
and won't join it. We don't want 10 have
anything 10 do with an organization which will
restore the old graft system or have anything
10 do with graft
The Plasterers' Union on Saturday night de-
cided TO order strikes on several buildings to
head off the lockout. These buildings include the
Metropolitan Life Annex. Twenty-third st. and
Fourth-ave.. and buildings at sixtieth-st. and
T1ifth-ave. and Twenty and Broadway
There Will he ., 500 plasterers locked ont besides
those 500 who viii he on strike. 1t is believed
that the strikers contemplate n demand for an
increase Of wages before they declare their
strikes Off
1t was learned Yesterday that tho Anal
gamated Painters Society became first inoense1
against the brotherhood Of Painters because
the Central Federated Union made a demand
that the Amalgamatei painters who we're AZ
work in the subway be discharged, as their
union was not in the Central Federated Union.
The demand was obcyel 10y the contractors FOR
the uainting Holhrooi1 Caho. & Rollins.
The question of ths strike i'm tho subway was
not brought up at yesterdays meeting oS the
Central Federated Union. and there was
nota bic absence Of delegates from the Building
Trades The Brooklyn Central Labor Union
asked for financial aii FL "A letter which de-
clared that Hbcraluy to the members I'm distress
had left its funds shor..