New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-17
MORE HOUSEWIVES QUIT.
Laborcrs IN Places of Strikers Is
Saufcd bV IdlerS.

There was no indication yesterday on the part
81 the striking hricklayers and laborers of weak
enng, ana the strike Tor 4 more housesmiths
out Of work on number OF buildings where the
iron beams were three stories above the brick
work. This is the legal limit under the building
LAW. The result was that very few housesmths
were working i'm any part of Manhattan OF The
bronx
The members Of the building Trades Employ
,r-' AS. .iation wanted yesterday TO he under
stood as fayorinE peace and 10 he against the
open shop except as a last resort. They say that
IL the open shop comes u will he entirely the
fault OF the unions Last night the following
statement was issued by the employers asso-
citation:
that all business operations in New-York are aeain
10 nc stopped are utterly absurd. as neither enl-
less. The present msuuderstaadng with the ma
sons lahorers. which has caused the enforced idle
the adjustment II Just s5Ir temporary differe7ces
ed TIE employers IN the building trades are neither
trouble with the unions Il IS their serious rgrpose
- I'Ilesl tl- animation pan anl'T g.'h m ne ne
ll-n ln Ne"-hoIA normal and prosperous 1ondi-
ZION iu the building business.
establish the open shop policy On NeN-lcrk The
-be-a IS no 5rs.- 10 5isf-irb r,rezt ,or5tiors by
+har comes ID win he forced ur6n thn rnTIoyre as
last after the arbitration policy has failed.
We believe that the common sense 81 both ON
rloyers and vurkrncn VIII. 81 the light - rost
-r-iorrCS. further serious disturbance Of
setfled conditions. and that any and an minor
differences thn- may arise VIII be settled D a calm
and reasonable manner. provided fpr in TIC
arbitration agreement The Interests Il the city.
Interests Of the employers and the int rests ~
r-o men al demand harmonious relations and
steady work instead = another summer OF fight
irE and stlE-1t-ou.
r Finn. chairman of the executive committee
Of the bricklayers' unions was inclined TO criti-
else the bricklayers' laborers severely for not
returning 70 work after the Mason Builders
Association had Withdrawn ifs notice restrict
ing the overtime He said:
The L.al,o-ers' Protective Union made biz mis-
take when n had the chance of recognition as 4
union. The proposition that the laborcrs return
10 work and that The jout arbitration board of the
Mason Builders Association and the bricklayers
unions arlifrare all their grievances on March 5
was recognition Of a union in unsklCd trade.
Tha laborers have now lost that chance. There
,-n-a three mistake uaEe. First the mason build
e-g made mistake hy restricting tho overtime. but
admitted mistake and rescinGel their action.
h-FrkIavere MADE mistake Ia striking in EiU-
n1~a~s made a great mistake in not returning Z
work and thus getting a chance OF recognition
~ rhafr union. II rs Impossible 20 say now what
NAV happen. end the situation is perpleNing and
serious.
T-iffv excavators who were employed yester-
a,,- as laborers a. the 71st Regiment Arrnory,
T-ourth-ave. between Thirty-third and Thirty
fourtb sts. were attacked by mob OF one
| hundred striking laborers IN the afternoon with
brickbats and stones and chased from the
/ building No police We're around, and some OF
/ tfa men 7-ere nurt. Due of the flying workers
/ sustained severe coutusions about the head.
! There were 40 arrests.