New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-07
BUILDING STRIKE ENDS.
WORK TO Start TO-DAY.
Strikers 4ccept arbitration They
Had Tacicc Refused.

After refusing twice to obey the orders OF their
own accredited representative TO return TO
work pending arbitration Of all disputes, the
bricklayers and laborers capitulated yesterday
and declared the building strike of pending the
arbitration OF au disputes. The strikers Will re-
port FOR work to-day on all the contracts Of The
members OF the Mason Builders Association.
Before this action taken several confer
ences were neld. a meeting OF the genera! ar
btration board Of the Building Trades Employ
ers' Association was held in the Building
Trades Club 1t ] n. m. at which members Of the
arbitration board Of the bricllayers concurrcd
In resolution shat the b-icllayers and labor
ers return TO work under the conditions that
obtained on the signing OF the general arbitra-
tion plan. pending the immediate adjustment
by arbitration OF the questions in dispute.
Pending the arbitration. overtime work is
to he done or work done on Saturday after
Moons.
The representatives. Of the bricklaycrs on the
Joint arbitration board Of the Mason Builders
Association and the hricklayers unions prom
ised 10 do their best TO get the strikers to accept
these terms. They went to n meeting Of the
striking laborers in Curry's Hall and urged the
strike leaders TO accept them. They prevailed.
President Rooney Of the Laborers' Protective
Union then issued orders 10 all its members TO
report for work to-day the contracts Of
members OF the Mason Builders Association.
The borough board Of The b-iclllayers' unions
was Informed Of this action at its 'hea dduarters
One-hundred-aad-sixth-st and Third-ave. As
the bricklayers had no grievance Of their own,
but were supporting the laborers. similar action
was taken
The joint arbitration board Of the Mason
Builders Association and the bricklayers' unions
win meet to-day to arhtrate the points in dis
pute
The emergency committee OF the Building
T-ades Employers Association ratified the ac-
tion ot the general arbitration board President
Charles l. Eidlitz of the Employers Association
said last evening:
The action Of the strikers is 4 victory ~ The
arbitration agreement am more than pleased
~ the result. and believe that ii VIII be a sccd
building season
Delegate Nnligau. OF local union No. 81 o.
the bricklaye~s member of the borough
board said yesterday that on May the local
unions Of l1-lclzlayars would abide by the reso-
luton passed by the convention II Tie juterna-
tionsl union i'm reference To the nr"prootng
which goes into effect in this '.ty ON May l.
This resolution is that The Dr!Cklayers VIII work
FOR amy contra rtor doing hreprooilnS v no abldeS
ilv Union conditions Hitherto "a clause in the
trade agreement ot the unions provided tnat
The mason builders only could contract for this
work. and that it could not be sUhlet The
[eAK-T York unions voted against the resolution.
The laboTers appeared 70 think tnat the reso-
luton os inc General Arbitration Board was
tho others only in fixing the conditions FOR their
return ~ a. earlier date. but that. the en-
DIoyers say. Is a distinction without differ
ence.