New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-01
SHUTDOWN NEARER.
Ne5o Step TOuard Ending Oeadtock
an Building Trades.

The impending general shutdown OF builuliIs
materials by the Building Material Dealers ASH
citation to end the deadlock in the building uaues
came a step nearer yesterday. delegation rep
resenting the emergency committee Of the Build
ing T-ades Employers Association and the Mason
Bull IL Association attended special meeting
Of the Building Material Dealers Association al
No. IS Broadway in the afternoon ahu ai'ei -
this written statement was given out:
The committee of the building nateria! deaters
which conferred recently with the lIlouStrisL IN
provement committee of the employers aSso 1a.
given power to tsked for IN its report l.,
dusIriai Improvement committee declared itself in
favor OF a general shutdown as oeclsI'SS p tbe
to end the building fight. when cal ed upon Dy llie
enc therefnre confirms the stand taken by their
committee that q shutdown may Dc ueSiaieu
AS to the issues Of the fight and its starting
mason builders confess themselves at sea apous 1t
Before the present strike began there was gen.
eral lack Of system III paying the laoorers among
the members Of the Mason Builders Association
the wages paid ranging from % cents to 80 cents
an hour. The inequality existed In the rates
paid to the laborers for the hours from 10 a. III
and from 10 .. m, when they were preparing
for the bricklayers in the morning and covering
up the work az night Some OF the CONTRACTORS
paid straight time for this: others paid overtime
To bring about uniforIl conditions the Mason
Builders Association March 2 posted notice
on all their contracts stating that uniform rate
of 90 hour would be paid TO Ine !aooTeIs'
and that the two hours referred TO would be pald
for as straight time. This the 1abOreTS construed
as introducing the ten hour workday and they
went strike.
The mason builders shortly afterward had a con-
ference with the General Arbitration Board OF
Mason Builders and Bricklayers, and rescinded the
notice The arbitration board then ordered the
bricklayers who were thrown idle. and the labor
ers to return to work under the old conditions
pending arbitration of all disputes on March ~
The laborers refused to return, and MADE new de-
mands for an agreement for year, by which they
were to have the eight hour workcay and get 80
cents an hour. The bricklayers then refused to
work with non-union men. which was praftlcaIiy a
sympathetic strike. The bricklayers' unions voted
TO stand by the laborers and the next step was
general demand for recognition OF the LaDorers
Protective Union. all other matters to be referred
10 arbitration. This is the present issue OF the
strike After this demand was made 1t was In
dorsed by the brcklay ers. who then received fuii
charge Of the situation from the laborers
A meeting of the Bricklayers' Arbitration Board
and the executive committee Of the striking labor
ers was held late yesterday A statement ad-
dressed TO the emergency committee OF the EN-
ployers' Association and the Mason Builders AS
ISOLATION prepared. which said
All bricklayers and iaborers will return 70 work
II you will promise to the bricklayers that your
association will have none but members OF the
enough members of said union to man the Jobs OF
the Mason Builders Association they can hire any
be submitted arbitration for a settlement all
PARTIES 10 abide BY that decision. The said arbi-
tration board is to consist of delegates of the
Rricklayers' Union of Manhattan and The Bronx
and an equal number from the Mason Builders
Association In the event OF q deadlock occurring
on any Of the questions at issue umpire Is 10 b
called. all parties to abide by his decision
This proposition is what the laborers are striking
for with a few notifications
Tho new proposition OF the executive committees
o, the bricklayers and laborers submitted q
the Mason Builders Association last night. and #
rejected.