New-York tribune., 1904-08-21
ALL UNIONS TO STRIKE,
ALLIANCES NEXT MOVE.
That Action Erpected-Employer
to Haze Stiff. Fight.

The indications of yesterday were that when
the members of the Building Trades Employers
Association resume work tomorrow they will
have q stiff fight on their hands. A committee
OF the Building Trades Alliance received two
-ebuns from the employers association yester-
day. and a meeting of the alliance is to be held
to-ncr-ow at which Il is believed strikes will be
ordered by all its unions.
The Building Trades Alliance held a meeting
yesterday forenoon az Breyoort Hall to prepare
for tomorrow. None OF the delegates would
Say what e anything, done. James J. Daily,
chairman OF the press committee. said:
We are standiag pat That is all the news
have" -
Meanwhile the members OF the board of gov
ernOrs and the emergency committee of the
Building Trades Employers Association were
at the Building Trades Club, hearing reports
from employ ycrs. While the returns
ing in a committee from the Building Trades
Alliance was admitted At the head of the ccm-
mittee were John Manchester and William
Mason. Of the Reliance Labor Club. Mason is
supposed TO be the man referred TO as "ambas-
sador extraordinary before the employers
sOciation by James ]. Daily Friday.
We are a committee from the Building
Trades Alliance" announced the spokesman,
cheerfully.
g. The committee was informed that the Employ
stances recognize the alliance; thereupon the
committee withdrew. Shortly afterward the
gatekeeper appeared before the employers and
said that a committee representing the locked
unions was in the corridor. He remarked
that it seemed the same committee that ap-
peared before.
The visitors were not admitted this time, but
several members of the board of governors. in
Guiding President Charles L. Eidlitz went out
side and found the same committee that ap-
peared before.
We are committee representing the locked
out unions" said one of the labor men.
Asked if they came with power from their in
dividuaI unions 10 act. the members of the COM
nlittee replied in the negative. They were then
told that there could be no conference.
At the alliances meeting tomorrow strikes
of all the unions in the alliance will be ordered
against the contractors in the Employers As
sociation, it is expected. The employers seemed
TO doubt yesterday whether the alliance would
be able to carry out this programme and said
that this would show exactly what influence the
alliance had
Copies Of the arbitration agreement with the
new pledge attached, which individual men in
the trades on strike will sign prerequisite
10 employment, were sent TO all association con-
tractors who needed them yesterday. The great
est number were required by the Electrical Con-
tractors Association, which opened labor bu-
reau. Lewis Harding said:
There have been many applications for guam
titles of these documents which the new men
will have to sign. The Electrical Contractors
Association has reported that il has all the men
it needs, and IN all cases when enough men in
any trade have signed the arbitration agree
uenr they will be organized.
At the present time we are assuming that the
unions which are not locked out will go to work
on Monday. Then we viii start making new
unions in the otkar trades under the arbitration
agreement in the way I have stated
. Some Of the strongest unions are still in the
alliance These include the plasterers, plumbers
and one or two kindred trades. strikes OF which
can cripple work building.