New-York tribune., 1904-08-04
MORE STRIKE IN SUBWAY.
ANSWER TO M'DON4LD.
Men to 90 Ont on Al Fuller Con-
tracts TO-DAY.

The chances for neace in the building trades
seemed further off than ever yesterday ana 'iie
threat of John B. Mcdonald to fill the places ol
the strikers on the subway if they did not a'
once return 10 work had so little erect that lhe
tile layers who refused TO obey the original
strike order quit work in the subway. The or
der Of the board of governors TO the unions IN
volyed in the subway strike and on a numoer
of buildings TO return to work was received
with defiance by the unions, and new strikes are
to be ordered.
The Amalgamated Painters Society ana the
brotherhood of Painters, through whose quarrel
the subway strike was brought about. have de-
cided to unite not for peace, but for war ana
will hold mass meeting on Saturday III
Coorer Union TO amalgamate The united body
win ioin the Building Trades Alliance, which
is engineering the strikes. and which will begin
to-day to extend the strike against the George A
Fuller Company at the Trinity Building to all
the other Fuller contracts
Even the plasterers in the subway, whose
strike had been declared off by the union. were
still strike yesterday. 1t appears that Walk
ing Delegate Anderson Of the union was going
TO order the men back TO work, but became i'll
before he fulfilled his mission and had to go
homo, At least. that is the story the unions tell.
James P. Holland. chairman of the rapid transit
committee of the Central Federated Union. who
failed to keep appointment asked for by
himself with the rapid transit contractors, was
also supposed To he sick yesterday.
The letter Of warning from the board of gov
ernors of the Building Trades Employers Asso-
citation to all the unions. which for some reason
was first held hack. sent TO the unions yes
terday. It that if the strikers We're not ali
back by tomorrow morning both in the subway
and elsewhere the board would take further
measures These further measures sup
posed to mean a lockout, but little does the
idea of a lockout scare the unions in their
present mood that Daniel Featherson. secretary
of the District Council Of the Brotherhood Of
Carpenters. which not long since experienced a
lockout of a week, said. in voicing their senti-
ments
Let them lock us all out if they like If they
must have a fight, l suppose we will have 10
give it to them.
The Building Trades Alliance met yesterday
in Brevoort Hall! Fifty-fourth-st. Third
ave. elected officers indorsed all the strikes
and appointed a strike committee TO order more.
1t stated that committee had been ap-
Ionted 10 invite the Housesmiths and Bridge
mems Union TO join the alliance. The new
strikes against the Fuller company will be be-
gun to-day by general strike at the Sturtevant
Hotel. Twenty -ninth-st. and Broadway.
John B. Mcdonald had nothing TO say about
the subway strike His utimatum told every
thing. He said he had never authorized a state
ment that the subway would be turned over to
the operating company August !. September l
any other specific day.
The strikes Will be acted on at a special meet
ing Of the board of governors Of the Building
Trades Employers Association to-day. Secre-
tary William +. Hertig Of the employers as
sociation said that the board would take dras-
tic measures only when all other methods failed.