Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-20
IS COMING FROM
BRIDGEPORT TO
DIRECT STRIKE
Vice-President of Structural
Workers Expected to Ar
rive Here Tonight.

The arrival In this city tonight of
John G. Johnson, first vice-president
of the International Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, to take
charge of the strike of the inside iron
workers of this city, and a tie-up on
all buildings under course of erection
where bosses against whom the strike
has been declared have work, are the
developments of the iron workers.
strike today.
Marcus Herkowitz. president of the
local union on. strike, announced this
morning that Mr.. Johnson was ex-
pected in this city tonight, and that
he would Immediately take care of
the local situation. Johnson, at the
present time, is at Bridgeport. Conn,
in charge of the structural iron
workers strike, which has been de-
workers strike, which has been de-
pany plant. Local officers have been
notified that Mr.. Johnson would be
here this evening, and that he was
to take command of the local situa-
ton.
Upon the arrival of the interna-
tional vice-president, headquarters
will be established at 103 Market
street.
Bosses Form Organization.
Another new development in the
strike situation today was the fact
that the bosses in the "hilP' section
met and formed the Master Iron
Workers Association. The bosses
claim that they have been discrimi-
mated against by the union and that
there are several large shops down.
town in which the men are still work
ing.
The union officials assert that in
the shops referred to the bosses are
paying more than the union rate of
wages, have agreed to unionize the
shops, and have also agreed to the
working hours asked by the union,
and that there Is no need to call the
men out in these shops
The Master Iron Workers Associa-
ton will hold another meeting tomor-
row night, at which 1t is expected
that every shop in Newark, both
large and small, will be represented.
The determination to call out the
members of the Central Building
Trades was reached after several of
the large shops, which had practically
agreed to sign the agreement with
the union yesterday afternoon, failed
to send representatives to do so. An
appeal was made to the Essex Trades
Council last night by the strikers and
the call-out of the building trades
was postponed for twenty-four hours
to give the bosses one more chance
to sign the agreement before drastic
action was taken on the matter
A Bosses Association?
The failure of the four shops that
were to have signed the agreement
yesterday to do so was due, strike
headquarters claim, to the activity OF
the small bosses, who are trying to
form an association of bosses to
take up the matter of settlement
with the union. Several OF the bosses
when seen this morning stated that
they had not yet agreed to sign the
union scale, and also stated that
there had been some talk of forming
an association, but that nothing
definite had been done in the mat
ter
Strike leaders are hopeful that
reached today with the bosses, and
that it will not be necessary to call
out the central building trades.
1t was announced at the strike
headquarters that none of the bosses
have attempted to open their plants
or do any work with non union help,
and that all jobs controlled by the
"Hill" bosses throughout the city are
tied up.
Eight men, erecting scaffolding at
the Loretta Home, on Belleville ave-
nue.. near Fourth avenue, quit work
this morning when Samuel Lubin,
one of the foremen employed by the
Essex Iron Works, which concern
has the contract for the fire escapes,
attempted to put his brother to work
on the job.
For a time it looked as II there
would be a mix-up over the matter,
and the reserves from the Second
precinct station were called out, but
before they reached the place the
men who quit work had disappeared.
II Is alleged that the men quit work
because Lubin's brother was not a
member of the union.