Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-12
IRON WORKERS
OF NEWARK TO
ARRANGE STRIKE
Inside Craftsmen Will Select
Time for Calling Out
the Men.
LOCKOUT AVERTED If
BOSSES WILL YIELD
It Necessary the Structural
Workers Will Join With
Their Brethren.

Whether the strike of the inside
workers of this city will extend tc
the structural ironworkers, the men
at work on the big buildings through
out Newark. altogether depends or
how the demands of the former are
met by the bosses.
Formal action foc the strike of the
inside ironworkers, which are under
the little OF Inside Ironworkers, In
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Ironworkers Union, No
146, was taken yesterday afternoon
at a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the union held at 165 Spruce
street Another meeting will be held
tonight at the same. place to set a
time on which to call out the men.
Just at present the strike is con-
fined to the "Hill'' section of the city
which embraces the territory bound
ed by Broome, Norfolk, Bergen and
Eighteenth streets, and eighteen
shops are effected. According to an
nouncement of the executive commit
tee, seventy members of the union
will be affected. The executive COM
m1ttee has the unanimous indorse-
ment of the union in its stand.
The demands of the ironworkers
are for a fifty-four- hour week and
the following minimum wage scale:
Twenty-Five cents an hour for second
helpers. thirty cents an hour for firSt
helpers and thirty-five cents an hour
for finishers. They also demand time
and half for overtime, with no over
time on Saturdays.
Marcus Hercowitz, president of the
union, stated this morning that at the
present time the inside ironworkers
are paid lower wages than any other
branch of the building trades. He
pointed to the fact that members OF
the union are all skilled mechanics
and that more than brute strength
and daring is required to be an in
side ironworker.
There is no set scale of wages in
our branch of the trtde,' said Herco-
witt. Helpers of both grades are
paid Sc or 81 per week, While tinishers
average about twenty-seven and 9
half cents per hour Some of the
shops in the 'Hilp district pay the
rate asked by the union for finishers
but no set rate is paid for the help
ers.
y nulllDtI VI tie SHOPS nave dSTCcu
To grant our demands, but we are
going to refuse to settle unless all
the shops agree to our terms. All of
the shops are unionized and every
one win be practically closed down
until our demands for a living wage
are granted"
Building Trades In sympathy.
President Hercowitz further stated
that the Essex Building Trades were
In sympathy, and that il it became
necessary construction work would
be stopped on every building in New
ark on which union labor is employed.
The structural ironworkers, of which
the inside workers are a branch,
would be the first to be called out
and they would be followed by the
other branches of the trade. This
would mean that work would be
stopped on the new Proctor Theater
and Public Service building, which
are the two largest buildings now
under construction in the center OF
Newark
The shops employing the inside
tronworkers are rushed with work at
the present time, according to the
members of the union, and they are
confident that their demands will be
granted by the bosses.
When asked as to the difference
between structural and inside IRON
workers, President Hercowitz stated
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