Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-17
|RONWORKERS
STRIKE FOR A
WAGE INCREASE
Men Walk Out of Shops in
Hill Section
Today.
WANT UNION RECOGNIZED;
TRADES COUNCIL BACKING
All Building Trades in City
May Suffer
Tie-Up.

Members of the Inside Ironworkers
of the international Association of
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers,
Local No. 14s of this city, went on
strike today, and the men employed
in all of the HIP section shops have
been called out.
The strike will not go into full eff
feet until Monday, however. as it was
impossible for the officials of the
union to get in touch with all of the
bosses this morning, and the union
leaders desire to give every boss a
chance to act on the demands of the
union before a general strike is called
About forty men were pulled off
jobs and out of the shops today, and
the remainder will come out Monday
morning if the union demands are
not granted in the meantime.
Several of the bosses are willing
to sign the schedule which was pre-
sented and they will be given an op-
portunity on Monday to do so
Marcus Herkowitz, president of the
local union, who is acting as bust
ness agent stated that eight shops
had been visited and when the bosses
refused to sign the schedule a strike
was declared and the men were OF
dered from the shops and work was
stopped on any outside jobs on which
they were engaged BY Monday it is
expected that the remaining ten
shops in the "hill" section will be
called out. There are about seventy
members of the union who will be af.
fected directly.
Meeting Called for Tomorrow.
The union will meet tomorrow at
their headquarters, 165 Spruce street.
where ways and means will be dis.
cussed for keeping watch on tho
shops which are on strike and also
for raising funds to carry on the
fight. The ironworkers are deter
mined to win this fight for recogni-
tfon of their union and higher scale
of wages.
If it Is ordered it will tie up the
building trades of Newark, as the
agreement submitted by the iron
workers was indorsed unanimously
by the Essex Trades Council last
night, which Endorsement means that
the iron workers have the moral and
financial support of the trades coun-
Gil.
Sigmund Moss, the iron workers
delegate to the trades council, stated
at the meeting last night that every
effort had been made to have the
DDSSeS Ill lil6 mn SeCLlOD, Wn1Cn
are the only ones that will be effected
by the strike at the present time,
grant the demands of the union or
to meet the union representatives in
a conference, but the men have been
entirely ignored
The demands of the iron workers
are principally for the recognition of
the union, with a representative in
each shop. A new wage scale, maxi
ing a minimum wage of twenty five
cents an hour for second helpers,
thirty cents an hour for first helpers
and thirty-hve cents an hour for fin
ishers, is also asked. A fifty-hour
week Is demanded with time and
half for overtime. with no overtime
on Saturday.
The iron workers declare that at
the present time the men are work
ing from fifty-four to fifty-seven
hours per week, that helpers are be-
ing paid Sc and 81 per week without
being graded, and that finishers are
paid all rates of wages.
The bosses object to their shops be-
ing closed to all but union men, and
also to the scale of wages asked for
helpers. They claim that the scale
asked is entirely too high for un-
skilled mechanics