New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-11
5000 Reject Employers
Compromise Offer
More Out Soon.
ENGINEERS AGREE
TO MEDIATION
Sixteen Thousand Cloakmakers
to Return to Labor Monday
Under Better Conditions.

Rejecting the employers offer to re-
duce the working week from fifty-three
TO ffty-one hours and TO increase the
weekly salary by 81, 5000 interior iron
workers and bronze erectors last night
| at q meeting in Beethoven Hall voted
to go out on strike at o'clock thus
morning. The strike will practically
tie up building operations, and will, It
| was said, involve about 10000 men in q
week
The iron workers and bronze erectois
have demanded forty eight-hour week
and q 50 weekly increase, with the rec
| ignition of the union. The last demand
| the employers rejected absolutely.
| William Karlin, attorney for the iron
workers, read the employers offer. ahd
after several hours of discussion put 1t
to a vote. The workers by unani,,
nous vote rejected the concessions ana
adopted the strike resolution.
| Involved in the strike are the work
ers. who put in the fire escapes. stair
ways and window sashes on new
buildings. Myer Abrams, Of the Cen
trail Committee of the Metal Workers,
announced after the meeting that on
September ], 10000 brass workers,
metal polshers, tinsmiths, jewellers
and sheet metal workers would go out
if demands now in preparation were
not granted. He added that If the en-
ployers carried out threat TO lock
out the 10000 brass workers, who have
| filed demands, the strike would be
called Immediately.
Persistent efforts of Federal medi-
stors to bring about a settlement of
the marine engineers strike met with
partial success yesterday. when officers
Of the striking organization agreed TO
accept their services. II the boat own
ers do likewise a series OF hearings Will
be begun. go.
81 have signifed my willingness to
srbitrate with the boat owners If they
, will agree to such a plan" said Thomas
l. Delahunty, business manager OF the
Marine Engineers Beneficial Associa-
ton.
Meantime the organization will make
every effort 20 extend the strike, thus
compelling the employers TO listen to
their arguments. Delahunty said his
organization would not attempt to re-
strict its members in persuadng en-.
gineers employed BY owners who had
refused to meet their demands to aban-
don their boats and join the strike.
Longshoremen May Quit.
He also predicted that unless there
was a speedy agreement with boat own
ers 'longshoremen would go out IN SYM
pathy. This, he said. was particularly
true in Brooklyn, where the Eastern
District. Arbuckle and Bush Terminal
companies were giving the engineers
hard fight.
The determination OF the engineers
10 hold out for victory. either through
mediation or continuation OF the
strike, was strengthened by the infor-
nation that engineers all along the
Atlantic coast were gaining increased
pay. A strike on the Great Lakes has
teen averte6 1t was announced at the
strikers headquarters, through con-
cessions by the boat owners.
Delahunty issued a statement last
night placing responsibility for the
present difficulties on the shoulders OF
F. B. Dalzell, chairman of the CON
ference of towboat owners. Mr.. Dali
zell's attitude was described as being
very unsatisfactory. to say the least"
II was said that he never was in
conciliatory frame OF mind.
The releasing of two empty freight
boats from the b. e. o. docks at st.
George last night was credited to strik-
ing engineers by the railroads special
police. They said the hawsers holding
the vessels-one a cattle boat and the
other a car ferry-had been cut and
that they had drifted up the harbor.
They were returned 10 their moorings
two hours later.
5000 Cloak Strikers to Return.
Although the Cloak and Suit Manu-
facturers' Association has declined TO
accept the services of mediators in
bringing about a settlement of the
garment workers strike, IL was an
nounced at union headquarters yester-
day that at least 10000 workers would
return to work Monday under the i'm
proved conditions they demanded. Il
was said that 900 applications from
manufacturers who wished TO sign
agreements with the union had been
received and that they would have
been passed upon by tomorrow night,
permitting an army Of men and women
10 return TO work.
Michael j. Reagan, industrial medi-
ator of the State Department OF La
Dor, announced that his offer to serve
the manufacturers had been declined
with thanks" The manufacturers told
him that there was nothing TO arbi-
trate. lie felt certain the employers
would listen 10 his arguments later.
at is Characteristic of belligerents
TO want TO fight to a finish but at the
end they will be perfectly willing to
listen to a plan that will save further
loss Of time and money by both Sides
he said.
Calls Employers Two-Faced.
Benjamin J. Schlessinger. president
of the international Ladies Garment
Workers Union. called attention 10 the
fact that the employers who now are
refusing not only TO grant the demands
OF their workers, but even to meet
with Mayor Mitchell in discussing the
situation. had contributed $4,000 TO
Jews suffering in Europe.
"Can you imagine a more fragrant
OF two-faced DEALING" he
demanded. "They refuse even to dis
cuss remedying the wrongs OF their !
own suffering employees. and are ready !
20 use all their resources 10 bring back |