The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-10
STRIKE TODAY TO AID CARPENTERS
Bricklayers and Hoisting Engineers May Be Call
 ed Out.

| New York, Feb. 10-A sympathetic ! strike of all union bricklayers and ! hoisting engineers throughout the | country who are employed on con 1 tracts held by members of the i Building Trades Employers Associa- ton will be called today. So Wm. L. Hutcheson, president of the United l Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join CTS, announced Saturday, in an effort 1 to force the association to yield to 1 the demands of the carpenters for an l increase of $1 a day. Employes of contractors who are not members Of the association will not be affected, but government and 1 private contracts in more than 9. score of cities will be. These cities affected include Bridge port, New Haven, Waterbury, Hart | ford, Norwich, Boston, Lawrence. l Providence, Camden, Washington, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Colum bus, Detroit, Terre Haute, Mobile and 1 New Orleans.
 MT. Hutcheson said that no esti- 1 mate could be made now of the i number who are involved In the 1 strike.
 Samuel B. Donnelly, secretary of the Employers Association, said committee had been named to dis | cuss the carpenters demands but that ! the men must return to work before | any conference with them would be l held. MT. Hutcheson said that the men would not return to work until 1 their wage increase is granted. When the bricklayers, masons, plas- terers and hoisting engineers who al ready had walked out in sympathy with the carpenters failed to return | for work yesterday noon. a lockout resolution adopted by the building Trades Employers Association went into effect
 i Ronald Taylor, president of the i association, in announcing the lock
 out yesterday afternoon said:
 we have taken the same attitude as Vice President Piez of the Elmer gency Fleet Corporation has in refer ence to the Seattle strikers. We will
 beat the union.'
 l Union leaders expressed the con- viction that the lockout will affect the
 thirty trades employed in building l operations.
 MT. Taylor said that when work starts the employers do not expect to
 have a full quota, of workers. He asserted, however, that the ranks
 will be recruited and construction work soon be restored to normal.
 When MT. Hutcheson- learned yes-
 terday that MT. Taylor had declared that unless strikers engaged on con-
 struction of the United States Mill
 tary Base In Brooklyn return to
 work. other men would be hired to
 replace them, he said:
 Five hundred discharged soldiers,
 carpenters by trade, and unable to get
 employment, will be posted in uni
 form at the Brooklyn Base as pickets
 Monday"
 The soldiers will be paid carpen-
 ters' wages while acting as pickets,
 MT. Hutcheson said, and If the em- pIoyers determine to establish an
 open shop the soldiers will march. in
 body to the base.
 MT, Hutcheson, who is an alternate chairman of the War Labor Boa a, said:
 we invite the Building Trades Employers Association to submit the
 entire case to the War Labor Board.
 If they are patriotic men they will
 place their case in the hands of the
 tribunal established by the President
 of the United States for the purpose
 of settling controversies between cap ital and labor
 Only 5000 of the 21,SOo union car
 nenters in the city are on strike, MT Hutcheson asserted.
 "The union will stand pat" he
 said. '@We will hold out until May and then we will work according to the law of supply and demand. That | ] Is. if a carpenter is badly needed, $2O r q day will not be too large wage
 for him."