New-York tribune., 1920-09-04
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Near i'm Strikes
OfTrades Here
$4,000 Painters Go Back to
Work When Bosses Meet
Demands; 3, 100 Are Still
Out Pending Decision
Many Plumbers Return
30OEmployersC CrantT Terms;
Independent Van Owners
Pay Drivers New Scale

yesterday. Union leaders reported that
$4,000 of the $4,000 striking painters
were back at work yesterday under the
new wage scale and working conditions
demanded by the employees, while more
than 300 employers have agreed to the
conditions demanded by the striking
plumbers.
The painters demand $40 a day and
tive-day week. The plumbers ask So
and a forty -four-hour week.
Philip Zausner, secretary Of the
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators
and Paper Hangers, declared that two
thirds of the employers involved in
the walk-out of the painters have
signed new agreements with the union.
This involves 10000 men, he said. La
ter in the afternoon the Brotherhood
Of Painters, Paper Hangers and Plas-
terers announced that 1000 moro men
had returned to work as a result of 25O
additional employers accepting the
unions conditions.
Master Painters Deny Signing
At the Office of the Master Painters
Association, 5o7 Fifth Avenue, it was
denied that any members of the asso-
citation have signed contracts with the
Zausner, however, declared that many
members of the association have done
so. Moreover" he said. "thc associa-
tion represents only little more than
half of the employers we have deal
ings with"
At the Office Of the Labor Bureau, 1
Union Square, word was received that
700 painters, paper hangers and dec
orators employed in towns on Long
Island walked out yesterday when con-
tractors refused to meet the new de-
mands.
At the office of the Brotherhood of
Painters, Paper Hangers and Decora-
tors it was said that 5000 men
IN various parts of the country
walked out last night on orders from
the international brotherhood direct
ing them not to work on jobs handled
by New York contractors who have not
accceded to the demands of the local
strikers. 1t was said that not more
than 500 men are still on strike here,
the rest having gone back to work fol-
lowing acceptance Of their demands by
the employers.
Conference May Lead to Settlement
Walter j. Kelly, national secretary
and treasurer Of the Brotherhood of
Plumbers, Steamfitters and Helpers.
was in conference all day with
representatives of the employers
at the brotherhood's headquarters, 7
East Fifteenth Street. 1t is hoped that
the conference, the results of which
will be made public to-day, will facili-
tate a settlement. The plumbers strike
situation, however, is not moving for
ward toward a settlement as fast as is
that Of the painters. Seven hundred
employers have not yet agreed to the
demands of the plumbers, according to
r. II. Monks. national organizer Of the
plumbers. He was confident. however
that the strike would be settled within
five days.
Statements emanating from .he of
fee Of the United Labor Council, 2oS
East Twelfth Street, a federation Of
radical labor unions, to the effect that
efforts arc being made to provoke a
general strike in the building trades.
were ridiculed by those faln:liar with
the situation. The general strike state
mcnts were regarded as mere propa-
ganda. The United Labor Council, it
was declared, is in no position to pro-
woke a general strike in the building
trades or in any other trades in this
city,
Seven Trades Decide Not to Strike
Delegates from seven building trade
unions. meeting under the auspices Of
the United Labor Council. at 2O8 East
Twelfth Street last night, decided
against general strike. The unions
penters' Onion, the United Electrical
Workers of America the House Wreck
ers' Union, the Bricklayers' Union, the
Piasterers' Union, the House Laborers'
Union and the Union of Stationary En-
ginecrs and Firemen, composed of men
engaged in construction work. The
meeting was attended by representa-
tives of thirtythree other trades. The
ant!-strkc action was taken in view Of
the statements CT leaders OF the
strikers that no such move is necessary.
j. j. McKenna, business agent OF the
Van Transfers Union, said that a gen.
eral settlement with Independent van
owners has been effected by the strik-
crs. Eighteen hundred men have re-
turned to work as a result Of this set
tlemcnt, Mckenna said. There are still
$500 drivers on strike, he said. all
OF these men being employed by men,
bers Of the Van Owners Association,
who are standing firm in refusing to
grant the mems demands
More than l 900 striking drivers, mem
bers of the International Brotherhood
of Team sters, Local 273, pickcted the
streets throughout Manhattan and the
Bronx in an effort to induce drivers
still at work TO join the walkout. The
pickets halted all such drivers and en-
gagged in long arguments with them
In several instances non-striking oriv-
ers and helpers were roughly handled
At Fifty eighth Street and Seventh
Avenue a moving van loaded with fur
r:lturc destined for Rosedalc. L. l.. was
stopped. and the driver, Charlrs Hart
man, was beaten. Hartman, who lives
at 225 West l25th Street, was attacked
by a crowd of more than fifty strikers
but managed to free himself from hi:
assailants and run out along Seventh
Avenue to Central Park, where he
eluded his pursuers.
Nine Indicted as Gamblers