The New York herald., 1922-11-25
Workers Threaten to Call
Out Other Trades if
Necessary.
EMPLOYERS ARE DEFIANT
Reiterate That All Brick Work
in City Will Be Stopped if
Walkout Occurs.

New York city will find all brick
work stopped on Monday. its 5000
bricklayers locked out and a corre-
spending tieup of new construction.
That Is IL the Building Trades En-
ployers Association and the bricklay-
ers' unions stick to the stand they
had taken last night.
Virtually the last chance for peace
was removed at meeting Of the ex-
ecutive committee of the masons'
unions in Black Eagle Hall, Third ave-
nue. and East ,Eighty-sixth street. De-
cision was reached not to back down
and yield to the demand of the Mason
Builders Association to man certain
Struck" jobs where employment of
non-unipn hodcarriers had become a
controversy.
Meanwhile the twenty-eight other
member groups of the Building Trades
Employers Association had voted unan-
imously to support the mason builders
in any contest.
CaIS III rInlSh II ikhis
When notified of the action taken by
the employers Walter V. Price. spokes-
man for the union leaders. said:
1--WE won't back down. Well go
through with it, and go through it
alone too. unless later we have to call
on the other trades. 1t takes a long
time for a bricklayer to start a fight,
but when he's in it he sticks
At a meeting at the employers asso-
citation headquarters, 80 West Thirty
third street, resolutions had been adopt
ed that charged the bricklayers with
calling strikes in violation of an agree
ment, with the object of forcing the
employers into break with the inde-
pendent hodcarriers. They said In part:
"Resolped, That unless the bricklay-
ers return to work on or before Mon
day. November q, 1922. upon the jobs
of the members Of the Building Trades
Employers Association on which they
have struck a cessation of brickwork
on the jobs OF all members OF this as
sociation is ordered and. be 1t further
"Resolued, That the executive COM
mittee Is empowered to carry out this
order
Trouble brewing for weeks came to
head when, according to c. G. Norman.
chairman Of the employers. 200 brick
layers were called of eight building Jobs
because employers refused to displace
non-union hodcarriers for union men.
Employers retaliated by announcing
citywide lockout of the bricklayers'
unions as a whole II the strikers did not
return to work Monday.
Forced Into II, Men Say.
Mr.. Price insisted that only three or
four Jobs have been struck but that
they will remain Struck" He said the
Issue had been forced upon the brick
layers by the employers, who had dis
charged union hodcarriers for refusal
to desert TO the independents" The
independent" organization was one OF
the units in the Building Trades Council
of Robert p. Brindell, but was not
founded by him. as has been reported,
c. G. Norman showed.
The numerical strength OF the rival
hodcarriers' organizations is a question.
Mr.. Norman asserts the non-union or
ganization outnumbers tho American
Federation of Labor union $4,000 to
900. Mr.. Price says the latter out
numbers the former Brindell adherents
$1,000 to 500.
In correspondence between tho two
sides, which Mr.. Norman made public
last night. the opening gun was fired
September 2s last. Thomas +. Lynch.
secretary of the bricklayers. served
notice upon the Mason Builders AS
sociation that at a meeting September
is his executive committee had pledged
undivided support to the International
Hod Carriers. Building and Common
Laborers Union OF America" Hope
was expressed that unnecessary cessa-
ton of work. would not be forced upon
the bricklayers. and postscript was
added to the effect:
"If cessation OF work should occur
on buildings now In course OF construc-
ton the public will be informed where
to place the blame"