Evening star., 1936-03-15
NEW YORK STRIKE
TO END TOMORROW
Truce Is ForeshadoWed by
Series of ParIeys-Civic
Group Aids.
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK, March Is tP)
(Sunday).-The strike Of building
service employees in New York City
has been settled and the men will
go back to work Monday, it was
announced early today.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 14.-Manhat-
tan rounded out its second week OF
stair climbing because of hampered
elevator service today, with a vague
hope that striking building service
employees and realty owners at last
might get together over a conference
table and settle the far-fung labor
dispute.
The police set the number of build
ings affected at 2,464.
A five-man board continued negoti-
ations for the peace Mayor F. H. La
Guardia was unable to obtain in two
weeks of embittered statements by
representatives of the employees union
and the real estate lords of New York's
towers.
Hopes for the truce lay in the well
come James j. Bambrick. president of
the union, gave the mayors Mediation
Board and a compromise stand prom
ised by the building owners on re-
employing strikers.
Conferences Are Held.
The board, comprising five New
York City men, conferred first with
Bambrick and other union officials,
and then turned to parley with
Arthur C. Bang, president of the
Realty Advisory Board, and William
c. Demorest. president Of the New
York Real Estate Board.
1t was the first time those top officials
had gone into an arbitration room.
william Rawlins, executive secretary,
and Walter Merritt. counsel of the
Realty Advisory Board, had handled
the several times broken-off negoti-
ations heretofore.
After today's surveys. the mayor S
jury of business men and public Of
ficials hoped to get faction leaders
across a common table for a final
settlement
Pelham ST. George Bissell, president
justice of Municipal Court heads the
mayors jury. A. A. Berle. jr.. city
chamberlain; Raymond V. Ingersoll.
Brooklyn borough president; Hugh
Robertson. engineer, and Lincoln
Cromwell. textile manufacturer, are
the other members.
Strike Started March 1.
The Building Service Workers
elevator operators. porters. chamber
maids, boiler room engineers and some
superintendents-w out in a mass
movement Sunday. March !. in apart
ment houses along Central Park West.
Upper Fifth avenue and Park avenue.
Bambrick long had threatened the
move to force real estate owners TO
give his men an increase of So a
month on top of the SIC to $50 a
month they were receiving, and to
reduce their working hours to 48 from
an asserted six and seven day schedule
of as high as IL hours daily.
Quickly the strike spread through
out the city. Mayor La Guardia pro-
claimed a state of emergency. Bam-
brick threatened to call out more than
100. 900 men in the city's 1000 elevator
buildings, and to back it up with a
Nation wide building strike and New
York City general strike if needed.
In some buildings tenants circulated
petitions demanding the rehiring of
the strikers and expressing their fear
of the men who had been substituted.
The Grand Duchess Marie of Rus
sia and l9 other tenants in one build
ing demanded settlement on the terms
favored by the mayor and the union
to end the unwarranted and danger
Gus interruption of service"
Blamed for Gem Robbery.
Police blamed striker requirements
for a $4,000 gem robbery.
There was violence and more than
$50 arrests. An agency which had