The Sun

IRON WORKERS LOCKED OUT.
Tinsmiths Too—Other Half of Them May Start Likewise.

One-half of the housesmiths and other structural iron workers on about fifty-five buildings throughout the city were locked out yesterday in accordance with the ultimatum of the Allied Iron Trades two days ago. The ultimatum was to the effect that unless strikes of the outside ornamental iron workers on seven buildings in sympathy with the strike of the inside iron workers in the shops of the Lieberman & Sanford Company were not called off before yesterday morning 50 per cent. of the structural iron workers were to be laid off, the remainder to be laid off next Friday and the lockout continued if the strikes were not declared off in the meantime.

The shut down started in a few of the shops on Thursday evening, the working week ending in these shops on Thursday. More were laid off in the forenoon of yesterday and in the evening the balance of the half of the men to be locked out were laid off. About 1,500 men are locked out now and next Friday if the strikes are not called off 1,500 more will be locked out and there will not be a structural iron worker employed on any building for which the members of the Allied Iron Trades have contracts.

In some cases men in other trades will be thrown idle by the strike but as far as possible they will be provided with work on buildings which have passed the stages where structural iron workers are employed.

Walter Drew, Commissioner of the National Erectors' Association, which has taken up the fight on behalf of the Allied Iron Trades, said last evening that the lockout will continue until the ornamental iron work contracts of the Lieberman & Sanford Company are manned, no matter how long the strikers choose to remain out.

Each man who was paid off was told that he would not be reemployed until these contracts were manned. Most of the men took the matter stoically.