The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-10-16
THE CIGAR MAKERS STRIKE.
WORK GENERALLY Suspended ON THE
EAST SIDE or THE CITY.
The National Cigar Manufacturers Associa-
tion Voting that they will Make no Con-
ecssions TO their Employees for u Week.

Inc NATIONAL cigar Mnuutnctufrre AesOrtn-
tion Voting that they will Mako no Con-
ecssions 60 their Employees for Week.
The cigar makers strike was continued
yesterday. with no abatement in either numbers
or vitality. Factory after factory and scores OF
tenements Joined the strikers. swelling their
numbers up among the thousands. Every large
factory is now involved. The first strike in the
morning was that OF the employers of Kerbs
Spiess at Fifty-fourth street and Second ave-
nue. the largest factory in the United States. At
9ls o'clock the $50 EN- ployees demanded an ad
vance, and upon its being refused. at once quit
work The firm offered fifty cents advance. and
endcavored to compromise. but the men per-
sisted in their demands. Prices per thousand
In this factory ranged from SO upward. the
cheapest brands OF cigars not being made there.
sutro Newmark's employees. at 29-37 Pitt
street tenements. struck also. as did those of
Hrsch & Co.. Norfolk and Rivington streets.
and those OF Isaac Teichman. at 62 Church
street Mr.. Teichman offered fifty cents ad-
vance. Stoutenberg d Co. compromised with
their employees by general advance Of fifty
cents.
A meeting OF the National Cigar Manufac-
turers Association was held in the afternoon
Herbs a Spiess. Lchtenstein Bros. Deusch
Fuchs I. Teichman. Charles Bonde. and all the
other large manufacturers attended. A perma-
nent organization was effected. with Edward A.
Smith OF IL Bowery as President: $. Jacoby OF
200 Chatham street. Vice President; S. Spiess
of Fifty-fourth street and Second avenue.
| Treasurer. and Isaac Teichman OF GO Church
street. Secretary. 1t was. aiter much debate.
agreed that no concessions shall be made TO the
meeting Of delegates from the striking
workmen was held in Concordia Hall. underline
auspices OF Cigar Makers Union No. IA; The
tenements NJ So Allen, PSI -2Sj BrOone, 10 Stan
ton. 2l3-2l9 Broome. 20l-2D3 Chrystic and rear
houses. We're represented. They ask Al. the
general demand. and also 81 less rent per
| month for rooms in the firms tcncments. They
have bccn offered ffty cents advance and pos
The shop qt $50 Pearl street is not striking.
| nor is II likely to strike.
Lcvy Brothers's 100 EMPLOYEES, who work In
the tenement and shop at l25 Broome street.
! have struck. and 80 haye Frederick Dehurry5
streets. as well as Leopold Cohn's 50 hands ut
| 269 Bowcry
Glaccum & schlosser Of Is Rlyington street
discharged their 20 hands on Friday last. as
| they were aware of an intended strike. and
| wished TO escape the odium Of strike" The
firm say: " For the past Ave years we nave been
| work ~ We made. until ono year ago WE were
inaucsd TO make cneap e,sar 80 as az to carry
| poor people. who were moro than anxious to
| work for the wages We offered. With these
source Of their trouble lies in the death dealing
tenement, house manufacturing;
emrns si an ais az T TRd sree 'o nSNas paid 1sn
1915 per 1000. They. strike for 81 advance.
E9SeT Jsess7Tp nbL II iI; street 25 b, haas aS
2s3 Bowery nnl tenement 81 Avenue b: b,,th
struck. Isanc Teischman. G2 Church. 1? liands
| Morris Iacoby. 80 Ridge. 100 hands, Herbs X
spciss fiity-fourh street and Second avenue
shop and tenements. over 700 hands. l.ichten-
workers in this factory who were paid 10 cents
per 100 are offered cents advance. Deutsch
| \ Fuchs, Hester and Bowery. 80 hands. John
| y namskp III Allpn hands Hpprv VI
I;Arr Al smith, shop, Il B9M.ry. and ,.c,nement.
| ~ Ncscy. 100 hands. Holi2mann 4 Deutsch-
berger. iSt Attorney and mo ll5 Ridge. 200 hands
GA GA Fiith streets. 300 hands Tho firm
| offer 70 cents advance-the highest offer yet.
sutr9 4 p' Newmars' marx ~ 81; ~. 80 ~ P,u street
4, ,sehwarNkoph. 222 sni 224 Second street. is
oSse 70 woN ssrkes pGs adSans pay
, and 81 , Tcdncption 9n monthly rent; r. Grsen-
23s 22s. $50 and 2S2 second street; rs iami,
hes. who were paid si.5O per thousand. ask -
ad,anee. and weekly pgymsnls in future IN,
| Bowery; t.ncments ~ Chryste. and III First
and Second streets and in Morrisania. 900
and $40 last Sixteenth street. l5O hands. THIS
| firm offer to advance wages iltty cents.
9a @an rSdqs' iS pfr 6ana a'
| Co, l2s and 1870 Rivington street. 81 hands.
! Charles SalOmon, iu3 and 4lj East Houston
| street: employees ask 81 advance on prices
and 81 less rent. The firm will advance If
| others do
For every factory employing under 500 hands,
| two delegates attended tho employees meeting
| for over 800 hands three delegates. A. Strassar
was elected President Of the new Central Board
| OF Cigar Makers. AZ il will be called: Mary
| Heistcr, Vice Pres ident; Vance Hawai- Secrr-
Lary: and >. Braschck. Treasurer. \ cons,;u-
| tion was read Executive committees were
appointed 20 conduct business. at as media
tors. and 500 that pickets are around the fac
tories. The meeting adjourned 10 assemble
| again to-day.
On saturday Llchtenstein Brothers. 27O Bow
cry had police officer stationed NJ their door
| while paying off their hands. This prrcuution
WAS entirely unnecessary. a. The strikers Ar"
| not violent even in speech They ask merely
| living wages. This great strik" Is entirely IN
| dependent of the Cuban cigar iacinri,s. While
| imported Havana tobu'co IL largely used. the
main article OF manuiaNnre Is seed tobacco
grown in this country. There are no duyies To
be paid on II. and dealers in the leaf say II has
fallen in price within the past two yeurs.