The New York herald., 1877-11-21
STRIKING CIGARMAK ERS.

IMPORTANT PHASE OF THE STRIKE E-How WILL
EJEcTMENT woRK?-FIFrY-NINE NEW DIS
TREss wARRANTs-INrLUx or THE sINEws.
Each party to tho cigar trade trouble remains
equally determined, and as II seems 20 be only a
question OF financial endurance IT may be long timo
yet before result is reached. Tho strain on tho
funds of the strikers 10 incessant but 1t is confidently
believed that their treasury Will be daily repenishcd
to amount sufficient meet all demands so long
the strike lasts 1t is stated that they have already
ample funds on hand to last until January.
Tho pressure Of ejectmcnt is now the lever used by
the employers to bring the strikers to terms, and
that they arc applying It with vigor can be asccr
tanned from yesterdays report OF the number OF dis
tress warrants issued on behalf OF several
firms. so large has the number OF elected families bo.
increased that the question .whnt will become Of ali
these helpless families IN the event OF tho strike
fangf" IS assuming an interesting aspect. When
be answers confidently, 'Oh, there's no such thing
as iaii." Pressed BY the possibility Of such
an event, the reply is .rne employers viii take
them back.n Again, 'sSupposc the emEIoyer Will
take them back, their places having. meanwhile.
"Why, In that they will form cooperative COM
panies and go to work Tor themseves" II is not I'm.
possible that over five hundred families may DO placed
in this prcdicament during the winter. and, whllc
therc is no fear at present that any OF them will ever
become public charge, would De eve we'l 70 LOOK
SO many Impoverished people upon the streets when
1y any chance their present source OF sustcnancc
should be cut or
Yesterday therc less than 0ity-nine distress
or ecctment warrants issued In each case the iam-
ily numbers IRON three TO eight persons. OF these
Viitacn Jacoby mad three, N. Jacoby SIX,
Foster ~ H,llson thirteen and Lovy Brothers
(No 125 Broome streep thirty-scvcn When
this statement was mado tho Chair remarked,
ssrhe bosses will take tho whole city next"
The INQUIRY was then made what accommodations the
Room Committee had tor this sudden demand upon
them. Tue reply was that they had already sixty
engaged ana yesterday they had added seventy
more 10 the number, making l30 In ALL This was
considered lully sufficient to meet tho present cmcr
gency.
Tne contributions yesterday were:--From cigar
makers, ten per cent on their earnings, $500; Cor
man Talors' Sick society, $50; Williamsburg (bal),
$3.50; Turnhalle dramatic cntcrta nmcnt), $I2 45 ;
Trenton, $40 so; Baltimore, SAB 90; Syracuse, $26 ;
Troy $i4; Milford Mass, So; Bratlcbcro VI, 81 90.
and others, In nil about VI ,000
A letter from Phadelphia announced that the
strikers had succeeded there IN their strike
Tho eleven HAMS OF Bsscb, No l35 Chatham street,
allowed to resume work; 50 were the twenty
hands OF Wolfe IL Stem, Hester street.
Tho familics oil two delegates In Adler Landowners,
Twenty-eghtn street and Second avenue win be re-
moved to-day.
A delegate stated that few girls were az work IN
Straton Storms factories but mono IN their tenc
ment houses
1t is expected that next Friday will be siQnalizcd by
n general hegira Of the present occupants OF teno
mcnt belonging 10 the principal manuiactui
and their installation In their new quarters provided
by tho Central Organization.