New-York tribune., 1886-03-19
TIRE CLOAKMAKERS' DEMANDS.
TnIRTY-sIX HUNDRED PEOPLE our OF WORN
ARBITRATION PROPOSED.

TuIRTY-sIX HUNDRED PEOPLE our OF WORK
ARBITRATION PROPOSED.
AS was stated in THE TRIBUNE yesterday
morning the cloakmakers employed by the contractors
left work yesterday and at present out OF WORK 10
the number of about 100 and $500 women. The
strike is a peculiar one in many respects. The vast
majority coaks made in the city are arned out by
the for certain prices Thcse
mddlemen employ from two to fifty operators each'
whom they furnish with machines and have them DO the
work IN their homes. The operators claim that they are
forced work from m to midnight in order TO make
bare living while the contractors get rich The latter
however claim that the operators work the long hours
from choice and that the experts make as much as $50
week The operators have struck against the contract
ors and they demand OF tho manufacturers that they
shall be employed directly by the firms and in the fac
tories
The strikers met yesterday in Golden Rule Hall, in
Rivingonst near Essex where speeches were made to
them The statement made That the contractor gets
81 80 for cloak for which he pays eighyhree cents
to the operator They ask the manufacturers TO pay
them the 81 80 direct Wages to be so far advanced
as give the operator 81 L. and the other nineteen
cents is TO 20 to the relief fund Of Independent Cloak
Operators Union. committee was appointed to wait
Oh Manufacturers Association and present their de-
mands Mr.. Jonasson of Meyer JoHassOn IL Co., told
them that tie matter ud be referred TO the Assoca-
tiOn.
A meeting of the Cloak Manufacturer Association
was called at the Manhattan Hotel for p. Thele
we're present representatives from BOhm Bros Green
field G. Blum & Brother, Benjamin Il Clspary, DaDzlg
Brothers, A. Friedander q Co.. L. Grancr q Co., Meyer
Jonssson 4 CO., The Mercantile Cloak Company f,
Manhattan suit and Cloak Company, ROsenihal
d Co. :. Rothschild Il Brother, Schuz +,
Brothers Blath, G. Schwab Brother, Seligman Co.,
Weisel Brothers q Co., b. Wurzburger N Co" and NJ
Nathan Co. After a long session committee, con
ssnC of Meyer JonasOn, T. Emsten, OF the Manhattan
suit and Cloak Company Emil Meyer, OF = ROthschllds
q Brother Isaac Plant, of the Mercantile Cloak Com
pany and L. Graner, Of l. Graner Co., vas appointed
TO confer with committee from I the tCentral
Labor Union, the Independent Cloak Operators
Union, and the contractors and see some
settlement could not he reached fGe sense
of the meeting the trouble should be left TO the
arbitration of the Central Labor Union.
Mr. Jonakson speaking OF the matter said 1--WE are
perfectly willing TO pay good living wages ana TO nave
The hours of labor shortened but some OF the conditions
which seek Impose are nanliestly Impossible
They insist shall take direcny into our employ
all the people who employed by the contractors
The fact tnat would have no room ortheln ana no
work good part OF the time does not seem tOentr INTO
their calculations They complain that they cannot
make enough working they do now from fourteen 10
factories they could work only nine hours day five
days in the week. and certainly couldn't make snch
an advance in this would imply and 5tl com
pete with the cheap labor OF Germany and the western
cities" 8,
conference between the manufacturers VIII be held
this morning the proposition will be made 10 have
the men finish mp the work when they were engaged
the time of the strike pending the arbitration OF the
Central Labor Union.
tits estimated that the strike has delayed the placing
Of woollens worth S2,OOOOO0 for tile iall trade