The evening world., 1889-01-26

Others Read and Gossip Mt the Rooms Of
the workinRwomen's Association While
waiting for Cohnfeld and the Other
Bosses TO Give In-Generaless Ida Van
Etten Is Their Leader.
Talk about the warnings of q hundred
Gagged canariesl
You should listen to the chirruping Of that
number of fine American girls at the rooms
of the Workingwomen's Association, % La
fayette place, to-day.
And there wasn't a gum-masticator in the
party.
Girls" called the little, but plucky Gen.
e~raless Van Etten, i" it's 8 o'clock. Who is
to go on picket for this h our ?''
A pink and white. round-faced little bru-
nette, in monkey fur and a MORE, arose, and
o dozen others Just as sweet and huggable
followed her.
They were despatched TO the relief of as
many others who had stood guard since 8
o'clock on the avenues leading to the scenes
of their recent employment.
It was a sorosis of the striking feather
workers at Cohnfeld's and those who were
locked out yesterday by Hansen d Green.
Stein 4 Heilbrun. NJ. j. Taylor d Co. Unger
& Meyer, Julius Weille d Co., Capel d Co.
and Lowenstein q Gray.
A brighter lot OF young women could not
" W. "He "N&S
happy as birds.
Feather Workers Association. which was
organized as the outgrowth of the strike at
Cohnfeld's in October last.
Six or seven hundred girls are now out
of employment. OF these. 800, who were
employed by Cohnfeld Company, SO Greene
street. pointed out by Committee to Isador
Cohnfsid that. while he was pretending to
adheret to the scale OF prices fixed by the
union in October, he was in reality evading
it by giving all the best-paying work to nom
union girls who worked at SO much a
week, while the union girls could make but
poor pay at the piecework given them to do.
They demanded that the work be more
eouitably divided. and no discrimination
made in favor OF the non-union girls.
Mr.. Cohnfeld would not come to a salts
factory agreement and the girls struck yester-
day. AT the shops Of the other firms named
the girls found the doors shut in their faces
when they went to work yesterday morning.
Six or seven hundred feather-workers were
thus thrown out of work. They met imme-
diately in Lafayette place and resolved to
fight II out.
table and fair by Thomas H.. Woods & Co. .
who employ 800 girls and who declare that
they will pay the scale as long as it is
the market scale and as long, as the union
does not interfere with the workings Of their
union workers and will continue. The union
does not object to this SO long as equitable
union prices are adhered 10.
The manufacturers were invited by the
Union Committee to aid them in fixing the
scale, but only Mr.. Woods, who is declared
by the girls to be Just a dear love of q
man" responded.
Isidor Cohnfeld says Drop me in the
desert of Sahara with a lot of Arabs and
will start a feather factory"
Miss Van Etten, on the other hand, declares
that feather working is a skilled trade &C.
quired in perfection only after many months
experience. There only $50 feather workers
in Philadelphia, and less than that
at Boston. There is no supply
on which the lockout employers can draw
and the striking girls declare that they have
saved up enough to keep them in idleness fol
six months.
Betting & Mazzin last night refused tc
adopt the schedule. and their twenty girls die
not come to work this morning.
There is an oppressive stiffness about the
feather factories and the =" bosses " refuse
to say a word.
Mr.. Green. of Hansen & Green. pointed
disconsolately at a lonesome black anC
yellow and white cat, and said: THAT il
the only animal we have left to us. w,
don't care. We can wait"