The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-15
BIG CLOAK TRADE LOCKOUT.
FULLY 5000 CONTRACTORS, CUTTERS,
AND OPERA TORS INVOLVED.

AND OPERATORS INVOLVED.
The Lockout 4. Directed AraInat the Cut
tiers. but Il EntaIIr n Fight TO the Finish
between tho Manufacturers AHsoein-
tion RAd the Several Trnde UnlonS.
Nearly 800 union cloak cutters wero locked
out by nine cloak firms at noon yesterday. BE-
tween 5000 and COCO cutters, operators. and
contractors will DO involved in the lock out by
Monday, and, rs the mon are thoroughly or
Ranized and the employers arc firm. the strug-
glo promises to be long and stubborn.
All the men belong to unions which the
manufacturers refuse to recognize. The
manufacturers havo formed an associa-
ton to break up the unions. which they
consider detrimental to the trade. Tho lead
ers OF the unions OF cutters, contractors. and
operators propose to form an amalgamation
OF the three bodies which will represent every
body engaged in cloak making In this city eX-
cept the manufacturers. and they say they In
tond to compel the manufacturers to give up
their association or. as one OF the mon stated
1t last night I'VE will lock out the BOSSES"
The cause OF the lockout was the strike OF
twenty six cutters in Meyer Jonasson Co.'s
shop. These men quit work last Monday in
sympathy with the locked-out operators in
that and other shops, and have been out ever
since. On Tuesday the Secretary OF the
that the Manufacturers Association had
formed an Arbitration Board. which would
try to settle the trouble in the shop and ask
ing that O committee OF the striking cutters
come and confer with them. Tho whole
Executive Committee Of tho Cutters
Union accepted the invitation. aud, with
Chairman Arthur H. Dale at their
head. presented themselves before the
Board the next day What follows
is their account Of the proceedings. Mr.. AL
bert Blumenthal Of Blumenthal Bros. was tho
Chairman Of the Arbitration Board. He asked
the men why the strike had been ordered and
Mr.. Dale replied:
I'VE made an agreement with tho operators
on Juno that we would not work in u place
where non-union operators were employed.
and as Meyer Jonasson Il Co. replaced the
locked-out men with scabs.' the cutters
struck"
Don't you think" Mr.. Blumenthal said.
that you made mistake in nssociatng with
body q. people who are inferior to you? You
are Intelligent men; they are rf not: ,,n,,
beings and oDRht to be treated as such and
not Ike lot OF dogs "a, as they are treated by
He continued, and said that that firm had
discharged twenty;thTee mon for holding
three committeeman who called at his house
one night. and whom he had ordered to
clear out.
The Arbitration Board asked for time to have
a coference with the cloakmaker committee
before they gave their final decision. and the
ters' and Cloakmakers' Unions, held confer
e1Ge with the Arbitration Board on Friday, at
moD Would ia nos retSrn 10
Tork unless ,Efs the panutaetgTeIis recog;
MIR Dale received q message from the Arbitra-
ton Board asking him to call at once. He did
decided not to accedo to the operators de-
mands.
and decided TO stand by the cloakmakers
At noon yesterday the Secretary OF the Gut
ters' Union received this letter.
Tho Cloak Nauufacturers Association OF New York
sTEs Meyer
CLOAK making trade. hereby agree not to employ any
sna
T. NJ, Mason, Secretary.
AS far as could be learned tho firms which
are includeS in the Ma1nfac t1 associa.
lander :, Co., 81 Broadway: Wurzerger &
$Gfsm 2 aSs PoPk ME5
Julius Stein & Co.. 507 BROADWAY: G. Schwab 4
Bros, Il Green street, and Benjamin. Caspary
Altogether between $50 and 800 cutters were
locked out. 1t is reckoned in the cloak bust
twenty operators and finisheTs. There are
at present 500 cloakmakers who have
been striking for several weeks. Be-
tween LOO and 1000 cloakmakors who
work in tho shops OF the manufacturers and
more than 8. 900 who work for contractors will
be put out OF work for want of cut cloth. so that
there will be q total Of over 5000 people out OF
work in n few days. There was enough work
to keep them busy last night, and u great
many will have enough TO do to-day.
The Cutters Union paid the twenty-siN cut
tiers who struck In Meyer Jonasson d Co.'S
shops 1922 apiece. yesterday. tho rate Of wages
they had been getting while ut work. With 300
mon ont OF work. they will have to reduce the
amount OF weekly support, but they say they
can afford to pay enough TO enable the men to
hold out for months.
over 10000 cloakmakers In this city. FIVE hun
who are still at work will contribute to the sup
port OF the locked out men. Of the cloakmak-
ers hardly more than 5000 belong to the union.
but tho others would not have enough work
to do with oil the cutters on strike.
Mr. Dale said last night:
Our brother cutters who have not been
locked out only await our call to go on strike.
hut there Is no necessity for our asking them
to DO so at present The manufacturers cannot
do any business without us. We control
nearly all the productive force in the
cloak trade IL this city; and as the
will want to get US back They have
formed m association among themselves
whose object Is plainly to harm us. We are
going TO try to break up that association. and
II wo succeed in getting abe operators and con-
tractors TO form, an amnlgamation with US we