New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-11
ENTHUSIASM AND DETERMINATION OF THE
ORKERS-A GREAT LOCKOUT BY
THE MANUFACTURERS.


Before tomorrow night there will be over 10000
men and women deprived of their work by the As
ISOLATION of Clothing Manufacturers, and one OF the
most desperate fights between capital and labor ever
experienced in this city will be started. There are
eighty manufacturers Of clothing In the ASSOCIATION ana
oil have pledged themselves to follow out the line OF
action decided upon by the association In refusing 10
employ any member Of a labor organization.
The following notice posted in English ana
German in all the shops OF the manufacturers Oh
Wednesday, and 1t shows tnc causo VI uo Pi9's"'
tangled situation OF affairs:
To the cutters and trtmmers In our employ
We hereby notify you that your services will be dis
pensed with after Saturday, July H. 1soo On ana a'er
Monday the 14th will be ready to employ cutters anu
rmmers who are not members Of any trade organization.
This action is necessated because Of boycott inst'
ted by National Trade Assembly No. 231 acting for ana
with the approval and at the instance OF the Garment CUT
tiers and Trimmers' Local Assembly No. 1883. Knights
NJ Labor of NewYork. Those organizations demanded
first that employers union should assist the orean
cations by compelling the cutters and trimmers In their
employ TO pay any moneys which they might owe 70 Meir
and secondly that employers should notify
their empoyes that they must be members OF the Garment
Cutters and Trimmers' Organization, or practically hat
we should employ none but union men,
These demands made on the LIST OF Marcn' io'o
and were accompanied by the threat that the demands
were not complied with before the 10th Of March ooycot
would be instituted That boycott was instituted and Sill
continues.
Conferences were had NewYork and at Philadelphia
with the OF the organizations to which many
OF our employees belong with the request that the ooyco
be raised This request refused and written commune
those representing the ogaAs~ohs h"'o fe
NAMED unanswered.
We cannot continue the employment Of men who are
affiliated with organizations that unustly interfere with
our business with the business OF those engaged in he
same line OF trader we willing to be coerceo into
to demands The outrageous nature Of those re-
terred to.
We have determined therefore, to discharge all our
cutters and trimmers Saturday, July IL inst, and viii
ready Monday the 14h to employ cutters ana tm
mers who are members OF trade organization.
we greatly regret the necessity which has arisen for the
adoton OF This course is forced by the oh.
stnacy the to which some Of you belong No
has ever been made between union and nonunon
men in giving employment while the relation Of employer
and empoyc existed but We cannot employ men 20 manu-
acure goods for US who engaged In unlawful efforts 70
prevent the sale Of those goods when manufactured
The boycott spoken of in the notice one placed
on the firm of Alfred Benjamin Co.. No. 1OA
Bleeckerst by tho United Clothing Cutters Union be-
cause the firm refused to accede to the demand Of the
union that only union men should be employed The
boycott interered seriously with the business Of the
firm especially In the West, and Mr.. Benjamin then
called TO his assistance his colleagues In the associa-
ton, who have now retaliated in kind.
This lockout will affect over 10000 working men
and women in this vicinity, and If the fight is pro-
longed will result in strikes all over the country
wherever the goods manufactured by members Of the
association found One Of the first actions OF the
lockcdout men will be to declare boycott on the
goods of their former employers. The large majority
OF the clohngcu employed in this city belong to
| National District Assembly No. 231 Of the Knights
of Labor which includes all the clothing cutters In the
country Having received some time ago an inkling
of the present action Of the manufacturers all tho
unions interested in the clothing trade met and Or
knAx- I'D tha IT,i<o Cd nenf-
Workers of America, which is composed Of the follow
ing trades: United Clothing Cutters Union, Taors'
Union No. IL, United CoatPressers Union, United
Coat Operators Union Pants Operators Union, Op-
| orators Union Basters' Union, Finishers Union.
Pressers' Union, Buttonhoe- Makers Union No. and
the est-Makers Union.
OF the Manufacturers Association Julius Hammers
laugh Of the firm Of Hammerslaugh Brothers, No. 4S2
Broadway is president and Louis NJ. Honthal, Of the
firm Of Hornthal Whitehead & Welssmann. No. $40
Broadway, is vice-president The Offices Of the as
ISOLATION are at No. 98 Spring-st
| Walter II. westbrooke president Of The United
Clothing Cutters Union, was yesterday by Trb-
une reporter, and he said that his union had decided
already upon plan Of campaign against the assoca
ton OF manufacturers, but IL would not be officially
decided upon until after the lockout and at meeting
| to be held tomorrow evening
At late hour last night IL learned on the au-
thorlty of Professor T. H. Garsde that all negotiations
preparatory to the settlement OF the coakmakers strike
through the mediation Of Father Ducey arbitrator
will end in smoke, for the that the Coakmakers'
Union will not accept Father Ducey arbitrator
I'VE have nothing to arbltrate' said the Professor
:" all We want Is formal recognition OF our union: all
other points could then be easily settled"
| The following correspondence between the Manu-
facturers' Association and Father ric,y pastor OF St.
Leos Roman Catholic Church, In Twenty -eght-s st.
which Vas exchanged yesterday. will explain itself
| Rev. Thomas J. Ducey
| Dear Sir Referring to the suggestion In the news
papers we would respectfully ask you to act mediator
In settling the differences existing between this
|