The evening world., 1894-09-12
$500 MEN AT WORK.
Situation of the Garment Work.
ers Quieting Down.
,o5 Contractors Have Yielded to
Their Demands.
IT., workers still Out Insist Upon
the 59-Hour Week.

nh. holiday aspect which the east side
"a. horne for the last two weeks is rap
,d,v disappearing. Thousands of the
.ntI.syeat system coat-making strikers,
nbo had blocked the thoroughfares in
order TO discuss the situation, have re-
turned TO work. Only here and there
small groups of men are still seen gath
cred to congra tulate themselves on their
almost certain prospect of also soon re-
turning to work. In a word, what Is
considered to have been the most re-
markable strike ever witnessed in this
city is drawing to a close.
The strikers have won at every
point, and 1t is only a question of a
day or two when they will all be at
work under the better system they have
SO far. 125 contractors have yielded;
and $500 men have returned to their
shops.
Notwithstanding that the strike is
practically won, the coatmakers will
continue to hold mass-meetings every
afternoon until the last man is back at
sity, which is explained by one Of the
leaders to be due to the peculiar char
Acter Of the men involved in the strike.
The Clothing Contractors Mutual Pro-
Executive Board of the Brotherhood Of
Tailors, TO which the. striking coat
makers be.ong, to appoint a committee
to confer with the Association. The EX-
, ecutive Committee has replied with an
open circular, in which the conference Is
declined, because the main body of the
strikers is. opposed to any settlement
with the Association as such, and also
because 1t is considered unjust to the in
diridual contractors who have already
signed the, agreement and bond sub
mitted to them.
The Knights of Labor strikers have
also adopted the form of the agreement
used by the Brotherhood men. with
the exception Of the bond. No security
contractors faithful performance Of the
agreement
This led to rather remarkable com.
plication last night. Contractor Samuel
street, and who had before the strike
employed brotherhood men, awaited him
self OF the K. of l.; terms and signed
came to getting men to fill his shop. 1t
is said that there were not enough K.
OF L. coatmakers TO supply his demand.
Levy thereupon went around to Il Suf-
folk street; where the brotherhood strik-
ers have their branch headquarters, and
explained that he had acceded to the
K: of L. demands.
altogether contrary to his expectations
He was fairly pitched from man to
man down the sttirs, through the hall,
l into the street landing there SO com,
have had scarcely strength to limp
Joe snelder is one of the strikers who
man" disposition. He has joined the
strike against his own father, r. Smell
der. Of "a Norfolk street, and declares
that he VIII not return to work until
and the bond.
j The Executive Board, of the Brother
w ssus iSIs 70 the down
planning the nature Of the strike and the
strikers attitude towards the contrac-
tors.
Twelve local assemblies of the X. of
L. will hold meetings all day at Liberty
Hall. in East Houston street. One Of
these. Progressive Union No. ~. con-
sists Of piece-work tailors. They, ask
increase of from rs to 30 per cent. of
what they can earn now. and demand
that weeks work shall consist of
Barondess has. since his election yes
terday TO the leadership of the Cloak
makers Union, settled strikes in the
following, firms, Crawford & Quigley;
Friedlander, and Indig & Berg. New
strikes were declared to-day against
Norris Cohen. of Lispenard street, and
Goodman & Straus. % West Houston
street,
There will be mass-meetings Of the
Brotherhood of Tailors and of the K. of
l.. in Newark tonight.
The State Arbitration Commissioners
tractors Association and of the striking
Brotherhood Tailors to appear before
them at 10 o'clock tomorrow in the
Broadway Central Hotel to investigate
the cause of the strike and try to bring
about a settlement.
The Contractors Association is still
rresolutely opposing the bond required by
nllment Of the terms of agreement sub
mitted by the strikers