The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-08
.BARONOESS ON DECK.
" King of the Cloakmaksrs "
Comes on to Direct the Strike.
His Subjects Generally May Join
Striking Coatmakers.
800 OF Them Quit Work in Broadway
Shops To-day.

The striking sweat-shop coatmakers
were In n quiescent mood this morning.
They had measured their strength at
the mass meeting in Cooper Union last
night and were satisfied that victory
was within their grasp. Their army
which Is numbered by tens OF thousands,
stands together "A compact mass. deter
mined to win. Not one dissenting voice
has been heard among them since the
strike began In the early part OF this
week. The task system, which had
Slapped their life SO long, may be prac-
tically regarded as n thing Of the past
A new element OF strength and sue
cess has been added to the strikers
movement by the arrival Of Joseph
Barondess from Baltimore. He Is born
leader OF strikes, and like the Alex
anders and Caesars and Napoleons OF
history he consolidates his armies by
the enthusiasm which his presence
among them arouses He Is booked to
address the strikers at a mass-meeting
this afternoon at New Irving Hall. He
will also speak at meetings in Brooklyn
and Brownsville.
The striking cloakmakers, to whose
Union Barondess properly belongs
declare that now their old leader is once
more among them, there is no doubt
| that a general strike of their trade VIII
also be inaugurated within lew days
So far there are about 9.0S CLOAK
reached by 500 men quitting work yes
terday at Popkin & Marks's shop on
| Broadway, near Grand street. and A.
| Friedlander & Co.'S. Broadway. near
| White street
The cloakmakers and the Goa tmakers
are not striking to attain the same OBJ
! ieCts. The former are underpaid, but
work at least. in thoroughly ventilated
roomy, well-lighted shops All they ask
| for is more pay. The coatmakers, on
the other hand, have been working In
! light. in many instances, came straR-
Cling through solitary window, facing
the rear yard. where some sky-scraping;
| double decker tenement often obstructed
n view of the sun or, even the sky
| Crowded into those hotbeds of disease,
which rivalled the BLACK Hole of Cal
cutta," were often fifty. one hundred or
| from 4 o'clock in the morning until 10
O'Clock at night. Their pay for all this
work rarely went above S6 week They
were nominally getting 81 day, but as
IA days work was considered task"
and as II task" required three days in
stead of one to be finished. they were
really earning only 81 n day.
| 1t is this system that the coatmakers
| have struck against.
| Their employers, the contractors, those
middlemen who stand between the toll
ers and tn, great manufacturers, have
agreed to accept the terms submitted
by the strikers. They have surrendered
on every point eneePt or one They stu
for the faithful performance OF their
promises. This Is regarded as suspicious
| by the strikers. as they claim to have
often been deceived by the contractors
| in the past.
The contractors hold a mass meeting
this afternoon to decide whether or not
The Knights OF Labor task workers
in the coat trade who number com
paratively few, but who are backed up
the X. Of l.. in this city, brooklyn and
| brownsville, will also hold mass
meeting in Union Square. They have
not, however. decided whether this
| day.
The task workers in the shirtmaking
trade have also wearied Of the intolera-
BILE burden that has been bearing them
down for years almost to the, level OF
brute creation. They also will have a
mass-meeting in Walhalla Hall. 30
fered even worse than the coatmakers.
| and have received very much less pay
There are about 5000 of them in this
city. About one-half are women. There
is no doubt that they will strike.
| A. j. Mllkun. coat contractor. OF
100 East Broadway, led out his own
| men on strike yesterday, and went
with them from shop to shop taking
out men everywhere: He thus sue
ceeded in getting Zoo Christian Poles
| to strike against the sweating system
N;edenburg & Brooks, 164 Fifth ave
| nue.. have settled with their lockedout
custom tailors, who resumed work at the
old scale of wages. The question whether
or not the men working at the lockout
| ehops are to he permitted to settle with
their employers Is to be submitted to a
general vote next week. Some OF the
| shop meetings will vote for a PROPOSE
| tion that no more settlements be permit
ted unless every one OF the employers be
| willing TO settle.