The evening world., 1894-09-12
EDITION.
$500 MEN AT WORK.
Situation of the Garment Work.
ers Quieting Down.
1926 Contractors Have Yielded to
Their Demands.
The Workers Still Out Insist Upon
the 59-Hour Week.

The holiday aspect which the east side
has borne for the last two weeks is rap
idly disappearing. Thousands Of the
anti-sweat system coat-making strikers.
who 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 congratulate 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 close.
The strikers have won at every
point, and 1t Is only question of a
day or two when they will all be at
work under the better system they have
So far. l25 contractors have yielded !;
and $500 men have returned to their
shops.
Notwithstanding that the strike is
continue to hold mass-meetings every
afternoon until the last man is back at
his bench. This is considered a neces-
sty, 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-
tective Association has requested the
Executive Board Of the brotherhood Of
r"l.ors, to which the striking coat
makers be.ong, to appoint a committee
10 confer with the Association, The Elk
ecutive Committee has replied with an
open circular, in which the conference is
acc. ined, 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
dividual Contractors who have already
signed the. agreement and bond sub
mltted to them.
The Knights of Labor strikers have
alSD ahnnta1 hn - ha Mt
used by the brotherhood men. with
The exception of the bond. No security
S required by the X. of l.. for the
contractors faithful performance Of the
agreement.
This led to rather remarkable com
Plication last. night. Contractor Samuel
Levy, who has shop on Delaney
employed brotherhood men, awaited him
self of the X. of l.. terms and signed
their agreement. However, when It
$ yaid Il that s there e We're not enough X.
81 ". coatmakers to supply his demand
Levy thereupon went around to II Suf-
folk street, where the Brotherhood strik-
eA piained that he had acceded to the
X. of l.. demands.
His encouragement produced an effect
lie was fairly pitched from man to
man down the stairs, through the hall,
INTO the street, landing there SO COM
pletely CemorallZe0 tnat ne is SAID TO
have had scarcely strength to limp
away.
Joe sneider is one of the strikers who
IL imbued with an antique Ro-
man" disposition. He has joined the
strike against his own father, r. Snei-
der of "a Norfolk street, and declares
that he will not return to work until
his father has signed the agreement
and the bond.
The Executive Board of the Brother
hood will issue n circular TO the down
town manufacturers this afternoon, eX-
planning the nature OF the strike and the
strikers attitude towards the contrac-
tors.
Twelve local assemblies OF the K. OF
/ will hold meetings all day at Liberty
Mall, In East Houston street. One of
thtse, Progressive Union No. ", con-
tists Of piece-work tailors. They ask
for change to week wages. with an
Increase of from 20 to 30 per cent. of
What they can earn now. and demand
th2t weeks work shall consist OF
htty-nine hours.
barondeSs has. since his election yes
terlay to the leadership of the Cloak
makers Union, settled strikes in the
following firms: Crawford & Quigley:
Highlander, and Indig e. Berg New
striEes were declared to-day against
Morris Cohen, OF Lispenard street. and
street
There will be mass-meetings of the
Bgotherhood of Tailors and of the X. OF
H. IN Newark tonight