The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-12
$500 men AT WORK.
Situation of the Garment Work
ers Quieting Down.
125 Contractors Have Yielded to
Their Demands.
The Workers Still Out Insist Upon
the 3d. 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 a close.
me 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
fought for.
So far, 125 contractors have yielded;
and 200 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
his bench. This is considered a neces-
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-
tective Association has requested the
Executive Board of the Brotherhood Of
TaLors, to which the striking coat
to confer with the Association. The Elk
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
dividual contractors who have already
signed the agreement and bond sub
mltted to them.
The Knights of Labor strikers have
also adopted the form Of the agreement
used by the brotherhood men. with
is required by the X. of l.. for the
contractors faithful performance of the
| agreement.
This led to a rather remarkable com.
plication last night. Contractor Samuel
Levy. who has shop on Delaney
street. and who had before the strike
employed Br3therh1od men. ayaiied him
their agreement. However, when !
carne to getting men to fill his shop, I
Is said that there were not enough X
of L. coatmakers to supply his demand
| Levy thereupon went around to II SUI
folk street. where the brotherhood strik
ers have their branch headquarters anC
| explained that he had acceded to tn,
X. of l.. demands.
His announcement produced an effec
| altogether contrary 20 his expectations
He was fairly pitched from man I,
| man down the stairs, through the hall
into the street landing there so com
pletely, demoralized that he is said t
have had scarcely strength to linn
| away.
Joe Sneider is one of the strikers who
is imbued with 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 unit
his, father has signed the agreement
and the bond.
The Executive Board OF the Brother
hood will issue a 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 X. o
| L. will hold meetings all day at Liberty
Hall, in East Houston street. One o
! these, Progressive Union No. ~. con
| sists of piece-work tailors. They ash
! for change to week wages, with al
! increase of from % to 30 per cent. o
/ what they can earn now, and demand
that weeks work shall consist o
| fifty-nine hours.
Barondess has. since his election yes
terday to the leadership of the Cloak
makers Union. settled strikes in tn,
following firms: Crawford & Quigley
| Friedlrnder, and Indig & Berg. New
strikes were declared to-day agains
Morris Cohen, of Lispenard street. an,
Goodman & Straus. % West Houston
| street.
There will be mass-meetings Of tn
| brotherhood of Tailors and of the X. o
l.. in Newark tonight