The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-03
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The End of the Tailors' Strike in Sight
Meeting of Arbitrators-35O Contractors
Have Signed the New Agreement,


Have Signed the New Agreement.
New York, Aug 2.--The backbone Of
the tailors' strike is broken A major
thy of the contractors in the city have
already signed the new agreement pro-
posed by the strikers, and about 1000
strikers in this vicinity are thus en-
abled to resume work.
Meyer Schoenfeld stated this morning
that the strike had practically been
decided in their favor, and could at
most last for but a few days more. He
said: The contractors are coming to
our side as fast as we can sign them.
This rush will continue until all the
contractors, except few of the men,
bers of the Contractors association,
have signed our agreement. 1t is prob
ablethat these viii make stubborn fight
of it. But when we have the majority
of shops running they will be able to
employ all our men, and then the other
contractors will have to look out for
themselves.
eve are all very we'll pleased with
the meeting of our executive board
last night. We received very satisfac-
tory reports from all our various
| branches.
81 intend soon to place some valuable
| evidence concerning the sweat-shop sys-
| tenn in the hands Of the Reinhart com
| mittee
1.-THE strike will, believe, enable the
| city to be freed from the curse of the
sweat-shop system. A committee, con-
sisting of Herman Robinson of the
Brotherhood of Tailors, A. ]. Felz of the
Garment Workers and c. F. Reichers,
| general secretary of the National Gar
| ment Workers of America, appeared
| before the state arbitration committee
| last night and stated our side of the
story"
| A mass meeting for men will be held
| this afternoon at Walhalla hall, and
the regular executive meeting will be
| continued throughout the day for car
| rying on routine business.
The settlement committee reported
this morning that $50 contractors have
SO far signed the new agreement. This
| will enable about 1000 men to resume
work at once in this city.
Acting Captain Sheehan of the Ed
ridge street station said to-day that the
present strike was the best conducted
strike he had ever known. He said
that not a single arrest for drunkenness
or disorder of any kind has been made
up to this time.
The Contractors association are still
very confident that the strikers will
surrender to them in the end The
regular weekly meeting of the con
atr,1 !, toh hold
the headquarters at 200 East Broadway
was attended it is said, by 500 con
tractors. The leaders report that they
will make no concession to the strikers
Secretary Mitkowski said to-day:
"All rumors to the contrary, the Con-
tractors association still remains un-
broken. We gained yesterday twenty.
four outside contractors.
'"Three Of them have signed the new
agreement proposed by the contractors
They have already found as all con.
tractors must find in the end, that the
proposed conditions are impracticable
One of these men who runs a large
shop found that the employees them
selves became dissatisfied He opened
his shop on Wednesday morning ant
many of his people left the shop yes
terday and the others will do so to-
day.
1.-THE strikers have twice refused t.
meet us and arbitrate the question
They are afraid to come before the pub
lie and show their hands The striker!
have perhaps brought few contractor.
to their side, and they will probably
| gain few more. But there is no brea
in the Contractors associations.