The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-17

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Tonight about
Is, 600 tailors in this city, Brooklyn and
Jersey City are locked out. There are
1876 shops in the Employers association,
and of this number SO have posted the
new card and the rest are expected to
follow within a few days. Twenty
Thousand workmen may be involved,
for that is the number controlled by
the Brotherhood of Tailors in the three
cities named.
The New Rules.
The varying stories of the two OPP
posing factions relate both to the
cause and meaning of the stand made
by the contractors. The strikers in
sist that the move of the contractors
is an attempt to return 10 the OLD
task system. This, they claim. means
that the contractor becomes virtually
the Judge as to what constitutes d
days work He gives an employee, for
example, ten garments to do per day,
and he has to do them in order to get
credit for a days work, regardless OF
the time 1T may take HIM line con-
tract which the employers signed last
summer provided that the hands should
work ten hours a day; that they
should have their own cf1anrman-W'no
really acted chiefly as time keeper-in
each shop, and that a delegate of the
union should have the privilege of ex-
amining in the condition of each shop
once a month, he being allowed fifteen
minutes for the work.
For the faithful compliance with
these conditions the contractors gave
| bonds in the sum of 500 for each ma
chine.
Varying Stories.
The sudden action of the bosses IN
| locking out their employees is said by
the latter to be ur1Warranted, and IN
fact, a. great surprise to them They
| have kept to the agreement strictly.
given an opportunity to continue to do
The contractors admit the signing OIL
| so.
| the agreement but say it was a one
sided agreement and that they will
| have no more of it. Others TRY to
make the point that the men them
| selves have first broken the agree
ment. because it provides that in case
| of rush times the union shall see that
each shop gets all the extra men re-
quired. This. they assert, the brother
hood has not done.
Benjamin Wilkosky, the secretary OF
the employers organization, insists.
! however, that the agreement has moth
ing to do with the case.
1T simply means" he said, that
we are going to run OUR own shops.
Under the present system we cannot
| discharge an incompetent man with
out having the union down on us, and
we have resolved to put an end to that
Hort of thing"
Mr.. Wilkosky denied that there was
any intention to return to the task
| system. or that there was any lockout
even.
1--WE simply put up rules in our
| shops. Those who want to work under
| them may"
The Bosses Action.
The new rules. so called, are printed
with both English and Hebrew version
on each card. The conditions they
propose are these. literally:
This shop is open for such en-
pioyees that will suit our work.
mo shop chairman or walking dele,
gate admitted here.
Working hours are from to T.,
and from 1 to 6 p. m. daily.
"All employees must be at their re.
| spectfve places on time
anyone ten minutes late shall not
work before quarter of a day.
Cali hands hired by the day only.
Payment made each Monday.
'"The proprietor is the only boss OF
| this shop. and the management of it
Is under his CONTROL
Both the employees and employers
held meetings this afternoon.