New-York tribune., 1896-07-22
MANY TAILORS TO 60 OUT.
a STRIKE DECIDED ON AT A MAss-MEET-
ING.
THE RANK AND FILE ovpRRUIE THE LEADERS
WHO WERE OPPOSED TO STRIKE

THE RANK AND FILE ovpRRu1.E THE LEADERS
WHO WERE OPPOSED TO A STRIKE
AT THIS
The wholesale clothing manufacturers ana
the contractors who employ the Hebrew .a'
lors of the East Side will be eurpriseo '''s
morning to learn that the tailors nave oeo,ue0
tn strike This determination was reaoheo ia'o
,,s. WIGHT at n mass-meeting held In Walhaiia
uou IN Orchard-st. The tailors had been rest
Les Cor several weeks and many meetlngs
,,,,ru, he,a Never schoenfeld, the leader OF the
x,.,.norhood NJ Tailors was against calling
strike. He said that while he knew tha' '"e
tailors had been oppressed and their wages o"'
down 40 low that they could not make nVns
for themselves and families. the time 1or s'iiN-
,r~ had not arrived. 1t was fnally oecioeu W
mt the question Of striking to the vote Oh d"
the different branches of the tailoring ihous'i'.
This was done. and they all voted IN laVor ..
ordering a strike at once Ihe oro'nei"o ~
r.uo-. however. does not permit strike to be
ordered without the consent or the hNeou..'o
Ro.rd. The Board refused to order the striKe
ana Il was given out that 1t had been post
pcncd indefinitely.
yyhan the manufacturers heard that 'he s'i'"o
had been postponed they were convinced that
io<s of work to the contractors who employ the
..uc~. The shops are now filed with garments
a, which work has been begun and conse-
crenflv must be finished for the fall trade
tz.a not the clothing manufacturers been fully
convinced that all danger of a strike had passed
au.y. they would have been better prepared
fr II now.
CHEERS AT THE RESULT.
ora. and when Meyer schoenfeld declared that
t,. rxs.cu,ive Board had decided that as 1t
seemed certain that strike must come 1t would
better come at once there was much cheering
Tho news was quickly carried out INTO 'he
sfroets and there was more cheering
Al tna close Of the meeting Meyer Schoenfed
..sd that the strike had been ordered but IL
xx... because the mass Of tailOrs insisted on IL
end not the members Of the Executive Board
IA aaid that 5000 tailors would strike IN TINS
ca+v at O'Clock this morning, ana prooaoiy
x OYO more in Brooklyn and Brownsville wltmn
tventy-four hours He added that the strike was
caused by the reduction Of the wages OF the
tsfiors from 20 to % per cent. and also Dv the
fact that the majority Of the operatives nave 10
work more than ten hours day. ana oy 'iie
attempts to compel them to return 10 the '@'N
or piece-work system.
The Executive Board was IN session almost
the whole night, and committees were appoii,e,o t,a
to visit the various shops at { CLOCK & t,lis
,norntng and call out all the tailors WORKING
An them All the men who leave the shoPs are
70 report at Walhalla Hall. The di1eren.
branches Of the tailoring 1ndustr! WI ,,hto n
meetings IN their halls every night Wnhe
the strike lasts. The branches conslst oi MI
.shers pressers basters. operators anu o'nI, M, .
The Brotherhood Of Tailors is ainila.eu wiz,
the United Garment Workers of America anu
~ will be supported by the latter in the pres
ent strike The Executive Board OF the Broshtt
hood said last night that !ist OF the l, o.nt.'.
demands which would be made on the ciothiis
manufacturers had not yet been prePareu' 1.
is understood however. that the ta1lors Man.
the rate of wages restored tnat waS Ssart pa from
the strike in 1892. This strike is oilereht ron,
ali preyious ones inasmuch as II rs not asalhSt
the contractors who employ the talors 80 liiuch M
as It is against the wholesale clo.,iIiis . Tbo
facturers who give out the contracts. ne
contractors say that this Is due TO the 1act Una.
in the strike of last year the t5rotherhoou ~
Tailors started several cooperative shops. an.
nv this means discovered that tne pr0l's vi
tho contractors were extremely small. The CON
tractors also say that they are coIlpeIIeu ~
take work at whatever prices the ianu" .r,ds
offer them. or il Is given 10 coh'rac'oiS 0u'''
of the Contractors Associatlon'
WANT TO DO AWAY WITH MIDDLEMEN.
II has long been the desire of the leaders OF
tho tailors TO do away with the contractors or
r,i6dlemen altogether and compel the wholesale
c]othing manufacturers to provide their own
shops and pay the talors weekly wages. ohoer
the present system anybody can become con-
tractor by renting room In tumpe-uoMn
building and buying few sewing iilacmnes ,,,
on the instalment plan There VIII De iVey
scenes on the East Side for the next 1ew Gays
and Just what the manufacturers VIII 40 III re-
Iatton to settling the strike could not pc as
certained last night They Will propapy ny
to do something. the busy season IN ne she
clothing industry is now at hand. and II the s,,ihe
contjnues any length Of time the season Will ne
lost and the business Of manufacturing clothing
in this city crippled . ..o
rha notice who have heard rumors OF the
.a.o,,t 81 rila being ordered. for some time VIII
take the usual precautions to-day TO see that 'he
law Is not violated