The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-20
Is GIRLS AGAINST ONE MAN.
CIGARETTE MAKERS DANCE AWAY
THEIR IDLENESS ON STRIKE.

THEIR IDLBNESS ON SIhiAG"
never, Never, They say, VIII Thsy subuit t.
y Tyrant Foreman who Used 60 work
with Theus, but Crsases isis Trousers Row
aud Parts His HAIR In the Very Miadis'
seventy.hvo striking cigarette girls from X.
soidenberR, Sticfcl g. Co.'s factory In East $50
street, aided by q score or moro Of sympathiE'
ing young mon, met in New Irving Hall In
Broomo street, between Norfolk and Essex
streets, and said things about Foreman Henry
CLANS. They said them from the PLATFORM,
thoy said them TO one another, and they said
them to everybody who wandered Into the hall.
Dancing schools to tho right Of them. dancing
schools to the left of them, dancing schools In
front Of them, and dancing schools above them
could not dampen their enthusiasm. The
wheezy cornet on the right, the wheeler or
chestrion on tho left, and the ono stringcd-vio-
lin above combined to down the eloquence OF
tho speakers, but were unsuccessful. There
were times when the music had 30 much tho
upper hand that the speakers had TO hold up
until the spasm passed, but just the same the
meeting went along beautifully, and revealed TO
the young women n condition never known to
exist in an east side strike before. The leaders
reported that financially everything was all
right, that they had actually declined several
offers Of assistance from kindred unions and
individuals, and that they could hold out
against their employers indefinitely.
In tho old days he was Harry; now he 10 MIR.
Henry CLANS. That Is ono charge against him.
Others are that he keeps mirrors about his
desks, the ostensible use of which IL to enable
him to keep an eye on the cigarette girls; but 1t
fs charged that no keeps his eyes on himself
also; it is charged that he creases his trousers
and parts his hair In the middle; that he is too
young; that he is unfair: that he has favorites,
other reason than that t6ey sided with another
girl with whom he had quarrelled.
A group of strikers volunteered to tell a Sun
Esueh a ~tyrant.' said one. "oh, my. he's
perfectly upbearable. Why. do you know what
9ssEE T Bosk IS a1h0 Well v ifn Annie s'" and Yed dds
they msgt,s sided snS VIII n q party , whSss ap mem ] w9 IT.
CLANS, he had some trouble with ono Of the girls
and he said Annie and Yedda were advising
her what to do. Now, what do you think of
There was q chorus Of groaus from the girls
in the immediate vicinity and one of them
And. mind you, he amt any more than the
rest of us-that is. he wasn't, down at Miller's.
firm handled only cigars up to a year ago. when
they decided to make cigarettes, too. So they
ssnt down to Miller,s on Crosby street; :, They y
Johnny Dempsey for aforeman."
eyes. and Johnny was dead square,. too" put
Right" went on tho other; mo slavery under
They sent him upstairs to the cigar room and
man. And oh. my, but wasn't he pulled. up.
Began t. crease IFS trousers. part his hair in
Miss Cohen, Miss Cohen! here's a faulty
sklrts Of the group. There was a general laugh
That's the way he talked. Then he got q
mir mirror r. and put 1t on bis !, desk so he could sit
t masA e One 0a aay 20 on ns on" on the fS,,i girls siS Us sa ana to n1'f him:
and when he turned around Nj Minnie nI said out
bleaehes.' Minnie Isn't afraid Of anybody.
wei. we stood q great deal from Mr.. CLANS.
but we couldn't stand it when he began TO play
f%actoryi MOI We'll, then You don't Know
what It means: There's all kinds Of tobacco.
good from the bad and roll only the good. He
used to pick out the hest tobacco and give 1t to
4 That lsw meant ga e tha Pet 5 GOOD %o name Est OF T das c Mas left;
would DO pronounced bad. and we'd get no pay
But that wasn't the worst. You see the
foreman hands out rolls of tobacco to the girls
and thew are supposed to make a hundred ciga-
a aeIios Of E eau 2, a T Ws coa hS Gta eet siS Sen us enough sien.
rettes out of what he gave us. When we de.
manded more tobacco he refused it and said it
vas our own faults If we wasted the tobacco.
YES, and one week" said a plump little girl
who seemed very much excited, what did he
do but come out in our room and tell us that as
he was 10000 cigarettes short ON the week he'd
have to dock our pay for 100 cigarettes each.
He said we ought to be thankful to got of that
easy"
what we want" said another girl, lis q stop
put to such things. We want a union shop
and any one for boss but Harry CLANS. Oh, for
Johnny Dempsey again.
The strikers dance and sing at their meeting
places before the meetings begin and listen in
teptly when speeches are made, They, declare
complished two things; first. the undoing Of
CLANS; secondly, making q union shop out Of
have a trump card to play that is the call
ing out OF all the cigar men who work for the
firm. They say the Cigarmakers' Union has
offered to order the men on a sympathy strike
whenever they say the word. They are holding
of. they say: because they think they can &C.
their employers.
SO far their pickets have kept other girls
from taking their places, and they say that 1t
VIII be impossible for the firm to do any more
mands, as they have the sympathy OF all the
cigarette makers in the city.