New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-18
TAILORS' STRIKE EXTENDS.
FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN THOUSAND
WORKERS UNEMPLOYED.
BROOKLYN GARMENT MAKERS AFFECTED AND
STRIKES IN OTHER CITIES IN THE STATE
TALKED or-EXcITED SCENES ON
THE EAST SIDE.

THE EAST SIDE.
stranger In Orchard-st. and the neighborhood OF
Walhala, New Irving and other halls yesterday
would have thought that every In the great
East Side population had gone on strike The peo-
pie packed the halls TO suTocatlon and filled the
streets to OVERLOOKING Il does not take much to
excite an East Side crowd, but there was excitement
10 spare yesterday, and the oilers surfeited
with ii. They kept surglng backward and forward
between the different halls and meeting places and
a Platoon OF police had to work hard to keep pas
sageways open through the streets Large red flags
hung from the windows Of the halls. sIgnify!ng to
the initiated that the annual strike not only OF the
Brotherhood OF Tailors but Of number OF the other
allied trades, was on.
The meetings in the halls were kept going ali day
and late into the night like continuous performances
in some of the vaudeville theatres. and they at no
time lacked audiences Most OF the speeches we're
In Hebrew. and the speakers were repeatedly and
loudly cheered At the meeting In Walhala Hall
Meyer Schoenfeld. the leader OF the taiors' last
strike, made several speeches. lie declared that ne
did want TO be the leader in this strike although
he with the strikers body and soul Then he
said he would test the sincerity OF the audience by
asking those who favor OF the present strike
TO hold up their right hands. Immediately every
William Cohen. Lottie PersKv and Minnie Rosen
Joseph BaronGess was not In the city. having gone
to Philadelphia to speak at the meetings Oh the
William Cohen the business agent OF the Brother
hood. said yesterday that between 5000 ana IsVo
were now on strike and that 1000 more wpra go
T5oy n he ia oe Lf one which
orally has had nothing In common with the 0thsr
East Side ,ailors Mr.. Cohen declared that all the
the week. making about hrty-hye tnonsa n
defined TO becomc the Leader Of the strikers. Mr.
Cohen will act in that capacity with the neip OF the
News vas received at the headquarers OF the
committee YESTERDAY afternoon that one thousanS
Of Rrooklyn according 20 Meyer Schoenteld the
phla and II is possible that other strikes VIII
follow among the garment workr hc, OF c,es The
contractors, Schoenfeld says. arc entiTly fespon-
sibe for the trouble as they have broken me
This was to have lasted year, but many OF me
contractors broke 1t last winter, Just after the
Unicr Individual bonds to observe the terms OF the
| agreement and he brotherhood has not decided
grs forfeit their bonds or not The leaders. how
ever say there is money in the srea ha TO to
waste in litigation. they want all they nave got
20 conduct the present strike TO successlul lssue
There was a number Of exciting scenes ABOUT .ne
halls of the strikers and of the shops in the
course Of the day The most exciting was short
siege OF the shop of Woof Levy az GLanG ana
Orchards;s By four or lve hunare are S,r, wv tho
20 taiiors in the place had not stopped work The
Sa led 70 the S down TO from aVG Se widows
and make gestures II appeared that yesterday
was pay day in the factory and the propr!etors had
Sa1 %o I'd not GG a * h people in the
came demonstritiye at last that the ponce hau
TO be called 10 dispense them. ~
The contractors held an illorma! meeting az NO
50 Ciinton-st. yesterday. but came 10 no decision:
| than TO say that the low prices which they re-
| celyed from the manufactu rers OF clothing pre-
vented them from paying the aors higher wases
| yesterday the children's jacket maKers VINO
out about three thousand strong Tnn bo
meetings to-day decide whether or not 10 strike'