The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-20
UNION MATTERS
SEE CHANCE OF
SPEEDY VICTORY

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Viewers Colosseum, Springfield avenue,
for l o'clock Friday Afternoon.
Mr.. Moffitt will address the meeting,
and a number of prominent men of the
national organization will speak.
Frank P. Shalvoy, vice-president of
the United Hatters, today said that
he thought that there was every pros
pect of an early settlement Of the
trouble because he claimed that some
of the members of the Associated
Manufacturers were leaving the or
ganization in order to get the use of
the union label and continue business.
This is denied, however, by members
of the association.
There was a special meeting of the
officers of the Hat Makers, Hat Fin
ishers', Hat Trimmers' and Weighers'
unions at Sc South Orange avenue, TO
hear reports from the committees APP
pointed yesterday to learn the condi-
tons at the different shops in the city.
Each committee offered glowing re-
ports and declared that no attempt had
been made as yet by any firms that had
refused to use the union label
toward resuming business with
strike-breakers. The members of
TIE IIllIlflleGS anu Sle1S uillOlS
said that while the shops might
get a few men without the help of their
members, no work could be completed,
as they claim that they hold the key to
the situation.
The officers of the Trimmers' and
Weighers' unions say that there is no
doubt about their standing by the men
to the last.
All the employees of the Hudson Hat
Company, at New and Hoyt streets,
quit work today when the union label
was removed from the shop. The firm
is a member of the Associated Fur
Felt Hat Manufacturers, but it refused
to obey the request of the organization
to remove the label until today.
AT a mass-meeting of the hatters in
the Orange armory yesterday after
noon President John A. Moffitt said:
This is my first public speech since
the beginning of this lockout, for a
lockout it is, n not a strike, as the
manufacturers would have the public
to believe.
The manufacturers charge the union
with violating their agreement by TAX
ing the label from the Guyer Hat Com
pany of Philadelphia and refusing to
~ ~ i'iSti ~ WI III tIaL y y
without informing the Manufacturers
Association. How could we take the
label out of a factory that never had
the label? The label was never given
to them after they left Boston,"
Mr.. Moffitt declared that the trouble
with the Guyer firm was only a sub
terfuge, and that the real issue at stake
is the elimination of the label, which,
If accomplished, will e~ffectually destroy
the whole union organization. I'm that
event" said Mr.. Moffitt, 1--WE would
revert to conditions prevalent some
fifteen years ago, when the life of a
halter was worse than serfdom.
THE manufacturers will accuse us
of violating an agreement on a tech
nicality, vet make no mention of the
action of several firms in employing
boys at IS a week, when if agreements
were lived up to union men should
have been doing that work at $40 to
$25 a week.
Eagles Hall, on Cone street, is open
daily from 10 a. m t. 10 p. M. for any
of the hatters that desire to assemble
there, and the office of the two local
unions in the Lindsey building on Main
street will be open, where information
will be given out by the officers to the
men on any new phase in the fgh.
The women me this afternoon In
Eagles Fall to discuss the situation