Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
Cloak Men
Frightened
Walkers Committee Gets
Many Requests for Open
ing Negotiations.
NO CHANCE FOR ANY
OF THE sCABS
strike of Garment Makers De-
cared by Gompers to Be
Greatest Ever.

Tho strike of the cloak makers as
I'D national Importance yesterday
s.han samuel Gompers, president Q.
w. American Federation of Labor, and
Laha Lennon, treasurer, arrived III
jim jim work. and took active charge OF
tbe strike situation
Dnring the afternoon Gompers an''
mon were in conference with Presl
dant rosenberg and the other strike
,oadars at the Victoria Hotel, ana
.s1ans and preparations were made e
p,ess any and every emergency tina,
noioht arise during the continuance %
'A president Gompers thought that the
...aaassfnl issue of the strike OF so
oroat Importance to the labor move
snont in America that he decided TO
remain in New York during the mex
,Haall and come in touch with tn
$4,000 strikers personally. Monday ana
tuesday Gompers will address scores
of meetings until every one OF tn.'
K OOO men and women on strike VII
have the chance to see and near tnA
national labor leader.
At the close Of the conferences Isl
dore Epstein, chairman of the press
cammittee of the strikers, issued thv
following statement:
"Gompers declares this to De the
largest strike of its kind in number
that has ever taken place in this coun
try. This is a strike against the con-
tinuance of inhuman conditions unuei
which the workers in this country nave
.been laboring. When the actual con-
=. ditions are made known to the world.
the s,lpport of the laboring people OF
- the the entire country will soon be forth
coming. People are beginning TO
realize the deplorable conditions they
are laboring under.
John B. Lennon has offered MS
services to help the leaders in their
struggle. Gompers will go among the
strikers and assure them of the sup
port of the organized workers tnrous-
out the country.
INDUSTRY CRIPPLED
s, Not a stroke of work in the cloak
making industry in New York was
done during the day yesterday. The
tieup was admitted to be overwheim-
ingly complete and effective even by
some of the manufacturers. During
the day the settlement committee re-
ceived more than a hundred calls by
telegram, telephone. and special deliv-
cry, from some of the largest manu-
i, facturers, who requested that the com
mittee submit the demands OF TINS
union to them at once with view OF
bringing. about a speedy settlement
The committee has in every case in
formed the employers that the de-
mands of the union could not be issued
before Monday, as this was a physical
impossibility in view of the amount o.
work the committee had on hand.
Picketing of the shops where the
strike is on is more of formality IN
the present strike The reason is sim
ply the fact that the bosses do no!
even attempt to run their shops Will
scabs. 1t would be an impossibility fol
them to do so had they tried. The
strike is too overwhelmingly genera
and effective for handful of scabs t.
do the employers any good.
Besides. it was pointed out at unior
headquarters, scabs are only gooc
when they have some one with then
who knows the business well. In ths
present instance not single man, whit
is an all around cloak maker. is to b
found in any shop.
ROSENBERG, NAILS LIE.
During the day President Rosenbert
emphatically denied the statement
made by a morning paper to the effec'
that several bankers offered to financt
the strike to the extent Of 500. 900.
81 have made no such statement. t
the paper in question" President Ros
enberg said. No bankers made an.
such offers to us, and IL such ofEer
had been made, they would have beel
promptly rejected. We expect tn
working class to fight it's own battles