Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-03
CLOAK MAKERS WIN
SIGNAL VICTORY
Seventy Thousand Garment Max
ers Who Have Been Idle for
Months to Return to Work.
WAGE LOSS WAS s1o,0oo,ooo
Closed shop Rock Avoided by Adop-
ton of preferential Union
shop Idea.

New York. Sept. 1.-The cloak max
ers' strike. one of the greatest Indus
trial disturbances In the history OF
American labor. was settled tonight
Seventy thousand garment workers
who have been idle for nine months
will return to work. Ten thousand
and those dependent upon them-50, 900
souls in all-were on the point of evic-
ton, and hundreds had already been
forced on TO the streets. The Industrial
loss to employers and employees has run
high into the millions In loss of wages
alone the total has been estimated at
more than sl0,0OO.00O. while the loss
TO manufacturers. jobbers and retailers
the country over has been computed at
10 times that amount.
In spite OF the stupendous readjust-
ment involved. the strike has been in
the main notable for peacefulness.
There were numerous cases OF petty
disorder. and a petition OF the manu-
facturers brought forth from Justice
Cor OF the state supreme court an in
junction in which he ruled that any
strike called To demand the closed shop
was in restraint OF trade,
Julius Henry Cohen, counsel for the
Manufacturers association. describes
TIC ciklltb ny MN ana rep
resentatives of the strikers In this sen~
tence:
mo principle has been sacrificed by
the manufacturers, yet the union may
claim they have won a great victory
The manufacturers believe in the union
and the principle that all who desire
Its benefits should share in Its bur-
dens"
one essential Of this victory and one
1nDOrtAnt not nDIV a tho fpfL but
to the nation at large is the abolition
OF all contract work at home. Here
after garments made In New York Will
be manufactured under sanitary condi-
tions. There VIII be no more sweat
shops
The rock on which ali previous efforts
at mutual Cancellation have split has
been the closed shop. That rock has
now been avoided by the adoption Of
the preferential union shop" idea for
which Louis +. Brandeis OF Boston
formerly counsel for CLAWS in the PIN.
chot -Ba!linger hearing, is given fun
credit.
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.
In the articles of agreement the idea
Is thus described:
Each member of the manufacturers
IL to maintain union shops, union shops
being understood to refer TO a shop
conditions. hours OF labor and rates OF
wages prevail. and whore when hiring
help, union men are preferred; IL being
recognized that since there are differ
ouccs OF degrees OF skill, employers shall
have the freedom and selection as be-
tween one union man and another and
shall not be confined to any list nor
bound to follow any prescribed order"
Other articles provided for these
more important points:
First--EleCtr1c power free.
Second-No work at homes.
Third-DisCipline of any manufac-
turer proved guilty OF discrimination
among his employees.
Fourth-Six days work a week and
a cash weekly payday.
Fifth--An sub-Contracting within
shops abolished.
Sixth-Ninc hours work day. I'VE
days "A week and five hours the sixth
day.
Seventh-'rhe price Of piece work to
be agreed upon by a committee of en-
ployes and their employers.
Eighth--Doube pay for overtime.
Mr.. Cohen concludes his statement
with the following declaration. remark
able for one in his position:
Trade unions are not only neces-
sary but must be guided and strength
cned | have not been fighting your
unions; | have been fighting for what
believed were the rights, guaranteed by
the laws of the country to my clients"
The settlement OF the strike averts
crisis on the crowded west side with
thousands out of work and unable 10
nay rent. the courts were literally
a ...lf a.