The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
Compromise Reached Which Is Suitable to Employ
 CTS and Employees
PREFERENTIAL UNION
 SHOP IS THE BASIS
Manufacturers Agree to Maintain Union shops But May Employ Non-Union Workers If They Are Needed
 in the Shops

New York, September 2.-The cloak makers strike, one of the industrial dis turbances in the history of American labor, was settled tonight.
 Seventy thousand employees will return to work. Ten thousand of them and those dependent on them-50,0Oo souls in all were on the point of eviction and hundreds have already been forced into the streets. The industrial loss to em- ployers and employees has run high into the millions. In loss of wages alone the total has been estimated at more than 100000, while the loss to manufactur- ers jobbers and retailers the country over have been computed at ten times that amount.
 In spite of the stupendous readjust- ment involved, the strike has been, in the main, notable for it's peacefulness. There were numerous cases of petty disorder and a petition of the manufac- turers brought forth from Justice Golf of the state supreme court an injunction in which he ruled that any strike called to demand the closed shop was in re- straint of trade.
 Julius Henry Cohen counsel for the Manufacturers association, described the agreement signed by him and the repre- sentatives of the strikers in this sen- tence:
 No Principle Surrendered
 ''No principle has been surrendered by the manufacturers yet the unions may claim they have won a great victory for their people. The manufacturers be- lieve in the union and the principle that all who desire it's benefits should share in It's burdens
 "One essential 'ictory and one important not cl ne strikers, but to the nation at fich wears their output, is the R of all contract work at home fs garments made in New York VI de under sani- tary conditions. III be no more sweatshops."
 The rock on vise revious efforts of mutual conciis of split has been the closed shop. has now been avoided by the q the prefer cntial union shol a9 which Louis Brandeis of Bost fy counsel for
  is given full credit.
 In the articles of agreement the idea is thus described:
 Each member of the Manufacturers association Is to maintain a union shop, a union shop being understood to refer to a shop where union standards as to working conditions hours of labor and rates of wages, prevail and where. when hiring help, union men are pre- ferred; it being recognized that since there are differences of degrees of < skill, employers shall have the free dom of selection as between one union nan and another, and shall not be con- fi,1sd to any list nor bound to follow any prescribed order whatever"
 Important Provisions
 Other articles provide for these more impo,tant points:
 l. Electric power free.
 NO work at home.
 A. DIscipline of any manufacturer nroved guilty of discrimination among his emIloyes
 4. siJ days a week and cash week. ly pay Jay.
 s. All sub-contracting within shops abolished
 Nine hours a day work five days a week and five hours the sixth day.
 '. The pyice of piece work to be agreed unor by a committee of em- ployes and employers.
 ., Double pay for overtime.
 Remarkable Declaration
 MT. Cohen concludes his statement with the folloXing declaration remark able for one in his position:
 "Trades unidns are not only neces- sary but must pe guided and strength ened. have bot been fighting your unions; I have been fighting for what I believed were the rights guaranteed by the laws ofS the country to my clients.
 "I want now ta lend my help to strengthen your orGanization and se- cure for it wise leadership I shall urge my clients tol use every legiti- mate means to that end and I shall urge upon them strongly that each present employe In their shops join the union. You muft help by urging your people to be peaceful and quiet in returning to their work and in meeting those who are not now union men,"
 The settlement of tthe strike averts a crisis on the crowded East Side" With thousands out lof work and una ble to pay rent, the lcourts were liter ally swamped with eviction proceed ings and the prospect was that thous- ands of mothers and children would be rendered shelterlesst Many were evicted yesterday but it Is believed that landlords apprised of the ad- justment will now grant several days of grace