New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-13
TA|LORS FEELING T|E-UP
Strike Affecting Trade in Many
Shops Throughout City.
WILL ORGANIZE
Say They Have Nothing Official
as to Observation-Disclosures
Workers Stand Firm.

The effect of the strike of the custom
tailors was felt everywhere yesterday
Throughout the city, though ii was reported
that all the custom tailors were not on
strike The many shops on Fifth avenue
and upper Broadway were affected besides
numbers of shops on lower Broadway, and
in the downtown section from below Wall
street 10 Beekman street Brooklyn also
felt its effect.
The Merchant Tailors Protective Asso-
citation and the Neckwear Manufacturers
Protective Association, both of which were
temporarily formed as result of the strikes
of the tailors and neckwear workers, VIII
hold meetings at the Broadway Central
Hotel tomorrow in order to organize per
manently and TO adopt policies regarding
the strikes.
Neither the merchant tailors nor the
neckwear manufacturers would say in ad-
vance of the meetings what their policy
would be. but it said they were pre-
pared TO deal fairly with their employees
and they would not discuss the question
of the closed shop.
l. Haas. of the Merchant Tailors Asso-
citation, went to the headquarters of the
striking tailors to find out what the actual
demands of the strikers were. When seen
later he said:
Il went unOfficially, not as a member Of
the association l could not get very
definite statement as to the demands. They
want US, however, I learned, to pay as
much TO the poor workman as to the best
workman. This would eventually lower the
wages of the best men if we agreed to such
a proposition"
President H a. RitChie. of the associa-
ton said that the call to the meeting to-
morrow addressed TO all the merchant
tailCrs in the greater city. There were
a bout thirty-five thousand workers in the
trade in the city, including operators, fin
ishers and others. he said, and he was
quite ready to believe the statement of the
strike leaders that twenty thousand custom
tailors were on strike.
Il can say nothing as to our policy" he
said Some of the strikers. when they
were called out. did not know what they
were on strike for. We are ready to grant
any reasonable request of our employees,
but we have received no official demands
from them
Martin G. Ansorge. counsel for the Neck
wear Manufacturers Association, had sew
cation at his office No. 100 Broadway, yes
torday. He said he had nothing to add TO
his statement OF Tuesday until the asocia-
tion effects permanent organization to-
morrow. except to say that ali the employ
ers were disposed to treat their employees
fairly and to consider any grievances which
tEey thought they had.
There were no regular meetings of either
the striking neckwear workers or the strik-
ing custom tailors yesterday afternoon. as
most of the strikers are Jews and the Jew
ish fast of Yom Kippur began at shutdown.
Miss Mary Van Vleeck, Of the WOmens
Trade Union League. reported that, as
result Of investigation she volunteered
TO make she found fifty neckwcar factories
which were unsanitary.
Hugh Frayne, general organizer Of the
American Fedora ton of Labor, to whom the
settlement committee of the neckWear
workers makes its reports. said that dur
inp Yesterday five large manufacturers had
made settlements.
The Women's Trade Union League, it was
stated. will meet tomorrow TO arrange
plans for aiding the striking neckwear girls.
Miss Mollie Hamer. the strike leader, said
that strikes will be ordered in every city
where work is done for New York neck
wear manufacturers during the strike