Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
CLOAK MAKERS
STRIKE IN NEW
YORK At END
10000 Garment Workers Will
Return to Work After Nine
Months IdIenesS
10000 AT EVICTI0N'S POINT
Industrial Loss Runs Into Mil
lions, Both Capital and
Labor Suffering
10000 AT EVICTI0NS POINT
Associated Pressl


NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-The cloak
dustrial disturbances in the history of
American labor, was settled tonight,
and 10000 garment makers who have
been idle for nine months will return
to work.
Ten thousand, and those dependent
upon them, $4,000 souls in ali. were on
the point of eviction, and hundreds had
already been forced into the streets.
The Industrial loss to employers and
employees has run high into the mil
lions. In loss of wages alone the total
has been estimated at more than $10,-
000, ,000 while the loss to manufacturers,
jobbers and retailers the country over
has been computed at ten times that
amount.
In spite of the stupendous readjust-
ment involved, the strike has been In
the main notable for peaceableness.
There were numerous cases of petty
disorder, and a petition of the manu-
facturers brought forth from Justice
Golf Of the state supreme court an in
junction in which he ruled that any
strike to demand the closed shop was
in restraint of trade.
julius H. Cohen, counsel for the man
ufacturefS dSSOCldIlOug uSSCIApSS Iu6
settlement reached in this sentence:
NO PRINCIPLES SURRENDERED
''No principle has been surrendered
by the manufacturers, yet the union
may, truly claim they have won a
great victory for their people. The
manufacturers believe in the union
and in the principle that all who de-.
sire it's benefits should share in its
burdens"
one essential of this victory and
one important not only to the strik-
ers, but to the nation at large, Is the
abolition of all contract work at home.
Hereafter garments made in New York
will be manufactured under sanitary
conditions. There will be no more
sweatshops.
The closed shop rock has now been
avoided by the adoption of the pre-
ferential union shop idea, for which
Richard D. Brandeis of Boston, Ior-
merly counsel for CLAWS in the Bal
linger- -Pinchot case, is given full
credit
In the articles of agreement the
idea is thus described:
Zach member of tho manufacturers
is to maintain union shops, union shops
being understood to refer to a shop
where union standards as to work
ing conditions, hours of labor and rates
of wages prevail, and wherein hiring
help, union men are preferred, 1t being
understood that since there are differ
ences. of. degree of skill employers snail
have the freedom of selection as De-
tween one union man and another,
and shall not be confined to any list
nor bound to follow any prescribed Or
der"
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT
Other articles provide for these moro
important points:
1. Electric power free.
2. No work at home.
q Discipline of any manufactures
proved guilty of discrimination among
his employees.
4. Six days work a week and cash
weekly pay day. 80,
5. All sub-contract1ng within shops
abolished.
a week and five hours to the sixth
day. - :.
Z. The price of piece work to De
agreed upon by committee OF en-
ployes and their employers.
g. Double pay for overtime.
Mr.. Cohen concluded his statement
with the following declaration, remark
able for one in his position:
'Trade unions are not only necessary
hut must be guided and strengthened.
have not been fighting your unions;
have been fighting for what be-
lieyed were the rights guaranteed by
fine laws of the country to my clients.
THE settlement of the strike averts
n crisis on tho crowded west side.
with thousands out of work and un-
able to pay rent, the courts were liter
aIly sWamped with eviction pro"
ceedings.