Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-03
SEVENTY THOUSAND ARE
TO AGAIN TAKE UP WORK
Counsel FOR Manufacturers Assccia-
.tion Issues Statement Admitting De
feat and Declaring In Favor Of Or
qanized labor-Total Loss In Wages
Estimated at $4,000, 900.

NEW YORK. Sept. 2.-The cloak
! makers strike. one of the greatest
Industrial disturbances in the history
of American labor. was settled to-
night. Seventy thousand garment
workers who have been idle for nine
weeks. will shortly return to work.
Ten thousand of them and those de-
pendent on them-5O 000 souls in all
were in point of eviction and hands
have already been forced onto the
streets. The industrial loss TO en-
pleyer and employees has run high
into the millions. In loss of wages
alone the total has been estimated at
more than $lO.00000O, while the loss
TO manufacturers. jobbers and retail
ers, the country over has been COM
puted at ten times that amount.
In spite Of the stupendous readjust-
ment involved. the strike has been
in the main. notable for its peaceful
ness
Julius Henry. Cohen. counsel for
the manufacturers association, de-
scribes the agreement signed by hin.
and representatives of the strikers
in this sentence:
Victof9 for Unions.
mo 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 the principle that all who desire
its benefits should share in its bur
dens.'
One essential of this victory and
| enc important not only to the strik-
ers, but to the nation at large. which
wears their output. is the abolition
of all contract work at home. Here
after garments madeSin New York
will be manufactured under sanitary
conditions. There will be no more
sweat shops.
The rock on which all previous eff
forts at mutual Cancellation have split
has been the closed shop That rock
| has now been avoided by the adop-
| ton of the preferential union shop"
| idea. for which Louis ID. Hrandeis. of
Boston. formerly counsel for Claws.
| in the Pinchot- Ballinger hearing, is
given full credit.
In the articles of agreement the
idea Is thus described:
Each member of the manufactur-
ers' association is TO maintain a
union shop. a union shop being under
| stood 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 mon are preferred; it being re-
cognizcd that. since there are diner.
ence of degrees of skill. employer ;
shall have the freedom of selecting
as between one union man and an
| other and shall not be confined to any
list. nor bound TO foIlo~ any pre-
scribed order whatever"
Other articles provide for these
| important points:
1-Electric power free.
| mo work at home.
1 2-DiscipIine Of any manufacturer
proved guilty of discrimination among
his employees.
| six days work a week and r
cash weekly pay day.
! 5-AIl sub-contracting within shops
abolished.
s-Nine hours work day. five
1 JAYS Ntt% anu Hft nuns tht StAth
day.
The price OF piece work to be
agreed upon by a committee Of en-
! ployes and their employers.
S-Dou5Ie pay for over time.
Nr. Cohen concludes bis staiemen;
with the following declaration. re-
markable for one in his position:
Trades unions are not only necss
sary bu; must ne guided and strength.
encd. have no, been fighting yOur
Unions: have been fiEEfing for what
believed were the rights guaranteed
Nv the laws Of the country TO my
clients.
Il want nov 10 extend nv help IN
strengthening your organization and
securing for IL wise Leadership.
shall urge my clients 10 use ever
/ legal means n that end. and ! shall
urge YOU on them strongly that each
present cmployo In their shops Join
the union You must help BY urging
your people 20 be peaceabie and quiet
H. returning 10 their work and IN
meeting those who are not nov unioa
mcn.~
The settlement ~ the strike avert
ID a crisis in the cast side. Thou
sands ont ~ work. the courts we're
suampcd with cviciions aud thou
ssnss If rrofhers faced the prospect
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