New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-11
WOMEN co ON STRIKE.
Few of 10000 Necktie Workers
Who Go Out Are Men.
LOOK TO GIRL AS LEADER
Miss Mollie Hamer Has Spent
Eight of Her Twenty-on one
Years in Factories.

For several hours yesterday the streets
Of the East SIDE We're swarming with
women and girls from the neckwear fac
tories who went out in response to the
call for a general strike, and started for
clinton Hall. No. LII Clinton street, the
PRINCIPAL headquarters OF the strikers. The
men form such q small proportion of the
necl1ear workers that they We're hardly
noticeable How many went on strike yes
terday was difficult 20 estimate. The low
est estimate was ten thousand. and all
agreed that the other ten thousand would
quit to-day.
The NeckWear Cutters Union has its
regular headquarters al No = Third ave
rue but during the strike the general
strike headquarters in Manhattan VIII be
81 Clinton Hall While Abraham Miller.
general organizer OF the union, is recog-
rlzed formally as the leader of the strike.
Mss Nollie Ha1ner, a dark-eyed girl with
n husinesslike manner. is looked upon by
-he women as the real leader
Miss Hanaer. though she Is only twenty
enc years 81 age. has been 2 neckwear
worker for eight years. She said yesterday
that IL was time for a change in the con
ditions Of work.
The wages have been growing lower and
lover. until many of the workers have only
= Few dollars a week she continued. we
intend 10 have g minimum wage rate Of not
.less than s1o a week
Formerly neckwear worker could
make = neoktie. and now, by the SPECIALIZE
zion Of work six different kinds of work
frs and sometimes more are employed on
one necktie. and large quantities of them
gre turned out by the six In the case OF
most Of the neckties a cutter. operator,
-,,rner trimmer. point maker and box
maker are required TO make a tie or
course. the work turned ont in this way is
enormous. and this city has become the
great centre Of the trade.
Say Few Factories Are Sanitary
There are other complaints besides low
wages. There are unsanitary factories.
.onlv some of the large factories being san
.-fa-v. md the hours of work are too long
TT addition 10 this the girls are treated
very tyrannically bv many Of the fore
women. who act as If they owned the
factories II girl laughs or talks she is
liable 10 dismissal and if the foreWoman
talks 20 her IN an insulting WY she dare
not talk back All this viii have ia be
1enedied'
II was reported that q number Of the
manufacturers had made settlements. hut
70 strikers were to return 10 work before
NFondav William Schwartz. chairman OF
me strike ccr7r1aittee. said that forty-eight
manufacturers had settled. but before
Monday more were expected TO yield and
IN. en7plo1es Of all who had settled would |
go back in Z body
The cutters say they will not go hack |
~ work in any factory where the neck |
wear workers have not settled. The de- /
r1snds Of the neckwear cutters are for s2i |
= week and the Saturday half-hciiday all /
me wear round Their present wages are l
s21 2 week and they have the Saturday |
half holiday only during June. July and /
August
Employers Against Closed Shop.
Most of the manufacturers who were
seen YESTERDAY said that they did not un-
ders-and what the neckwear workers
wanted The only specific demands they !
have received. they said. were on behalf |
Of the cutters As 10 the recognition OF
the union, most Of the manufacturers said /
-hat. while they had nothing against the /
1Irior and would he willing 10 pay union /
RACES. thew would never agree 10 the |
CLOSED shop.
Some Of tle manufacturers said their |
employees admitted that until the strike 1
order came they Were satisfied with their /
conditions and wages. A meeting of man. /
-1farfurers VIII take place in the Broad /
way Central Hotel this afternoon to form I
81 association.
The strikers had mass meeting in 4
Clinton Hall late in the afternoon. Cen /
eral Organizer Miller. BENJAMIN Wein- /
x-rein general organizer OF the United He |
brew rades, - =. Epszein, who presided /
= Golds5ein and others spoke
The Leaders Of the Custom Tailors' 4
5-nion. which ordered strike four weeks 4
ago Of three hundred of its mem bers for |
higher wages and shorter Workday. an 4
bounced yesterday that II had Joined the /
nited Garment Workers Of America and 1
Ssd declared q general strike, 20 go into 1
effect today. The members Of the union I!
work on salts made TO order. Hyman |
Novik, secretary Of the union. said last 1
7ligIr that twenty thousand tailors would I
- affected by the strike.