The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-09-03
END OF THE
CLOAK STRIKE
Sweat Shops in New York to
Be Abolished.
LONG STRUGGLE AT END
Question of Closed Shops Avoided by
intermediate Agreement-Employ-
ers Favorlng Non-union Help
Will Be Punished.

New York, Sept. S.-The cloakmakers
strike, one Of the greatest industrial
disturbances in the history Of American
labor, was settled last night Seventy
thousand garment workers who have
been idle for nine weeks. will shortly
return to work Ten thousand Of them
and those dependent on them 1000
souls in all-were on the point Of star.
walton, and hundreds have already been
forced onto the streets. The industrial
loss to employees has run high into the
millions. In loss OF wages alone the
total has been estimated at more than
SlO,O000oO, while the loss to manufac-
tuners, jobbers and retailers the country
over has been computed at ten times that
amount.
In spite OF the stupendous readiust-
ment involved the strike has been in
the main notable for its peaceiulness.
There were numerous cases Of petty dis
order, and petition Of the manu-.
facturers brought forth from Justice Goa
of the supreme court an injunction in
which he ruled that any strike called
to demand the closed shop involved
conspiracy in restraint Of trade.
One essential Of this victory and one
important not only 10 the strikers but
to the nation at large which wears
their output, Is the abolition Of all con
tract work at home. Hereafter garments
made in New York win be manufactured
under sanitary conditions. There will
be no more sweat shops
The rock on which all previous efforts
at mutual cancellations have split has
been the closed shop. That rock has
now been avoided BY the adoption Of the
preferential union shop" idea for which
Louis d. Brandeis Of Boston, formerly
counsel for CLAWS, in the Balllnger-Pin
ehot investigation is given full credit.
In the articles Of agreement the idea
Is thus described:
Each member Of the manufacturers
IS to maintain a union shop; a union
shop being understood to refer to
shop where union standards as to work
Ing conditions, hours Of labor and rates
81 wages prevail, and where, when hir-
Ing help, union men are preferred It be-
Ing recognized that, since there are diff
ferenees Of degrees Of skin, employers
shah have the freedom Of selection as
between on union man and another, and
shall not Be confined to any list, nor
bound to follow any prescribed order
Other articles provide for these more
important points.
tll Electric power frees l2l no work (
i home; (sl discipline Of amy manu-
'aeturer proved guilty Of discrimination
lmong his employees; % six days work I
/ week and a cash weekly pay day; 60 /
II subeontracting within shops abol-
shed; CO., nine hours work a day FIVE
lays a week and five hours the sixth 1
layg "a the price Of piece work to be
agreed upon BY a committee Of en-
'loyees and their employers tsl double
Jay for over time.
The settlement Of the strike averts
crisis on the crowded east side. With
thousands out Of work and unable to
,ay rent, the courts were literally +
with eviction proceedings and
here arose the prospect Of thousands
i mothers and children being rendered
helterless. Many were evicted Thurs
ay, but It Ii believed that the land
ords, apprised Of tile adjustment will
low grant several days Of grace. Money
as been 80 tight on the east side that
many landlords are letting their rooms
y the week. on the theory that II
axes less time to winnow the paying
rom the penniless tenants