New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-13
DRESSMAKERS TO STRIKE
Committee Gives Order to Union
Members To Be Ready.
CARNEGIE HALL CROWDED
"Marseillaise" Played-Workers
Want $26 Minimum Weekly
Wage and Pay for Holidays.

Carnegie Hall was crowded last night
with members of the Ladies Taiiors anu
Dressmakers' Union in response 10 can
for mass meeting, and they were instruct
ed at the meeting to be I'm readiness LOT
general strike which the executive COM
mttee of the union has been empowered
to call at date to he fixed by IL. Man'
at the meeting. as one of the speakers re
marked. had never been in Carnegie han
before and hailed from the East side.
A strike Of these tailors and dressmakers
will affect 10000 persons. including the ehi-
ployes OF the Fifth avenue tailoring ana
dressmaking establishments. Pending inc
meeting last evening, an effort was maze
bv representatives of the tailors and dress
makers and the union, at a conference al
No. 90 Union Square, the headquarters Oh
tho International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union. with which the Ladies Iailors
and Dressmakers' Union is animated
Most of the employers are organized as
the Merchants Society Of Ladies Iaiiors
and Dressmakers. and were represented al
the conference by Richard II, Hicksoh'
president. and Walter II. Bartholomew
secretary. of the association. The demands
include minimum wage scale OF s2b week
and nav for HOLIDAYS. whether work Is done
on holidays or not. The employers COM
mittee offered compromise when was re-
jected and the negotiations were called on
The representatives Of the employers as
ISOLATION then told the tailors COMMITTEES
that IL a general strike was ordered Whlcn
affected all In the trade the members OF
the association would be willing to arpi-
trate but not otherwise. a meeting OF Tue
EMPLOYERS association was held later AZ
Tuxedo Hall. Madison avenue and o9tn
street. AZ which this position was inuor'e"'
Secretary Bartholomew sand later:
Among the employers there have heeh
two elements-the members of the assocld-
ton who had agreements with the union
and were bound to pay certain wages anu
the employers who had non-union men ana
were not so bound. We told the committee
representing the tailors that II the union
could pull ont all the men and women III
the trade and keep them out forty-eight
hours We would be willing to arbitrate the
demands, provided that the strike was Kept
up against other firms until all had settled.
[ am convinced however, that they cannot
order a general strike, and if partial
strike is ordered against our members we
will have nothing more To do with the
strikers
No strike vote was taken at the mass
meeting of the union in Carnegie Hall, as
the executive committee Of the union had
been empowered to call strike when 1t
believes the time is suitable.
Several speakers explained the situation
TO tho audience and Solomon Rosman, the
general organizer of the union, said that
the members must be in readiness for the
strike order which may be sent out at any
time.
Max Pine presided, and speeches were
made by b. Weinstein general organizer
of the United Hebrew Trades; Meyer Lon
don, Miss Leonora O'Reilly, Of the Wom-
ems Trade Union League, and others.
There was a strong strike sentiment In
the speeches The Marseilaise was played
by brass and string band.