The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-01-25
CONSPIRACY IN STRIKE,
SAY HAND LAUNORYMEk
Testify Before State Board That
Steam Men Would Drive
Them Out.
LABOR LEADER DENIES IT
american Federation Representative
Asserts the Idea Of Plot
Is Absurd.
LABOR LEADER DENIES IT

Another eiort was made yesterday a. A
supplementary hearing Ivy the members
Of the stat" Board Of Mediation and A,
btration on the causes which led % ne
strike of the laundry workers o unra~c
the mysteries of the laundry trade ~
New York The hearing took place n TO
Offices Of the state board. 3sl Four,l
avenue. Chief Mediator Rogers pres in.
|; was callrd 10 give tho peopr.ctors ol O.
hand laundries and tho steam bundle
laundries an opportunity n prescn' '-or
side oG 'ae case.
The latter are the concerns which do
not uso the hand laundrles as collectt9E
and distributing agencies. Most Of them
are IA an orCani-lt ION known a. tIc Ma
haitian Laundry club. Seven or elCut u
the proprietors Of hand laundries we',
examined and said the hand laundrin.
wrre a necossltv owing 10 the develop
ment of the industry. Two hand launG~r
owners, Samuel PlGt2ek OF 32s East -Four
teenth street and Isidor Sedler OF Pr
West l"1'h street. said the strike was the
result uf a comb nation among the steam
iuUudryruen, who We're using them 'hev
sad, ~ a-eucies 10 drive the 1000 or 90
hand iaGndgI"s in the city out ofexI>'ence
ami star; steam bundle liundries
benjamin Tolani. another hand laun-
drymlu said III" steam laundry pro-
prleturS WEI responsible for the spread
ot nr tlni Ian ni"l">
"ll"y huI" been tauiiug ABOUT abolish
| NJ thc naud laUrGrIc~, ne said. but Their
! former eNprrirn".- are against this plan
som" of the hand ldundrymen talk ed IN
aVagl" way about the union and the steam
| l"UEdrymru having some kind Of pact
| hv when the hand laundries would ha
driven out. ln"y also talked in the same
way about hand la,IUdr!"S being started
/ ou papcc and then sold to victims who
/ found tu"v had Lo trade. Charges were
! inadr based on hoarsav bv witnesses of
lm aErremru, between the union and
steam laundrym"n TO break up the hand
| laundri"s
'a'uh li2elaar, an organizer OF the
American Iederar ton Of Labor. who
| represented the UNION, got up and de-
aiir"i lhat such testimony was unfair.
! Ia" ldea Ot a conspiracy between the
un.uH and the employers is prepos'er-
ou-ly untrue. he declared
AthIs request the tr> monv he objected
I To was eNpung"i from the record
Morris Spl"lclglasS, president OF an
as>urIal ION ot hand laundrymeu, blamed
! ~" steam ldundrymen for the strike Ha
/ sad Jh" hand laundrymPn tried 10 bring
| about settlement OF the strike so tneY
| touId h""p their places open, hut lne
steam laundrymen would not listen 20
| them
| In the opinion of Edw ward LIGHT ems ten.
! proprietor of the Carolyn Laundry. which
| IL partly steam bundle concern, tHs
! trouble was because Of too much work
| given on: III the beginning Of the Wees.
which made the work ing hours inOrdl-
nately long he said
| Charles Van Doren. representing the
| Ntancourt Laundry a steam bundle firm,
! gave similar test mony.
! In" strike YVES discussed a. meedrE
in the evening III The Morningside PreSnv-
trrign Church. ted street and Morning.
I'd" avenue, Prof. Charles p. TaCnarl 4
: lulon Seminary presiding. Miss Leonor'
! ID'Heillv OF the " omen's Tlads | mon
! Lee gue described the condition IN 'as
| laund"es and aslEd for the cooperation
! of IA" m"mberS of the CongreEati'0 n
oncuura sing laundries which from N'
! trade union point of view We're far
I iirr description of the conditions 'u 80
| laundries Was based on the TESTIMONY -
the strikers who appeared o. witne-."'
a. IN" hearing before tn" stat" t.""''-
/ tors
Ia reply to u question Mis- O'E".V
s2'd that there We're too few factory .i'
/ sp"oiors Gnd thar with the present io''-
: of inspectors they could only has" '.'n"
20 INSPECT factory one" in year = iFY
went round ihom "iI.