The evening world., 1912-01-02
10000 STRIKERS
CL0SELAUNDR|ES,
PARALyzE TRADE
Big Houses That Do the Real
4, Washing for Middlemen
f. Stop Business.
MORE WILL QUIT WORK.
Trouble Reveals Employers
Plan to Combine Into a
Great Trust.
MORE WILL QUIT WORK.

New Yorkers, except the unspeaksbiy
t1ah, who maintain laundresses in their
homes. face the prospect of a clean coll
lar and shirt famine because Of tho
laundry strike which started Saturday.
For Il Il almost certain that no public
3aundry 10 going to complete any work
Tor at least q week and perhaps longer.
Department stores and haberdashers
are sending rush orders to Troy for i'm.
mense extra stocks for those who would
rather buy new clothes than 20 dirty.
Five big laundries were closed by the
strike on Saturday. Twenty more closed
early to-day. meaning that 5000 laun-
dry workers refused to continue under
present conditions Of the trade. These
were laundries known as rough dry
houses"
Late this afternoon II was announced
that several laundrfes hes signed asree-
ments to come to the strikers terms
when formulated. The strikers Will not
attempt to get the Laundrymen's Asso-
oiAdon into concerted action They say
such . thing is impossible. Each en-
ployer mus sign for himself.
On the other hand The girls employed
In the Heath Laundry In Harlem. which
has many branches, refused to strike.
though the men washers and delivery
boys went out. A committee was ap-
pointed to go TO the main laundry at
st. Nicholas VENUE and One Hundred
and Thirty-sixth street at quitting time
and wait upon the girls.
CLOSED PLACES ARE THE REAL
WASH HOUSES.
Though most Of the persons who
patronize laundries do not know 1t, the
places which hang out their signs and
have delivery wagons which call At
your door when the driver happens to
feel like Il are merely starchlng and
polishing houses. They let out the
washing or real cleansing work to the
rough dry houses. In some instances
they suo let out the starching and pol
lshipG and are merely middlemen. TAX
Ing a proht on the process Of aggravAt-
tag the eommon victim. the public.
The closing OF a rough dry house
means that from fifty to one hundred
mail iaundries close. At the beginning
Of to-day there were eighteen thousand
persons away from their tubs. mangles
~ ironing boards
william Armour, President OF Local
No. II, which Ia ON strike. called into
D conference the Presidents of Local
No. u Of Manhattan and Local No. 81
Of Brooklyn. to-day. They reported
that their unions would support the
strike in Manhattan at once. No. 3~s
people to so out rs soon a. the work
In hand was finished.
A committee Of the Central Labor
Union went to Commissioners LedefA "a
ask the Board Of Health to cot against
~unsapitary conditions in laundries. Cir
pickets were sent everywhere thr3A{r
ths.dty. An effort will be made to.Hsss
the hotel %laundries; the In
them complain that working In sloppy
steaming rooms In tho subceilar will
diu6 artificial light u ruinous to health
II the employing la~undrymen show
disposition to get out Of the scrape b,
uending their customers wash to Brook.
lyp, the rough dry houses on that sids
Of the East River will be called out
adding 2V.Vp to the strike army. Tint
man who cannot afford to buy Q com
lpaete outfit Of fresh linen every day vii
have no source except the Chinese
laundries. The yellow men need extri
money these days. anyway, to sent
home for the Chinese REVOLUTIONARY
they are likely to get II.
WILL SUPPLY WORKERS FOE
PRIVATE HOMES.
H~ouseholders rave one other resourc
than the yellow II the presen
plans OF the officers Of the union ar
carried out an employment bureau WI
be started In a day or two where iaun
dresses who are on strike may be en-
Eared for work in private homes
Thus they will accomplish the douoi
purpose Of earning money while AVA
from the shops n OF making tn
householder independent OF the lordl'
delivery boy and the snappy fem-l
person who says over the telephone
"You will get your laundry when 1t !
ready and not beforehand II you max
any more fuss over It we will chang
your charge account to c. O. D."
The strike uncovered a general pla
fos q Laundry Trust! Seekers afte
news who went to get the employer