The evening world., 1912-01-03
LAUNDRY STRIKE
MUST Be ENDED,
PATRONS CLAM0R
Employers Mobbed by Depend.
ent Wash Contractors at
Their Meeting.

A meeting Of employing laundrymen.
to discuss the strike In the trade. at
Harlem Casino his afternoon was
mobbed by the owners Of 20 called
hand laundries." who clamored for a
settlement Of the strike. The twenty
one members Of the Laundrymen's
Association do all the real washing. by
machinery. Of the hand laundry" men
on contract. The hand ~laundries" do
merely the smoothing and polishing
sometimes by hand and sometimes by
machinery. t
Besides the hand laundrymen" there
were delegations OF hotel and restaurant
keepers. who insisted that II the strike
were no settled within q few days a
cooperative association would be
formed to do such work at cost for
members.
Under this pressure the members OF
the association agreed to meet Col
Michael J. Regain and representatives u
the strikers and draw up a peace treaty
tomorrow morning. The strikers are
confident Of winning most OF their
demands.
Laundry Workers Local No. "a Joined
Local No. 1875 to-day and the workers
went on a strike as fast as they finished
the jobs In their shops. Thirty-ive thou
sand had stopped work before noon.
The employers. as the union workers
| had expected. tried to relieve the situa-
| ton by sending much Of their rough
dry work to Brooklyn. As q result.
Local No. 81. which rules the destinfes OF
shirt ironers and neck n Wristbands
in the Rubberplant borough. declared
for the strike to-day and will quit to-
night.
JERSEY WON'T WASH NEW
Works DIRTY LINEN.
The Jersey City Local voluntarily
sent word to william Armour. president
Of No. l2s, that II any attempt wal
made to shift washing contracts to the
other side of the Hudson. the Jersey
unions would not hesitate to start q
sympathetic strike.
True TO their training. the delivery
boys lived up to the spirit of the trade
by abandoning their wagons hued with
packages belonging to patrons all oves
the upper city. to-day. They were kind
enough to unhitoh the horses and take
them TO the stables. But the childrer
OF the street were free TO sack h a
n and parade the sidewalks In my
lady's most intimate apparel. And thei
did. t,..r
In the shops whore workers wers
finishing jobs before going on strike
they %humorously showed their con
tempt for their employers by writing
Jokes and jibes on shirt fronts (of pat
rons) with greasy black pencils. Such
merry jests they were. too!
Mr.. Armour eaid to-day that he had
no doubt Of a complete victory for the
strikers within "a week.
This Is no lake strike cooked up e
Justify the organization Of a new union
he said. Our union has been In exist
ence twenty-five years. Our demands
are founded on rights. Our people worl
In rooms where slop and suds are a
times ankle deep.
"They work in an atmosphere OF steam
from foul linen; MANI shops are In. sun
Easements and are not decently lighted
In shops where machinery Is Target,
used there are constantly accidents
which could be prevented by the sim
plest protective devices: the days ar,
unduiy long. running from twelve I,
eighteen hours. With the general i'm
provement In the condition OF labor. tn,
time has COM for these things to b