The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-30
100000 CLOTHING
MAKERS 60 OUT
ON STRIKE
Ask More Wages and Abolition
of Cellar Shops
1000 PLACES ARE AFFECTED
Leaders Declare That Skilled Men
Workers are Employed at So Per
Week and Women Get Less.

New York, Dec. 30.-One hundred
and fifty thousand men, women ard
children employed in the mems
clothing industry in New York city
were ordered to 90 on strike tccay
by the local executive committee OF
the united male garment workers
OF America at meeting yesterday
Action to this effect was authorized
by big majority in a recent vote of
the workers Four thousand shops
GTe expected to be affected II the
order is obeyed. Crowds of workers
thronged The streets outside the
building whore the meeting was held
and cheered when the strike decis-
person %ere prevented by the police
from paradlng through the Eastsi1e
to show their approval of he order.
After the local committee met, the
national executive committee gave
IL Endorsement aid I0ted y place
+. a. Rickert of Chicago, chairman
at the head of the strike Other ma.
tional committeeman present includ-
ed Victor Altman of Buffalo, Meyer
Schwartz of Cincinnati, Abraham
Gordon of Baltimore. Frank Doyle
of Syracuse and John Bush of Cana
da. No announcement was made
whether the presence of practically
all of the national committee was an
indication that the strike would be
extended TO other cities.
Fifty national organizers were
appointed as aids to National Chair.
man Rickert. and il was announced
that 1000 pickets would be scattered
about the city this morning to inter.
cept workers not obeying the strike
| order. A committee of 1000, under
Abraham Cahan, editor of Forward,
Jewish daily newspaper, will work
with the national chairman.
The demands of the workers have
not been formally presented to en-
| ployers, representatives of the latter
| said. Henry Waxman treasurer of
the national committee explained
this yesterday as follows: THE
manufacturers give no notice in ad-
vance when they are going to cut
wages and we are following the same
tactics"
ne SuUCoHlTdCL system, Wnlcn Is
declared to have led to labor in dark
tenements, and child labor, figures in
the demands. The abolition of both
is asked for Other demands are a
20 per cent wage increase, with a
minimum wage scale of $40 a week
for women and SIC for men; over
time work to be paid for at time
and half rate, and holiday time at
double rates, and clean and sanitary
workshops. Strike leaders, discuss
ing the demand for better wages,
said that men have been receiving as
low as So a week. and women less.
Manufacturers declare their readi-
ness to meet the emergency. They
said yesterday they would have new
employees on hand today to take the
places of the strikers. Eugene Ben
Jamin, president of the New York
clothing trade association, said he
did not think that more than 20 per
cent of the garment workers would
walk out. Yesterdays decision to
strike came as surprise to those
who sought to bring about the ap-
pointment of an arbitration board by
the international peace forum, which
had expected the strike leaders TO re-
port today their acceptance or re-
lection OF a mediation offer.