Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-30
.I5O,0O0 Garment
 Workers Strike
FOUR THOUSAND NEW YORK
 SHOPS AFFECTED.
TAKES EFFECT TODAY
Alleged Child Labor Figures in De-
 mands of EmpIoyes-Men Said to
 Have Received as Low as $e a Week

New York, Dec. 29.-One hundred and fifty thousand men, women and children employed in the mems cloth ing industry in this city were ordered to go on strike tomorrow by the local executive committee of the United Male Garment Workers of America at a meeting today. Action to this effect was authorized by a big majority in a recent vote of the workers. Four thousand shops are expected to be af- fected if the strike order is obeyed.
 Strike Decision Cheered.
 Crowds of workers thrcnged the street outside the building where the meeting was held and cheered when the strike decision was read to them, Hundreds of persons were prevented by the police from parading through the East Side to show their approval of the order.
 Endorsed by National Committes.
 After the local committee met the national executive committee gave it's endorsement and voted to place T. A. Rickert of Chicago, chairman, at the head of the strike. Other national committeeman present included Victor Altman, Buffalo; Meyer Schwartz, Cincinnati: Abraham Gordon, Balti- more; Frank Doyle, Syracuse, and John Bush, Canada. No announcement was made whether the presence of practically all of the national com mittee was an indication that the strike would be extended to other cities.
 A Force of 1000 Tickets.
 Fifty national organizers were ap- pointed as aides to National Chairman Rickert and it was announced that one thousand pickets would be scat tered about the city tomorrow morn ing to intercept workers not obey ing the strike order. A committee of one thousand under Abraham Ca- han, editor of a Jewish daily news paper, will work with the national chairman
 The demands of the workers have not been formally presented to em- ployers, representatives of the latter said. Henry Waxman, treasurer of the national committee, explained this today as follows:
 Following Tactics of Employers.
 Tine manufacturers give no notice In advance when they are going to cut wages and we are following the same tactics" The sub-contract system which 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 twenty per cent. wage increase with a minimum wage scale of 9i0 a week for women and s1s for men overtime work to be paid for at a "time and half rate and holiday overtime al double ratesI and clean and sanitary workshops.
 Some Men Receiving $8. Strike leaders, discussing the de- mand for better wages, said that men have been receiving as low as $8 a week and women less.
 Manufacturers declare their readi- ness to meet the emergency. They said today they would have new employees on hand tomorrow to take the places of the strikers. Eugene Benjamin | president of the New York Clothing Trade association, said he did not think more than 20 per cent. of tho garment workers would walk out. To6ay's decision to strike came al a surprise.
 lntimation of Other Strikes.
 Threats that similar strikes nigh be called in other cities were uttered | Dy leaders who addressed severa thousand garment workers in mas. meeting tonight.
 The garment workers In Philadel phia, Utica and Syracuse are watch. ing you anxiously," declared Franl Doyle. national trustee from Syracuse Not clothing manufacturer in thosi cities will dare send clothes to New York. If they do their employees vii strike. The whole country is with yol and if in any one city the employer attempt to send garments to New Yorl the strike will spread to that city"
 Urged to Be Orderly.
 The garment workers were urged tt carry on an orderly strike as one wa, of winHing public sentiment.