New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29
GARMENT WORKERS OUT
ON GENERAL STRIKE
StandSti|I Came at Noon YeSter-
day, and Meeting Is Called
for To-day.
BIGGEST ONE IN HISTORY
May Be Joined by so, 900 Waist
Operatives and White Goods
Workers-Mrs. Bel.
mont Interested.

| All tHe UNION WOTheTS WIN
would be affected by the strike called In
their trade took the view yesterday that
| the walkout would occur as soon as the
| factories closed for the day. While the
date of the strike will not be formally de-
clared before a meeting which the strike
| committee will hold in the Forward
| Building. No. III East Broadway, this
! evening. the general feeling among the
workers when shop and factory closed
! for the Saturday half holiday was that
what might turn into the biggest cloth
| ing demonstration this country has ever
| seen was on.
| The strike committee sent out call
yesterday for one thousand volunteers to
come TO the meeting in the Forward
Building this evening, 10 be assigned TO
different points in the city for picket duty
and to see that the strike order has been
obeyed. The volunteers will be known as
The Committee of loo" All the places
available have been engaged in the mean
| time as headquarters for the strikers.
The labor leaders say that other strikes
are to follow on the heels Of the strikes
Of these garment workers. About thirty
thousand waistmakers and about twenty
thousand white goods workers are also
preparing TO strike. and a strong plea to
stand together was made at a meeting OF
| the white goods workers yesterday in
Liederkranz Hall, Manhattan avenue and
Meserole street, Brooklyn. by Miss Rose
Schneiderman. Of the executive committee
| of the Womans Trade Union League.
| She compared the white goods workers TO
the Israeltes in the days OF Pharaoh. be-
fore the fight from Egypt when their
task masters required them to provide
straw for the bricks they were making.
The white goods workers. she said were
required by their employers to supply
their own cotton.
! She then made plea 10 the white goods
workers to organize and said the time
| was coming when every one in the
audience would have 10 stand by her sis
ter. The strikes Of waistmakers and white
goods workers are expected 10 begin early
in Janaury.
meeting of the Clothing Cutters
Union, which is expected 10 Join in the
strike OF tho workers on mems and boys'
clothing this week was held in Beethoven
Hall. No 90 Fifth street last evening
| Many enrolments OF new members were
| made.
Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes, who has inter
1 ested herself IN many Of the strikes in
! this city, has taken an interest in the
| strike, beginning this week, but the time
has not come for her to volunteer as a
strike picket.
| II have learned" she said. that Mrs.
/ O. II. p. Belmont intends to help tho
| strikers. and that she purposes TO mold
mass meeting on their behalf In the Hip
| podrome some time next week. She also
/ ] believe intends To form an arbitration
commission. consisting OF representatives
| OF the employers, the employees and tho
public. to lead in a settlement in which
the best terms could be secured for the
| strikers"
Mrs. Stokes said she thought this would
be mistake. Better results could be OBJ
tanned for the strikers If they asked the
support Of any one else than the en-
ployers.
| Henry Waxman, chairman OF the Great
er New York District Council Of the
! United Garment Workers of America.
said last evening regarding the secrecy OF
the garment workers as TO when the
strike would be declared:
| The manufacturers never notified the
union or their employees when they were
! going TO cut wages. We are following
their tactics in calling the strike. We
will make the strike surprise 10 them.
| As to the statement of the manufacturers
| that they had canvassed their employees
and that they had decided not to strike
that is disproved by the strike vote
which was by secret ballot and was near
| ly unanimous"
| About four thousand factories and shops
will be tied up by the strike.
The International Peace Forum has Of |
! fered 10 form board OF arbitration to |
! take up all points Of the controversy be- |
tween the Garment Workers OF America |
! and the New York ClOthlers Assocta- |
zion, and. after investigation, to decide |
upon all questions on the evidence pre- |
scented, the decision to be binding upon all |
parties.
Dr. William Carter general secretary |
Of the Peace Forum, has sent a letter con- |
tanning this proposition 10 Eugene Ben |
jamin. president of the C1othiers Associ- |
alton, and a similar one to BENJAMIN 4
Schwetzer. organizer for the Garment |
Workers OF America.