The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-01-02
LAUNDRY WORKERS
GO OUT ON STRIKE
Many Employers Retallate by
Ordering a Lockout IN
Their Shops.
WHITE SHIRT FAMINE TALK
Estimate Of Men Out Varies
Widely, but Some Employers
Think Strike VIII Flz7le.

Tn" threatened strike Of 'h" laundry
workers started ahead Of time vcSter-
day, and according to members of laun-
dry Workers Union No ?8l. the vast army
of New York men who wear Numbered
shirts will bc put hard and driven to buy
newly Numbered shirts when they wish
clean ones The strike. II was announced,
has extended to the laundries which
cater to the hotels and high priced res
taurnnts
The number Of laundry workers who
will bc involved in tho strike will not he
known until to-day. Laundry Workers
Union No, POI is not large numerically
and there are two smaller unions. but in
/ cases like tn" present the strike leaders
say. the non-union workers usually
strk" with the union workers Most
of the lnundrics were closed Yesterday.
but some If the others not affected 10y the
strike were working Tho numbers given
a. on II strike ranged all the way from
| 1900 10 2O.ON. Some of the laundry
owners bcli"v" the entire trade will be
out to-day. while othcrs doubt ii
| Representatives. of the employers in
fifty steamI and hand laundry shops of
III" city met last evening in the Terrace
Garden. a member of the firm of VI Lang
fielder & Son said and most of them
/ decided tO shut down their plants un-
! Ill the difficulties between the em-
employers and the workers have been
! adjusted \ committee Of three from
/ the union. this member of the Lang
fielder firm said. waited on some of the
employers on Last Saturday morning
I Lot. -,l h...,,,I,.,, a
! This letter was a demand ON the part
Of the men in the union for a - per cent
increase IN salary, "a nine hour day and
double pay for overtime. The employers
asked for an extension of tim" of "a week
III which To confer ON IN" matter with J..
! committee of the union. bur IN" men de
| m.nd"d an imm"di.'" GuSwsr
som" employers decided last night that
their best move was To shut down their
| plGu's until IN. men would agree 10 r"a-
-un.hle methods of settling IN" difficult
| lies They maintain that to hand III u
| circular better of December o on December
unr"aSouHhl. lh"r" viii hn another
meeting tonight In" employers formed
an association.
"lu tn" present state Of tho trade"
Nr Iangf"ld.r sand 81; would b" cheaper
! 10 shut down and wait bccarl-. on" cam
not get any lucr"aS" IN prices from our
"ustomcrs Tn" very last thing that could
ho brought about would b" an ,ncr"aS,. IN
n" pric" Of laundry work II Is different
from any Other kind Of business IN tins
respect Tn" No." scale. including thu
conditions demanded. woulG max" our
business 80 "Np"nsiv" that would cease
10 raw if 10 We're IN operation
Mr.. ldnCf"li"r SIld TINT tn" str'k"
Affected IN" Brunswick. Prsus-. Shaw
ludependrnt. Cooperative, Upper West
81! 4 II. IL.
taud many other laundri", besides hI-
iuwn There wer" also the West Side.
kilhp~ and Yale laundrics, which ,,Iprli"d
hotel, and restaurants, involved. and h"
hell"v"i that all the aundrl"s would
b" tied mp
Laundry -ald that his workers hat cunt
and h" believed that the strike would h.
general to-day trauI faiiutiCo. pro-
prl"tor of tn" Liberty Steam Lauudr".
$50 East lui'h street. took II different yIrV,
of IN" matter He said hn p"rr-d tina
the .'rlk" would not amount to much
Il hav" had lltt" t'uuhI" - ia'" h.
continued The men mad" IA" d"md,,u~
bu' dldu' 20 ont this morning a. TIM
laundry ln"v said they would CIV" m,
an answer tu-muIrnw "a" lauuI ~
workers W"r" at work an day lu ~"y"rr
shops
The had,r Of th" strir" j. NuIan
Armour. president OF | oCal i.c rt tA.
laundry WORKERS In" Two other uniui,-
h." 49, i"C'"d. wO'Ild StrIk" IN -ym.aiuN
He admitted however mat som" ot N,
larger concerns would not be- affected
Each steam laundry. u" sad. Cpu'roIic,
from httv 10 "A hundred hands and Other
smaller liuuir"- On" uf ia" larg" firm.
which would not likely b" affected was
III" WG'ach Laundry. which has about q
dozen branches
- chang" i badly needed ~ many
of the plIr"s." he said "iud"p,udrut u
higher wages and shorter hours seventy.
/ iiV" per cent a. least OF the laundry
workers ar" women and in many of tn,
factories the hands that work from y VI
to II y VI are not allowed to -It dow
al their on" meal They hav" To bol
coffee and sandwiches standing We
have complained 20 the Board Of Health
. about this
I The lauudrles, Armour said. were
: picketed where there were strikes. bu
, there was no trouble so far He woulC
not have a complete report as 10 th'
: number of laundries involved and IN,
number Of laundry workers on strik,
= until this afternoon II was said tina
= there might be IS 900 or iO.OO0 laundry
workers in the city, but only a smal
part of them are in the union.
The laundry workers union has beer
: talking of strike for eighteen months
: This i the first attempt AZ "a general strl,
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