New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-03-28
GARMENT WORKERS ANGRY
Eager in Meeting for Strike Un'
less Offending Firm Yields.
SPEAKERS CHEERED WILDLY
Executive Board After Adjourn
ment Appoints Committee to
See Employers Body.

The temper Of the mass meeting of the
garment makers union at Carnegie Hall
last night was for another general strike
Of that organization unless the garment
makers row on strike against the firm Of
stein & Blaine, at Nos. and 20 West Seth
street. were speedily reinstated under the
terms of the union agreement made az q
result Of the strike in September About
half Of the seven thousand members Of
the union crowded the main floor and two
galleries of the hall and cheered the
speakers frsnticslly at times when strike
talk was the strongest
Resolutions we're adopted empowering
the executive board Of the local union, in
conjunction with the executive board Of
the Interna tional Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union, 10 call upon the representa-
tives Of the employers association to-day
and demand that they compel Stein &
Blaine who are members Of the associa-
ton which signed the agreement last fall,
TO live UP 10 that agreement or suffer ex-
pulsion from the association. Jacob
Klingenberg, chairman Of the executive
board of Local No. 80, presented the reso-
lutions. and they were received with great
enthusiasm and adopted unanimously.
There was a meeting OF the executive
boards OF the local and international or
ganizations following the mass meeting.
and committee was appointed TO call to-
day upon Edwin Goodman, of the firm Of
Bergdorf e. Goodman. ct No. 80 West 3?d
street. president OF the Merchants Society
OF Ladies' Taiors and Dressmakers Of New
York, the name under which the employ
ers' association Is known
The cloak makers contend that Stein x
Blaine could not now get out any consid-
cradle part of their work, unless they re-
ceive the assistance OF the other firms in
the association, which they declare are
helping them. general strike VIII be
called within the next few days unless the
other firms in the association cease TO 90
work for Stein & Blaine and compel the
latter firm to reinstate the men on strike.
The trouble began with the Stein Blaine
firm last week, when IT undertook to return
to the system of piecework instead Of reg
ular union wages. The men walked out
rather than work under the old system.
Abraham Rosenberg, president Of the in
ternational organization, presided at the
mass meeting lbSL HlShL aiu q" S>O'' -
speakers addressed the audience in Italian,
Yiddlsh. Hungarian and English.
Miss OReilly Of the Women's Trade
Union League, was among the speakers
and exhorted the garment workers to teach
the employers another lesson like that OF
the big strike last fall unless the union
AGREEMENT was strictly observed. Her ad-
nonition to remember that 1t was the
union hrst. last and forever was re
ceived with a storm OF applause. Men
jumped into the asles, swinging their
hands over their heads and cheering. while
the many girl members OF the union pres
art stood I'D and waved their handker-
chiefs.
The strikers won on many OF their de-
mands after the long strike last year. The
manufacturers were forced TO agree that
n,ocework in the shops be abolished and
minimum wage scale be adopted. II is no."
the contention of the manufacturers tha'
they cannot operate on profitable scale
under the present wage system,
The union leaders are encouraged ny
tbair former success and are anxious TO
call a strike as soon. as possible, II 1t is
found necessary, in order 10 tie up the
Iarga orders for Easter which are unoer
way at the present time. One OF the lead
ers said last night that the chances looked
good for many New Workers. having 10 90
without their Easter clothes.