Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
.ULT|MATUM SENT
TO THE STRIKERS
Garment Workers Refuse to
Meet Contractors-Laugh
at Threats.

Following the declaration of the
strike leaders that they would not
meet in joint conference with a com
mittee from the recently organized
Clothing Contractors Association, the
members of that body have drawn
up articles of agreement which they
have delivered to the garment work.
ers as an ultimatum. The new draft,
which was turned over to the Rev.
Bismarck ]. Coltorti, was submitted
to the strike leaders today.
Abraham Stiglitz, one of the strike
leaders, in commenting on the arti-
Giles drawn up by the contractors,
said that he was not giving the mat
ter any serious consideration, as the
men who drew up the articles were
not in a position to treat with the
strikers. Besides delivering their I'LL
timatum, in which they refuse to rec
ognize the union. the principal reason
for which the garment workers are
striking, the contractors have threat
ened to move their shops from the
city, if their desires are not acceded
to.
Stiglitz laughed when asked by a
reporter for the Evening Star what
the strikers would do in such case.
do they think they would gain
anything by doing that?' Stiglitz re-
piled. why, we would follow them
to the Pacific coas,, II need be, and
our organization would make trouble
for them wherever they went. Their
action in delivering what they call
an ultimatum to us is laughable.
They are all controlled, body and
soul, by the big New York manufac-
turers. and are not in position to
deal with us. If they can guarantee
us that their superiors will stand bV
an agreement they make with us and
the terms are satisfactory, then and
only then will be settle"
The provisions of the new tentative
agreement are as follows:
First-It is agreed that tifty-two
hours shall continue a weeks
work.
Second-Each contractor is to
arrange the financial settlement
with his own employees.
Thlrd-Each contractor agrees
to exert every possible effort to
abolish home work.
Fourth-Each contractor will
try to abolish sub-contracting.
Fifth-The association binds it.
self not to discriminate against
union labor
A report circulated at the strikers
Headquarters this morning that sew
fril hal f.
ing and agreed to return to work for
a nonunion concern on Hunterdon
street caused considerable excite
mens. Stiglitz and the other leaders
soon investigated the matter but
found there was no truth 10 it, In
spite of the fact that many of them
are feeling the pinch of necessity the
men are firm in their resolve to re-
main out until their demands are
met
Though money is still scarce among
the strikers unexpected aid came to
them at a massmeeting held in
Krebs's cafe in Broome street,
when a committee of the local
branch of the Womens Political
Suffrage Union, headed by Mrs.
Everett Colby and Mrs. Victor Par
sonett. appeared and told the audi
ence that they would help the Bakers
Union. Local No. 167, in their efforts
to supply the strikers with bread,
and that they would furnish the nee
essary flour.
According to Abraham Stiglitz, the
local leader, who had been in New
York Yesterday, one of the manufac-
turers, Ash & Wood, employing 600
workmen, has settled and that others
are likely to follow.