New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-14
FIGHT TO FINISH, CRY
OF GARMENT WORKERS
Fiery Orators Preach That
Doctrine at Mass Meeting,
Following Big Parade.
EMPLOYERS ALSO FIRM
Three Hundred of Them Attend
Conference and Arrange
for Committee to En-
gineer Battle.

gineer Battle.
While the striking Farment workers
we're ending their hie parade Of fifty thou
sand marchers yesterday with 2 mass
meeting in Union Square, al which their
est orators preached the doctrine OF
never give up, four large associations of
their employers were deciding at a meet
ing at the Hotel Brevoort to adopt the
same policy.
The meeting was attended by three
hundred employers representing the New
York Clothing Trade Association the
Tailors to the Trade Association the As
ISOLATED BOYS Clothing Manufacturers OF
Greater New York and the American
Clothing Manufacturers Association.
Charles w Endel was elected president
ot the permanent organization and di-
Tected to appoint Joint committee. COM
posed OF three members from each Of the
four constituent bodies, 10 engineer the
lighting Of the strike TO the finish.
The meeting represents 20 per cent o.
the clothing industry" said Mr.. Endel,
and was the most representative ever
held in this city or in the United States
II was unanimously adopted as the basic
principle OF the organization that we shall
stand for the open shop. We employ
nine-tenths of the workers In the trade
and represent an output OF $500 o1o 600
annually.
To Conserve Employees Interest.
The sentiment at the meeting was 10
L.. 90
the fullest extent, 10 maintain proper
sanitary conditions for them. grant them
reasonable hours and a fair remuneration.
We voice Indignant denial TO public state
n.ents that they are not working under
these conditions now"
When asked how It was that his organi-
zstion was claiming TO represent 90 per
cent OF the industry, while the United
Manufacturers and Merchants were
claiming the same proportion, Mr. Endel
ssid he had not been able 20 find FIVE real
manufacturers belonging to the rival or
Ganization who had expressed themselves
AS willing 10 recognize the union and
czpitulate 10 its demands.
The parade by which the strikers
sought to impress their strength on the
minds of their employers started in the
morning at 10 o'clock at Rutgers Square
aud followed devious course up through
the manufacturing district, past the main
shops until il reached Union Square
There were fully fifteen hundred women
aad SirIs in the ranks of the singing,
shouting workers. At the head Of the
third division marched nineteen girls. only
yesterday released from Raymond street
Jail. where they had served a three-day
sentence for too vigorous picket duty.
They had gone TO jail rather than let the
union pay their fines. and were cheered
NanUcally wherever they appeared
The banners and transparencies the
marchers carried breathed defiance TO
their employers. one, carried by six
Young women, read: We battle to-
ccther" Others We're in the form Of
protests against child labor. unsanitary
factories. poor wages and long hours OF
work.
One marcher carried loaf OF bread On
q pole with the legend: I'VE want 20 eat,
hut We don't get it," Other legends We're:
We are fighting for better life" and
our bosses say We are satisfied, but we
are here to prove the contrary
One Of the speakers al Union Square
Was Rose Pastor Stokes, who for several
days has been speaking at the East Side
strike headquarters Of the uprising and
arouslng wild enthusiasm. Again yester-
day her fiery words calling for the put
ting OF the bosses out OF the industrial
system and the taking over of the entire
thing into the hands OF the working class,
was greeted with cheers from socialists,
anarchists and plain workers alike.
Asked to Take Oath.
Another speaker was Jacob Pankin.
the socialist lawyer-orator, who called
upon his hearers TO raise their right
bAads and subscribe to the following
oath he proposed in Yiddish:
Il swear under Gods blue sky never.
never, 10 quite this strike until the union
is recognized
He translated the oath afterwsrd, and
declared he also said: Lot their arms
lust raised become paTalyAed, their legs
shrivelied, their tongues never speak
again II they went back to tho factories
without the recognition OF the union"
Mr. Pankin was succeeded by a dozen
other orators In various languages who
drove further home the doctrine Of dis
content and unionism.
Mary z. Donneily, the suffragette, and
her militant sister In the cause. Lavinis
Dock, we're on the ground. also preach
ing their particular type OF dissatisfso-
ton with existing conditions.
But. not having a permit to speak they
got into many a difficulty with the police
half dozen times Miss Donnelly, who
carried a votes for women banner. took
up her stand in a strategic spot. and.
pointing 10 Miss Dock. said:
Here is one one OF the Albany pill
grims"--
But she seldom got any further than
that before some obstreperous cop"
would make her move on.
IL was announced yesterday at the head
quarters of the International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union that the vote OF the
shirtwaist makers on the question OF
TO strike or not 10 strike. although not
yet completed. stood u.SS9 for and 542
against 1t was said that the executive
committee would take fnsl action on this
to-day. IL is expected the strike will be
called for tomorrow.
Rose Schneiderman and Gertrude Bar