New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-15
Dress and Waist Makers Vote
by Big Majority to
Quit Shops.
WORKERS DANCE AND SING
Number of Those Out in Gar
ment Industry Will Be In
creased to 100000 by
Recruits This Morning.

meut makers UNIONS hoN 'u1 VII 'N'
This morning Not until last night was
this decision arrived at. Miss Gertrude
Earnum. general organizer of the union,
aid tho workers would leave their shops
4t u o'clock this morning, and 20 at once
to tho halls i'm the ncighborhoods TO or
ranizc. Eighteen or nineteen well known
nails ON the East Side have been rented
for headquarters.
This will lie the fourth great strike in
tnc Garment workers unions, for the white
GOOD workers. the garment makers proper
and the kimono and wrapper makers are
all now out. The calling of the strike fol-
lows "a vote taken last week. only o42
votes out Of Z, &Sl were registered against
the strike. and last night the leaders were
sauguine of it's success.
The manufacturers. however, are as de-
tcrmined as the strikers, and say their
organization for the coming fight Is IN
sJcb shape that they will be able TO hold
ont for an open shop for an indefinite
period. ..--.
The Dress and Waist Manufacturers
Association which controls the Srealei
part OF the trade had expected the strihe'
4 meeting of its executive committee was
hold in the afternoon followed by a meet
ing of the association. The manufact
,,re,s assert they have received no de-
mands. They will take no action u"'''
the strike goes into effect
Girls Sinq and Dance.
The striking garment workers in the
,,o,nan's branches of the trade spent the
da,. YESTERDAY. when they were not on
,ic,sa duty. dancing and singing in the
ia1r do7er halls where they have estao-
i,sbod their strike headquarters. 80 I'M
portant "a factor did this phase OF '''','
'.oi,,nt.,.y idleness become that their lead
ors decided to make systernauC INNS
- - an5 an entertainment committee
was appointed. r,
.I-rder the leadership Of Mrs. John FL
Nott of the Womens Trade UNION
League. the committee was busy encour-
aging the lighter side Of the movement
organizing the singing and proVoihg
other means of entertainment. a pam
pblet of songs was prepared and song
leaders amounted. The favorite song was
a SnciaIistic version OF My Country, It's
Of Thee" the first stanza Of which ran;
Nv country, thou shalt he
sweet land OF liberty
when Justice regns,
When darkness turns 10 light
When wrongs are changed 10 iish|
When truth asserts her might
And breaks our chains
\ special entertainment was provided
bv Mrs. J.. G. Hartshorn and her sister
ip-law. Miss Johanna Hartshorn' OF
Stoney Hill. \. J. Cake and ice cream
were served at No III East Broadway.
Many Employers Surrender.
The work Of settlement with firms that
announced themselves as willing to sub
scribe 10 the terms demanded by the
union was taken up at the strike head
quarters by a special committee. 1t was
announced that employers were falling
ovcr one another I'm their willingness TO
capitulate. The terms as formulated and
issued in the form Of agreement blanks
provided for a maximum of fifty hours
work a week. nine hours making a day,
with oue-half day off each week. Over
+ir,o &c TO be paid double and no re-
durtion made from wages for power fur
uished.
# was also insisted that each manu-
racturor agree to employ no one but union
,perstives, and that all troubles be set
tied between the employer and the union
ony,ials. II provided for proper sanitary
conditions. and prohibits child labor.
1t was also announced that Fire Com
,,issii,uer- Johnson had taken up the com
playnts OF the union that employers were
locking the doors on their employees TO
keen them from going out, in violation OF
the FIRE laws.
A new speaker, who aroused great en-
tbusissr1 among the workers in q tour Of
their gathering places was Mrs. Maurice
Icidcr. Socialist and suffragette labor
lender from London.
II WAS hard TO find evidences OF a
labor war in the mems branch Of the
trade. At strike headquarters in the Bible
House II was said that numerous individ-
uar settlements had been made with small
employers but that no progress had been
made toward a general peace with the
great trade assoCi atoms. A meeting w1o
hehj Of the four largest Of these bodies
At the Hotel BrevOort, but II was an
uounced afterward that nothing of i'm
ucrtancc was done.
In the morning several prominent cler-
cvnen addressed the strikers in Bee
in0Ntn lidlls III olu ctlttNs ilitN lolu Nht
strikers that the public was with them in
the struggle.
The Rev. ]. Howard Melish presided
liz congratulated the workers on their
attitude and the progress they had made
in improving their condition, advising
them 10 stay i'm the fight. He read a
letter from Mayor Gaynor, stating that
he wished charges to he made against
any policeman treating pickets brutally,
and promising that every case would be
investigated. other speakers were the
Rev. George William Douglas. rector OF
the Cathedral of ST. John the Divine and
chairman OF the Industrial Arbitration
Commission; the Rev. W. J. Schiffeln,
the Rev. Percy :. Grant, the Rev. II. f.
Cobb the Rev Frank Oliver Hall and the
ReY. George w. Wenner.
There was only one disturbance. at 9Th
street and Broadway, when Louis n.
lrenberg started TO make a speech. He
attracted crowd that was dispersed by
the police When Irenberg was arrested
hts hearers started a demonstration, but
the police took him away and locked him
up on a charge of disorderly conduct
10 was announced by a representative
OF Morris Asinof & Son. of Sd. 4th and
Wooster streets. that letter had been
received from Mrs. o. II. +. Belmont ac-
cepting an invitation 10 inspect the fac
tory Of the concern. This invitation was
extended. II was said. to show Mrs. Bel
mont that the conditions alleged by the
strikers are not so.