Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-26
STRIKERS WIN IN
TWO MORE SHOPS
200 Garment Workers Return
to Their Benches
Today.
UNION PRAISES WORK OF
MINISTER'S COMMITTEE
Declare in Report That De-
mands Made Are Rea-
sonable.

sonable.
Two more shops which have been
closed down. since the inception of
the garment workers strike eight
weeks ago opened today, following an
agreement signed in New York yes
terday by the manufacturing firm of
Jacob Cohen The two local shops
affected by the agreement are Sill
verman's and Hoehbergs, both ssf
which are situated at 81 Broome
street. Abraham sStiglitz, leader of
4 the strikers in this city, declared
that negotiations for settlement were
pending with several other contract
brs, and that more agreements might
be arrived at this afternoon About
ZOO men returned to work today.
Favorable comment was made by
the strikers at their headquarters
regarding the report of the commit
lee of ministers who have been in
eestigatlng the strike. and which was
made public yesterday. The report
bf the ministers agrees in the most
part with the report made by former
Benator Colby, the findings in both
bases being somewhat similar.
Strikers Demands Fair,
Setting forth the demands made by
ne strikers the committee arrived at
the conclusion that they are fair,
basing their opinion on conditions
lxisting In New York, and on the
Aontents as we'll as the effect of the
E protocol first adopted by the cloak
Industry and then followed by the
white goods trade. The report also
bays particular stress upon the fact
hat since the committee was formed
4 he strikers have evineed willing
hess to arbitrate, whereas all efforts
ipon their part to bring the manufac-
lurers. and larger contractors to-
tether for this purpose have been
lutile.
The report as made by the COM
nittee is in full as follows:
The undersigned, your committee of in
n festigation, beg to report as follows
81 >Eifst-The demands of the strikers are
q Is follows: ~ A fifty-hour week, instead
n II a -nine-hour week. ~ An increase
N wages from 10 to 20 per cent: 90
a The minimum wage scale. ~ Abolition
Il zion of home work (6) Abolition of foot
4 power in factories, % The preferential
shop. 90 Sanitary conditionssin factories.
~ The guarantee on the part Of manu-
lecturers OF conditions and wages In their
contractors shops.
Three Hundred Shops Settle.
Second--In the main, these demands
seem to your committee, after much de-
Iteration. ~ be reasonable. This opin-
lon has been reached after various inter-
riews with the representatives of the
ltrikers. and with the manufacturers and
contractors of Newark. 1t is based also
npon the fact that the cloakmakers'
g strike of 1910, and the dress and shirt
Z waist industry strike of 1913, in which
timilar demands were made, were set
Tied in favor of the strikers, and upon
the further fact that upwards of 300
arms in New York City, affected by the
present strike, have settled with the
hnion representing the strikers by sub
have also been Influenced in our judg-
ment by the report of the committee of
Investigation appointed by the United
Dor to look into conditions connected with
The manufacture OF ready-made mems
? Clothing
Thlrd-since your committee was APP
pointed it is estimated that about one
fourth of the total number of those who
went out on strike in Newark have re-
turned to work. This is due, not to the
hbors of your committee, although we
have done all in our power to bring to-
sether the parties to this strike (acting
bpon the instructions given your commits
lee at a meeting held on February la,
but rather to the fact that the New York
manufacturers, for whom these strik-
FRS were working, have settled with the
lnion. The number still out in Newark
believed to be about 100.
Fourth-So far as we have been able
10 ascertain it, the attitude of the sew
sral parties interested in the strike at
The present time Is as follows,
The strikers. through their official rep
lesentatiyes, agree to enter into a con-
terence with the manufacturers and the
contractors, such as the conference that
recently took place In New YORK city
between representatives of the Garment
Workers, the United Manufacturers and
Merchants Association, aud the United
Clothing Contractors Association, for the
purpose of settling all matters in dis
pute, and with the understanding that all
matters not settled in the conference
shall be left to the decision of board
IF arbitration to be provided for by the
conference; provided, however that they
hall not be asked to relinquish their
Jain to the fftyhour week, which has
Ilready been agreed to by upwards of
100 firms that have settled with the union
rhe president of the United Garments
Workers of America stated that the union
without any limitation whatever. The
limitation was made by the executive
committee of the Newark Garment Work.
hrs
willing to Confer.
The Clothing Contractors Association
II Newark, OF which Dr. Charles A.
Rosenwasser is president, and which COM
prises some fourteen Of the thirty odd
contracting firms of Newark has ex-
pressed willingness to go into such a
conference. We have not been able to
Iecure an expression of opinion from
he other contracting firms, but it is our
understanding that they are not in favor
II such a conference. So far they have
attended none of the meetings held by
FOUR committee in the hope of finding a
) BASIS for the settlement of the strike
With regard to the four Newark man
ifacturing firms-McGregor & Co., Stout.
.nburgh & Co., Marshall & Ball and The
Hilton company--as yet none of them
ias agreed TO attend such a conference
rs that proposed by your committee to
.he several parties most interested in the
ltrike, although your committee, both