New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-28
STRIKES END HANGS
NOW ON REFERENDUM
If Garment Workers Accept
Terms 10000 Will Go
Back to Work.
MEANS IS PER CENT RAISE
Joint Executive Board Of Union
Locals at Night Meeting
Votes Against Proposed
Peace Terms.

The executive committee Of the Unlted
Garment Workers Of America decided
| yesterday 10 put TO a referendum or the
strikers in the mems garment trade the
question as to whether they would 20
/ back TO work under the tentative agree
mcnt arrived at between their represeh-
| tatives and delegates from the manu-
I facturers and contractors at the Hotei
| Imperial early on Sunday morning as
outlined in The Tribune yesterday.
Although the national officers OF the
union had approved the basis for peace
the joint executive board for Greater Ne"
York Of tho union locals voted down the
proposition last night at meeting AT
No. 216 Broadway.
I'VE wanted to go on record as OPP
posed TO the proposition" said Joseph
Schweitzcr, "A member of the board. III
does not grant enough. either in hours or
In wages. We stand pat on our first de-
mand for forty eight hours and mimi
mum of SID q week. However. this ac-
ton of ours will not prevent the propo-
sition from going To referendum vote
tomorrow before the whole body or
strikers"
! II the workers vote 10 accept the agree
| ment IL will mean that ll0.vD strikers VIII
! go back TO work under a IL per cent in
crease in wages for the poorer paid work.
crs. ~ per cent for the medium paid and
/ > per cent for the best paid. with fifty
/ two-hour working week The peace pro-
! posal further provides for the appoint
/ ncnt OF an investigation board 10 go into
/ the details Of the settlement not covered
( 10y the agreement. as well as Joint
grievance board 10 take up points of dif-
| ference arising in individual shops be-
! tween employers and employees ana a
| general arbitration board To settle larger
| questions of policy.
II was said that the executive board
members personally were heartily in
! favor of the agreement realizing the ne
| cessity of ending the strik" owing to the
] suffering prevalent among their people,
: but We're afraid 10 assume the fun re-
| sponsibiity of calling off the strike.
The plan will be- presented to the strik-
crs to-day in printed form. The machin-
| cry for taking the vote Will be put into
| operation at once. and il was confidently
I predicted that before the wecl; was over
| the strike would be definitely settled.
| II was announced yesterday that under
/ the peace agreement reached ten days
/ ago between the waist makers and their
/ employers practically all Of the thirty-iive
thousand workers involved in that strike
! had either actually gone back 10 work or
were about 10 go back as fast as the
! details of the agreement as II affected
! them could be completed.
| OF the one hundred and scyenty-iivc
! thousand workers in all branches OF the
garment trad" who were called out dur
/ ing tho last -four weeks by successive
/ strike orders. this left yesterday only
! the wrapper and kmono ana white goods
| workers about thirty thousand in all
| for whom there was no pcac" IN sight
IL was said YESTERDAY that Colonel
/ Roosevelt who has interested himself
/ particularly IN this branch OF the trouble.
was In conference with various persons
! who had views or Information on the
| matter. and IL was hoped that some solu-
! ton could bc reached. It was said the
! colonel was preparing an additional state
ment on the situation
/ All parties IN IN" Strlks se'Ul"u Hi'lIhed
| Yesterday To consider the recalcitrant
! New York Clothing Trades Association.
! headed by Eugene Benjamin. who has
| time and time again declared that he and
! his associates would have noting TO do
| with the unions. a negligible quantity.
! IL was thought that if peace were con-
! Guided with the Manufacturers and Met
! chants Association. representing the
! bulk of the trade the Benjamin crowd,
| as they are called. would be forced into
acquicsconcc. II was also said that vlo-
| lent discussions had broken out IN the
ranks OF the recalcitrants.