The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-18
Garment Workers Win Concessions Manufacturers Meet Demand of 20,
 GOO Strikers
This Humber to Return to
 Work Monday Next

New York, Jan. 18.-One division of the great garment workers strike was settled anicably, today, when the manufacturers and employees commit tees of the waist and dressnaking trade came to an agreement under which 25,OOO workers will return to the shops, Monday. The strikers were granted their demands for general in crease in wages on a sliding scale, bet ter hours and fire protection. The manufacturers in the association, that agreed to these terms, control about 75 per cent of the waist and dress making shops affected by the strike.
 The remaining shops are operated by independent manufacturers Their employees will remain strike until they agree to the same terms accepted by the association.
 As an aftermath of the settlement of the waist and dreSsnaakers' strike, it was learned, today, that an agree Inent between the manufacturers in the association and union leaders had been reached three weeks ago to test the strength of the union by calling out tn workers The nanufa cturerS, Edward Bartholnne said, told the un- ion they would gladly grant the in creases in wages and other demands # the union could demonstrate that it controlled the majority of the work CTS.
 At that time the union only had 2,000 actual members in the waist and dressnaking trade. In two weeks the membership had reached 13,000. Re cognizing the unions power to control the workers, Earth olIne said, every girl was advised to join the union. Then the strike was called It was only for the purpose of putting out the workers in the independent shops, the majority of which are alleged sweatShOpS.
 e'In the shops outside of our ds- sociation,'' said BarthoIne "the con 6jtinnc the worst thnuephf if was for the best interests of the trade that the union should give a demon stration of it's strength. Now that it has shown that it is legitimate labor organization, with a true purpose of aiding it's members and not an organ ization run by leaders for their own ton are glad to abide by all reason able propositions advanced in behalf of our employees"
 Outbreaks of violence in which strikers and their sym pathizers clash cd with the police and half a dozen girl strike pickets were arrested, were gress of the garment workers strug- gle.
 In one disturbance in front of the factory of Alfred Benjamin on LaFay- cite street, several hundred strikers engaged in a near battle with the po- lice reserves during which heads were clubbed right and left and a number of persons badly cut and bruised. The trouble started when Giorgiana Lom- bardi, a picket, was arrested for in terfering with strikebreakers A res cue party of fellow strikers and sym patnizers tried to take the girl from the policeman. The reserves came up on the run, formed hollow square and fought their way through the crowd to the station The girl prison CTS was painfully bruised and cut in the struggle and three other women and two men arrested.
 A group of girl pickets surrounded a delivery wagon loaded with mat tresses for the strikebreakers in Jacob Greenberg's shop to sleep on. threw the mattresses to the street and at tackled the driver. Three girls and one man were arrested.