Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-11-20
TRIANGLE FIRE
ECHO HEARD AT
TRADES COUNCIL
Woman Delegate Halls caustic
Criticism Against Men Who
Operate Shop Here.
SAY GIRL EMPLOYEES
FACE HARD CONDITIONS
Striking Teamsters Deny That
Their Men Had Attacked
Strike-Breakers.

Denouneing the owners Of the
Trouville Waist Company, Il Austin
street, for the long hours which it is
alleged to require its girls to work,
Miss Mabel A. Craig. organizer OF
Local No. 113. of the Waist and White
Goods Workers Union, pleaded with
the delegates Of the Essex Trades
Council last night to assist in organ
izing the girls into a union.
These men," declared Miss Craig,
referring to the waist company peo-
pie, are the same ones that owned
the Triangle Waist Company IN New
York city, where fire broke out a
few years ago. and because OF the
fact that the doors opened in, instead
Of out, the girls were trapped and a
tremendous loss of life resulted. l
was down to the Trouville factory and
found that the girls had been work
ing from o'clock in the morning
until 6 O'clock at night. being allowed
by the kind-hearted management
twenty minutes for lunch.
I was down there for two days
and Max Blank, one OF the owners
of the vast chain of waist factories
to 'stears me in the wrong direction.
allowed the girls the usual dinner
hour. He also informed me that l
was a blood sucker replied that
maybe ! was a 'blood-sucker,' but I
was not responsible for the loss of
146 lives like he was. informed him
that in this respect my conscience
was clear.
Would Fool Newark People."s
These people have come to Newark
to fool the people here by running
their business under assumed names.
They also have loft in the Stouten-
berg building, where they hire poor,
ignorant Italian girls and they make
sure that the girls are all under six
teen, as they figure On the young
blood. which fails to perceive the
conditions under which they are
working. They don't want the Jewish
girls. because the Jewish girls would
soon rebel.
In New York, where this firm
owns IA the neighborhood of twenty
factories. Miss Craig continued
the pay Is reasonable. but they come
over here and hire the young women.
whom circumstances have forced 10
earn living, and pay them the mag
nificent sum OF $3.50 and So a week.
If you men have daughters working
plead with them to organize. I don't
know what is the trouble with some
of the girls working under the con-
ditions / speak of. They seem to be
afraid to go home and inform their
parents that they are sick at heart
and empty in stomach because men
like the proprietors of the Trouville
company give them a short time for
dinner, making Il SO that when they
go back to their machines their
stomach has to do the work I have
been working night and day in effort
to organize these girls, but there
seems to be a hitch somewhere, and
1 ask you men to assist me-
Mr.. Small. in requesting that the
delegates representing the inside iron
workers be present at the next meet
ing to discuss the situation of unseat-
ing member of the union, was taken
as having reference to the case of Sig
mund Moss. a delegate who is charged
with having extorted money from the
fnefnuefS enBdSeu III lHe erecting OF
the new synagogue in Prince street.
H. is almost certain that Moss, who
Is alleged TO have obtained as high as
$500 from the members by misrepre-
sentation, will be unseated. Court In
terpreter Isaac Binder. president OF
the synagogue, was invited to attend
last nights meeting, but failed to ap-
pear. Moss. it is said, obtained the
money by threatening to call off the
workmen unless it was paid.
Teamster Makes Protest.
Thomas O'MalIey, a delegate from
the Teamsters Union, reported that
he had been informed that the strike
breakers employed by the express
companies in this city were being
housed and fed, at Wiedenmayers S
dock II this is so and there are
any union bartenders and walters
employed at the dock they ought 10
be ashamed of themselves" said Mr..
O'AIaliey. .tAll we ask in this strike
is a reasonable working day for the
drivers. We don't care so much
about the increase in wages, as we
do in getting ten-heur day and pay
for overtime. A teamster generally
gets SIT week, and a good man Is
worth every bit of it and more. too,
because he is not only the driver for
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