New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-14
NATIONAL STRIKE
PLANNED TO cow
CLOTHING HEADS
Word Sent Allied Trades
to Prepare to Back
New York Workers.
CHILDREN'S GARMENT
MAKERS OUT TO-DAY
5000 More Join StrikerS-Con-
ferences Yesterday Promised
No Settlement.

Barricaded behind closed doors, rep
resentatives of manufacturers and
workers involved in the garment trade
strike fred a few salvos Of typewriter
statements at each other yesterday.
THE pants making branch Of the
clothing Industry is thoroughly par
alvzed IN the City OF New York, thun-
dered a 5O0-word gun fired by sidney
Hillman, pres dent of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America, from ms
Headquarters. 81 Union Square. TINS
shot was sent at 4:30 O'Clock p, m 10
752 Broadway, where the advisory
hoard of the American Clothing Manu-
facturers' Association was IN confer
After lull of ninety minutes the an,
swering S0O-word shell whlstled
through the air with this detonatlon;
THE members of the American Cloth
ing Manufacturers Association have
thCs far not been affected, as the ma
jority Of the shops are In full opera
ton" H..
Responsibility for the present situa-
ton and threatening conditions IN inc
industry rests with the manufacturers,
repjed Mr.. Hillman in the next round.
agreement with the manufacturers, and
the responsibility Of threatened
strike is therefore up to them, an
swered Mayer Shoenfeld. labor adJuster
for the manufacturers. .,.,
Scarcely had the verbal smoke drifted
away when Charles l.. Bernhelmer,
chairman of the arbitration committee
of the Chamber of Commerce, and the
Rev. DR.. J. Leon Magnes, president OF
the Jewish Community, entered the
headquarters of the Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION They were ushered lmmeaI
ately into the executive chamber. Hail
an hour later they left, reShslng to
make any statement about their mis-
sion.
10000 Pants Makers Out.
President Hillman estimated last St
night that between 5000 and lO,OUO
pants makers had obeyed the W"aiH9uC
order, which went into ERECT MonGay
at 10 O'Clock a. m. The strike SITUATION
is now 100 per cent in this branch OF
the trade" he said. "The joint board
of the Childrens Clothing Trade has
irdorsed n walkout of the knee pants
makers for Wednesday morning. with
< 600 men and women quitting, we eX-
meet that this branch of the chlldrens
trade will be paralyzed.' Although re-
fusing to confirm the report, MI mn
man intimated that the vest makers
would be the next group to JOIN the
strike unless mediation is accepted py
both factions. =.
Flaming red ink posters were dis
tributed yesterday afternoon by the
Joint board Of the Clothing cutters
Union calling on trlmmers, llnlhg cut
ters. examiners and bushelmen TO at
,o1 v,,aafipp a u n. TlGnL
after work, tomorrow at Beethoven
Hall. 21O Fifth Street. Steps neces-
sary to improve conditions IN the trade
will be discussed, the posters SAID
Threaten General Strike.
II was reported at the headquarters
of President Hillman yesterday AFTER
noon that he had sent kilograms TO the
principal mems clothing centres IN the
rountrv calling on the union leaders to
hold themselves ready for immediate
action. A general strike of 2oOOOo
members of all the unions in the trade
would be one of the most serious labor
disturbances the United States has eX-
nerienced. il was said. BENJAMIN
Weinberg. president of the local pants
MAKERS union in Newark, comprising
5000 workers, had a conference with
MIR. Hillman yesterday. PERSONS IN
close touch with the strike thlhh' no"
ever. the introduction Of the peace ad-
vocates late in the afternoon over
Swallowed other developments LOOKING
toward an extension of the strike zone.
The present condition in the clothing
industry and the reduced earnings OF
emnloyes are due to shorttime schedules
accustomed by unfavorable business
markets during the European war; the
manufacturers said. Furthermore the
manufacturers were unable to control
prices paid by contractors. In me
face of defeat in a small strike called
AGAINST one firm for discharging two
Smployes for gross INSTRUMENTATION the
union officers have tried to call a gen
eral strike, the manufacturers state
" Mass meetings will be held to-day. in
various East Side halls and IN the
brownsville section Of Brooklyn to as