New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-07
GARMENT TRADE
WILL ARBITRATE
Unions and Manufacturers
to Air Differences Be-
fore Board.

Differences between the Cloak. Suit
and Skirt Manufacturers Protective
Association and the Cloakmakers' and
Skirtmakers' unions will be laid before
q council Of Cancellation at the knlck-
erbocker Hotel tomorrow afternoon at
2 o'clock. A strike of $4,000 garment
workers was averted last Saturday,
when the manufacturers gave in after
& session of the executive board.
A letter from Charles Heineman,
chairman of the executive board, was
sent on July 2 stating the willingness
of the manufacturers to 20 before a
council of arbitration with the under
standing that arbitrable questions be
left to a board of arbitration to be
subsequently formed if necessary.
The action of the manufacturers is
regarded as a victory by the union Of
ficials, as it agrees not only to the ar
bitration of present differences, but
also to a board of arbitration to hear
possible disagreements in the future.
In reply to the unions demand for
m explanation OF the abrogation Of the
fve-year protocol by the manufact-
urers on the eve of the submission Of
important disputes to the board OF ar
bitration, the following statement was
issued yesterday from the headduar-
tiers of the Cloak. Suit and Skirt Man
ufacturers' Protective Associations:
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor. having
made a public statement relating to
the controversy between the unions
and the Manufacturers association, the
latter deems it necessary not only TO
Law before the public, in brief form,
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cation of the protocol. but TO answer
some glaring misstatements made by
Mr.. Gompers to his communication to
the newspapers.
an declaring the operation of the
protocol at an end the Manufacturers
association did so not of its own Volt
ton, but because it was forced to this
action by the plain statement Of the
union that it could not control its
own members.
"The association is willing and anx-
ious at all times to submit to any au-
thorized person or TO the newspapers
it's entire records covering the period
when the protocol was in force, and 1t
is content to rest its case on the judg-
ment Of any fairminded neutral.
"Mr. Gompers proceeds on the as
sumption that the Manufacturers as
ISOLATION abrogated the protocol, but
adds: This does not mean that the
workers in the cloak. suit and skirt
shops of New York City are defence
less and are at the mercy Of the caprice
Of the employers. During the last five
years these workers have come to an
realization Of their rights
TO fair wages and decent sanitary con-
ditions Of work. They have been cdu-
Gated to better things in the school Of
unionism and will never again submit
to the chaotic conditions that prevail
in unregulated shops
"a part of the protocol called for
the formation Of Joint board of sani-
tary control, and ever since its forma-
ton the conditions in the cloak, suit
and skirt shops have been a model for
the world To make this possible the
Manufacturers association contributed
So 900 a year to enable the board to
carry on its work"
BENJAMIN Schlesinger, president of
the international Ladies Garment
Workers Union, said last night that
the unions would accept the agreement
Of the Manufacturers association TO
meet tomorrow. A number of city
officials and social workers would be
resent, he added. and a committee Of
would be appointed. He
said the unions would stand by any de-
,ision made by such a committee.