Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-23
$4,000 WORKERS
WILL STRIKE ON
WEDNESDAY NEXT.
Members of Unions Affiliated
With Carmen Ratify Call
To Walkout
MAYOR MITCHELL AND
OFFICIALS CRITICIZED
Labor Leaders Assert 100000
Will Be Involved in General
Strike in N. Y.

New York, Sept. 22.-Delegates to
the Central Federated Union, repre-
senting 125,000 workers in allied
trades, voted unanimously to ratify
the strike called for next Wednesday
by union labor leaders. This action
followed a similar step taken several
days ago by the representatives Of
200, 900 members of the United Hebrew
trades. asaa";aE,
The vote was taken after the dele
gates had heard a report from the
conference of labor leaders, which
authorized the call and speeches in
favor of general suspension of work.
Among the trades represented at
the meeting were bakers, milk wagon
drivers, and several branches of the
garment industry. 1t was annOunc-
ed that the cutters in the ladies tail
oring trade have authorized their Of
ficers to call them out. This will
mean it is said that $4,000 dressmak-
ers and ladies tailors will be unable
to work because of the lack of cut
ters. Many women from the garment
industry were present and took part
in the speeches and in the vote.
critieizes Mayor And Others.
Ernest Bohm, secretary Of the Gen.
trail Federated Union, one of the
speakers, criticised the action of the
police, the attitude of Mayor Mitch.
ell and the Public Service Commis-
sion. 5%.
eve must take up the cudgels with
these men, Bohm said. "We are
fighting fight that is not merely
local, or state, but one which is a
national fight for trade uni9nism aild'
the right to organize"
Organized workers in virtually ev-
cry industry in Greater New York
were formally called on today to cease
work at 8,o'clock next Wednesday
morning in sympathy with striking
transaction employees. Labor leaders
assert 600,000s men and women are
involved. ~ --~. 80,
The call was, embodied in resolu
tions adopted at a conference Of Ia
Dor leaders, representing the FEEDER
ated bodies in all the bureaus of the
city as we'll as many national and
international unions. OF the eighty
unions in the city, represented, it was
said some already had voted in favor
OF strike. The call, it was said,
would be issued not only to organ
lied workers in New York but also
to those in Westchester county, in
which the cities of Yonkers, New
Rochelle and Mt. Vernon are situat-
ed, and would extend throughout a
wide range of industries.
Announcement Of Walkout.
Hugh Frayne. New York State Or
ganizer of the American Federation
of Labor, announced the determina-
tion to call the sympathetic walkout
in the following announcement:
ut was decided by unanimous vote
of the eighty unions of Greater New
York and vicinity that there shall be
a general suspension of all trades and
Industries in Greater New York and
vicinity, the same to commence We'd
nesday, September q, at a. m"
officers of several international un-
ions attended the conference, Mr..
Frayne said. Among those was T.
v. O'Connor, of Buffalo, President OF
the International Longshoremen's or.
ganization.
William B. Fitzgerald, general or
ganizer of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street Electric Railway en-
ployees, in charge of the traction
strike, represented the carmen at the
conference.