New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-14
3 CLOTHING FIRMS
WIN HANDS BACK
$4,000 Garment Workers
Take Part in Most FL
fective Strike
MANUFACTURERS RUSH
FOR SETTLEMENTS
1850 Employees Agree
ments Accepted-Union
Clash Seen

The strike 81 the Amalgsmated
Clothing Workers Ct America, which
went into effect at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning, registered a higher degree o.
efficiency than any recent strike in this
city. Union leaders said that more
than 90 per cent Of the 10000 Amalga-
mated workers $4,000 persons-in
the city had answered the call Iheir
assertion was conceded by The manu-
lecturers. who confessed that every
shop controlled by the Amalgamated
was tied Up.
The effectiveness Of the walkout was
rot only demonstrated by the numbers
but by the early rush OF manufacturers
for individual settlement with their
workers. Before the strike was six
hours old ffty-fve manufacturers en-
ploying 1880 workers, had signed
agreements granting the eigh;-hour
day and a wage increase.
Three Firms Grant Demands
Three Of the biggest mems clothing
firms granted the cieht-hour day and
increased wages before s o'clock Ihey
we're J. samuels, Inc, employing 2'5oo
workers; J. Eisncr & Co.. employing
1900. and Levy 3 Schlit, employing
500. The two last are members Ct the
American Clothing Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION. .,, .:;s
cont in view OF the feet that the as
eocia+io,. as a body, has declared u
would not deal with the Amslgamated'
The action by the manufacturers sug-
costs that the strike may be ultimately ,,
settled not by collective bargaining
hut bv individual acceptance OF the
unions Germs
The mart that the United Garment
Vorkers-from which organization the
powerful Amalgamated spTang Two
vcsrs aeo-will play in the present
strike remained the chief question O,
debate among manufacturers ana
urionists Yesterday. The United is
v.eak numerically-its membership
does not exceed 2.0OO-but 1t has be.
hind il the American Federation OF
labor and the United Hebrew Trades
Tho manufacturers association on
Tuesday offered tire United the eight
hour dav and n So increase IN pay
forms II now denies the Amalgamated'
Amalcamated executives declare thatt
the manufacturers offer to the United
is a bold effort to crush the ANA! ga-
mated. which is all-powerful, and 10
build up the United. They say the
roove is "bait" TO entice Amalgamated
members from their own organization
into the United, and that as soon as
the United's star begins to rise the
employers will be as anxious TO crush
that organization.
strike. Practically all the workers lett
their shops. filed TO halls leased for
them in advance and organized com
panies Of pickets.
Four hundred union men early yes
to-day surrounded the building az
broadway and Blocker Street, IN
which Heidelberg, Wolf & Go. employ
500 United workers, and, according to
Robert Timer, superintendent, assault
ed one Of the concerns foremen. Ihere
was disorder about the same building
AGAIN at noon, but special squad OF
police prevented disturbance as the
workers left the shop at night. MT;
Timer has arranged 20 house and feed
800 workers in the building until the
strike is over
Three strikers were arrested in the
morning. In jefferson Market court
they we're arraigned on charges Of dis
orderly conduct and placed under S9VU
bond to keep the peace.