New-York tribune., 1916-07-14
Leave Own Work to ASK
Money from Throng
for ClOakmakerS.
BRAVE THE HEAT
TO SELL FLOWERS
Samuel Gompers to Preside at
To.day's Conference Between .
Workers and Employers.

please help the strikers, mister
This was the plea of 400 Jewish girls
in the streets of New York yesterday
They had quit work to aid those VINO
for eleven weeks have had no work
TO do. With little bunches of faded
flowers in one hand and coin box
in the other, each girl begged from n
wilted, impatient humanity to keep
starvation from the doors OF the
strikers a few days more.
While the crowds hugged the shade,
the girls paced the hot sidewalks
There was no escape from the heat
! for them. The sun laid low few OF
them, but the others kept on pleading
and cajoling. When the stock Of
flowers supplied by the citizens com
r,ittee to aid the cloakmakers gave
out they sold little bits of paste
board.
Lena Gerber was one of those VINO
sacrificed her days wages as a SHIRT
, waist maker. She appealed to q none
, too generous crowd at Lenox Avenue
and 116th Street.
Look" she remarked. pointing 70
the perspiring stream of persons or
the opposite side of the street. They
are we'll dressed and fed, those men
and women. Yet see how hot they
are. how thew mop their brows and
/ try to get out of the sun.
Spend Vacations in the Parks.
"Rut on the East Side they are too
tired to think of that. They become
tired thinking when the strike will
/ end Those people across the street
have something to eat and roof over
their heads and many of them Will
90 away on their vacations. But 90
/ YOU know where the strikers take their
vacations? In the parks
Lena Gerber abruptly rushed over 70
woman fumbling in her bag. one
cingerly shook the collection, but the
, few coins only clinked a melancholy
request The newly found philanthro-
pist dropped in a penny, hesitated ana
dropped in another.
"bankei Dankei" cried Lena Gerber
and brushed away the beads OF per
spiration from her brow with frayed
sleeve. Everything helped, she SAID
she planned to spend her two weeks
vacation in collecting money for the
strikers. for when she was striking
the cloakmakers had helped her.
Across the street Lena's chum was
sppealing to a forid man IN a white
suit. He shook his head and walked
on A block further two more girls
were combining their eloquence TO
wrest penny from Young woman.
They succeeded.
Collections Given the Committee.
At the end Of days work the little
army of girls surrendered their col
lections to representative OF the
striking cloakmakers' collection COM
rittee. at IT'S East Broadway.
While the girls were appealing Tor
relief the Joint committee OF strikers
and manufacturers was in session in
the Woolworth Building. The day be-
can in debate and ended in debate
But through the pessimism OF both
factions appeared a single ray OF nope.
II was announced that Samuel Gom-
ners. president of the American FED
Grafton of Labor, would preside at the
meeting to be held to-day.
II was Mr.. Gompers's proposed
nresence at this conference that
4 brought about heated dispute at the
meeting on Wednesday. The dead
! lock was broken only when f. j. VILE,
for the manufacturers. and BENJAMIN
4 Schlessinger, for the union, agreed to
put the question to their respective
3 committees. Mr.. Gompers's selection
was received with enthusiasm by both