Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-20
CIGAR STRIKE
SPREADING TO
OTHER SHOPS
Hundreds Of Young Women Join
Effort to Organize Non
Union Factories.
AMERICAN CIGAR co.
EMPLOYEES HAVE QUIT
Owners Talk of Closing Fac
tories as Answer to Demand
for Higher Wages.

The l75 young women and children
atrikers from the non-union cigar
factory of Seidenberg e Co, in Gem
tral avenue, were Joined by hundreds
Of others today. and an attempt is
being made by Henry +. Hilfers, sec
retary of the Essex Trades Council,
to organize the roller and buncher
Girls of the big non-union factories in
The city. The superintendents of
these factories say they will shut
down and leave the girls to think it
over. No raise in wages will be con-
aldered, the superintendents declare,
and they laugh at the notion that
their shops may be unionized. The
strikers have been getting thirty-t1Ve
cents per 100 and ask forty. The
union scale is fifty-two and one-half
cents per 100.
Secretary I1ilfers says that never
before has Newark seen such large
number of children strikers, and that
The situation will prove distressing
one to think of as soon as IT IS tuliS
disclosed He admits that organized
labor does not yet know just how to
proceed with the girls between tour
teen and sixteen years of age. inc
CigarmaSers Union will not admit TO
membership boys or girls under the
age of sixteen, but he says some
way will be found to handle the pres
ent situation.
"why Not?"
Superintendent Max Unger of the
seidenberg factory, said today tnat
while most of the employees are above
eighteen years of age, many are 40
Young as fourteen. "Why not? he
asked in apparent surprise. Does not
tho law permit it? Are we breaking
any law?"
He also said that no truth exists III
the charge of the strikers that an
agreement exists between the pro-
prietors and superlntendents OF the
non-union cigar factories in Newark
about the employment of glrls dis
charged from other places
The first accession TO the ranks OF
The Seidenberg strikers came from
the Union American Cigar Company
factory at Union and Market streets.
where more than 100 women and girls
quit work yesterday afternoon
Max Goldhnger, superintendent OF
tie factory. said today that ABOUT
Quit Yesterday. Dit tilthH
m came back today, although ne
advised them to stay away Tor
lie because work was rather dull.
said that he probably would smut
un the shop and did not care mucn
what the strikers did.
The girls have made their heao-
Quarters so far in a vacant store at
Ferry and Market streets More IMAM
mn of them were there this forenoon
in af Pol
look of T6 Nichol street, and Mary
GRAY. of sos Oliver street. The morn
ing was spent in instructing the
eirls about the parade this afternoon
from the headquarters to the Essex
Trades Council headquarters at oo
south Orange avenue, where the or
aaniaation meeting is to be held.
Here It was said that 200 girls
struck yesterday, and that either
ten or eleven went back TINS lore
noon. Minnie Kornbloom, in charge
. fine pickets about the plant. said
she was certain that not more than
eleven went in today.
Made Almost 81.
Among the strikers at the Union
American factory today was one VINO
said she was fourteen, although she
did not look so old, and she very
proudly said that last week she made
almost 81" Another, who said she
was fifteen, said she only made. $l.l6
last week, but explained 1t by saying
she worked only two days. A third.
who said she was sixteen and hVeo
on the Hill. earned 1912 last week.
Minnie Kornbloom, the leader of the
oickets. said that when she went to
euperintendent Goldfinger yesterday
10 ask whether the company would
trant an increase of wages ne toid
her that no increase could be thought
Of. nut that perhaps she mad better
stay home for awhile ana tnat an
who thought they should get more
wa ges should stay home, too
AZ the Seidenberg factory in Cen
trail avenue the pickets said TO-DAY
that they had prevailed upon one
of the four girls who went back yes
terdav to quit today, and that only
tbree Of the 175 strikers were now in
the factory.
Two Disturbances.
Two small disturbances occurred
tbis forenoon, but nothing to amount
to ANYTHING. Five policemen from
the Fifth precinct were on duty. Ihe
nicxets. about twenty in number,
commenced to patrol the sidewalk in
front of the factory soon after D,
o'clock. When the men and women
in other departments not on strike
came along the pickets made an et-
fort to hav5 tiieG stay out. one ma
ture striker was so insistent In Trying
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