New-York tribune., 1916-06-19
Manufacturers Statement
Scores New York and
Strikers.
DOCTORS TO HELP
STARVING BABIES
East Side Physicians Seek Some
Means of Alleviating
Suffering.


manufacturers and locked out and
striking employees in the cloak, suit and
skirt industry is TO become eternal, so
far as New York City is concerned, say
the manufacturers, through the re-
moval Of their plants to neighborlng
communities.
In a statement issued yesterday by
the Manufacturers Protective Associa-
tion which fairly bristled with bitter
denunciation Of the striking workers
and OF the failure of New York authori-
ties to protect the industry. 1t was
announced that the entire body of man
ufacturers was preparing 70 move It's
plants elsewhere. The announcement
comes as an answer to the hunger cry
Of the employees, for while it was being
prepared a body of East Side physi-
clans was in session at $50 East Fourth
Street, trying TO contrive some means
Of saving from starvation hundreds OF
strikers babies.
After pointing out that the cloak, suit
and skirt industry in this city does q
yearly business Of s250,000000, the
statement of the manufacturers says:
Unions TO Blame.
What the passing from New York
Of such an enormous industry means
will be readily understood by any one
who cares TO give it a minutes thought.
There is not the least doubt that
the unions have forced this issue and
that our members have taken up the
gage and are ready 10 adopt the means
Of salvation at hand. To-day there are
open and running in four nearby states
125 garment factories which have gone
away from New York never to return.
Apart from what the removal of this
industry will mean 20 tho community
at large the loss OF big payrolls and
the loss of many workers who will fol-
low the industry if they remain in it
let the interested persons figure up the
loss in rental and real estate values
that will follow the exodus from New
York.
"Of course. this city will still be the
mecca for buyers. Nearly all the
houses will have elaborate showrooms
here, where their lines can be dis
played, but the industry itself in a
short time will be gone as completely
az though it had never existed. II the
union continues its oppressive tactics
other Industries allied to ours will also
take ~ quarters outside New York.
Charity and Wages.
1T will be we'll for the meddlers who
are able TO solve every problem to pom
der this situation. They cannot make
objects of charity of the competent men
and women who prefer TO take the good
pay that is assured them rather than
to have their pittances OF charity doled
out TO them
Other paragraphs Of the statement
refer TO the "barefaced falsehoods
given to the public by the sob sisters"
and the square deal" TIE manufactur-
ers have failed TO get from New York
City.
The desperate situation in which
many of the striking and locked-out
employees find themselves was sum
married yesterday by Robert Bruere
after the conference of physicians in
East Fourth Street
while the strikers are standing
solid, there is the greatest suffering
among them" he declared The East
Side physicians who are aiding them
have found any number Of cases where
men and women want food and where
babies are without milk The strike
has now reached a point where the gem
erous assistance of the public is neces-
sary. Public aid Of a substantial char
acter will alleviate the tremendous suf-
fering everywhere apparent"