The sun., 1916-12-14
QUIT
JOBS, 1860 RETURN
More Than q Third Taken Back
When Manufacturers
Meet Demands.
GRANTED AN 8 HOUR DAY
Three Hundred Factories AZ
fccted Before SO Concerns
Surrendered.

demanding n forty-cight hour working
week and n weekly wage increase Of at
least n dollar. $1,000 workers in 800
! factories devoted TO tho manufacture Of
mems and children's clothing went or
strike at 1880 o'clock yesterday morn
ms. Before night more thar a third
1900. according TO Sidney lilllman,
president Of the ~Amalgamsted Clothing
Workers OF America-rcturned to work.
their demands having been granted.
Tho workers who abandoned the strike
received promises Of an eight hour day,
llillman said. and In some instances a
wage increase exceeding a dollar. but
never as high as So. which was the de-
mand mad by the union when the strike
was first discussed.
These manufacturers Of mems cloth
ing granted the unions demands before
the strike was many hours old. accord
ing TO the announcement j. Eisner 4
Co.: 81 To 30 Fifth street. employing
1.500 workers Levitt. shit & Co. en-
ploying 900. and J. Samuels, 122 Fifth
avenue. with $500 employees. In
cluded also in the number of strikers
VINO returned to work. Hillman said.
were 1000 men and women engaged In
the manufacture of childrcn's clothing In
hfty-ive shops.
Union Chiefs Happy.
The union officials were jubilant over
the reception Of their demands by many
OF the employers and some OF them de-
clared last night that the action meant
practically the downfall Of the American
Clothing Manufacturers Association. A
thousand cutters employed by various
firms had resumed work early in the
afternoon without having received n
wage increase.
Fifteen hundred workers employed by
Samuel Peck & Co. 500 Broadway, also
abandoned the strike. The union presi-
dent said there was no special signif-
canoe In this. as the Peck Arm had en-
tered into an agreement with its men
before the strike order was issued.
Earlier in the day H!llman had pre-
dicted that the strike. II continual.
would result in "A loss 10 manufacturer
Of sl5"OO0. 900. lie placed the value OF
the annual clothing output In this city
At s325. 000. 900.
This is the middle Of the Faster
season. ~ far as the manufacture Of
clothing Is concerned" he explained.
The season extends until April. The
failure OF the manufacturer to deal
with our organization would be likely
TO kill the New York clothing market
5000 Pickets sent Ost.
The union arranged yesterday morning
10 assign 5000 pickets to various points
in the industrial district to prevent the
use OF strIkebreakers. Information that
n number Of manufacturers had ar
ranged to employ strikebreakers. with
guards 10 escort them to and from
work, had been given by a private de-
~ttCtiNc.
Two hundred rlckets gathered in front
Of an establishment AZ Broadway and
Blocker street and dissuaded several
prospective employees from their in
ter ton.
At the outset the strike threatened to
he complicated by the rivalry between
the Amalgamatcd and the United Gar.
ment Workers OF America. When the
former organization presented its de-
mands the United drew up another scale
ana ON Tuesday II reached an agree
ment with some Of the employers. some
OF the Amalgamated's members now ac-
cuse the United Workers Un!on OF act
inv ne "a Efrik. hr.a kar