Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-19
GARMENT STRIKE ENDS
| As GIRLS WIN ALL BUT
ONE CONTESTED POINT
o,hlesinger, Leader in Move,
will Advise Girls to Return
to Work Tomorrow-Will
Form Wage Board
uANY ARRESTS TODAY
w..tsys Fail to Gain Full Recognition
Of Union, but Are Satisfied.
Mayors Board Thanked

,,, schlesinger, president of the
.,snt workers Union, announced this
e.,I.,oon that the 60OO women and girls
s. All. ~ strike would go back to work to-
morrow mrnins' ,.-,
,d that he had been misunderstood
-. nJaht and early this morning when'
l.s o'clock, the arbitration board, COM
az ~ Mayor Smith, Director wilson,
poseo po,terson. % George W. IIaney and
Juus,, adjourned. Haney represented
nlB'.a,,,fa ctirers, and he and the "neu-
tne -, signed an agreement which gives
usis arment workers everything they
m.,sd ms except complete recognition OF the
unlon 49, -
soh,es,nger refused to sign this agree
., and this led to the BELIEF that the
s.rlke would go on. Schlesinger eNplal'eu s'
Eoas n Justice of the Supreme Court
snc N,ir,es refuses to sign decision,
!ala oaid the fact that majority OF
pus shitration board had signed made
de agreement Venu'
ADVISES RETURN TO WORK.
s.,,,.,r9er said he would go before
s.,.,ss Of strikers at the Parkway
mps,,sing and at 1924 Lombard street this
.starnoon and tell the girls to go PACK
- york He will also attend meeting
=, ~ manufacturers at the Continental no
81 when he and his associates ana rep
..ntatiyes of the other side VIII eject
ss ,,an,hers of the Wage Committee,
..,shiished by the arbitration board. The
go hoard will investigate conditions
% tba next two weeks and then make a
s..rt I~ to the Mayor and his board In the
hnna that some permanent agreement
will follow.
Tba wage board will be composed OF
,hrae members. The same number Will
ri Conn
mlttee, which will be sort OF high
so,,rt Of adjustment between the work
are and their employers. They Will also
sisct two "chlef clerks" one for each
side who will attempt to make settle
ments of disputes as they come up in
the various shops, and keep records OF
De proceedings in future disputes
UNION APPRECIATIvE
sehlesinger made this statement:
> .Tbe union officers are appreciative of
the efforts of the Mayor the Directors
and Judge Patterson. Though they were
Unfamiliar with this field OF industry
and though their decision was not JUST
what we could have desired. we recognize
the quality of their work and the interest
they have shown, in spite of the fact that
they are all very busy men,
GIRL PICKET ARRESTED.
Ida stoller, Of S07 North sth street. was
arrested outside the Biderman factory. at
IA and Chestnut streets, accused of as
saulting Biderman. She was is'harged
At CITY Hall police court and went back
to her post.
FIVE ARRESTS TODAY.
There were five other arrests today,
bringing the total since the strike began
nm 10 Is Clara Kurlnkamski. 10 years
old Of SO Jackson street, was arrested
on the charge of dlsorderly conduct at
18th and Arch streets and taken to city
Hall 1t was said she was trying to
ln;midate girl workers who showed an
Inclination to return to the shops in that
nelghborhood.
Three young girls and a man were ar
rested at Broad and Vine streets. Glenn
ons Budin was accused of blocking the
sidewalk In his appeals to garment work.
srs and when he was arrested Anna
Schwartz is years old, of 1895 German
town avenue Esther Auerbach. II years
DID, of 1903 South Reese street. and Mary
Margolin. IS years old. of 1910 Wolf street,
asked the policeman to let him go. They
also we're arrested. They were all taken
10 City Hall for hearings.
The third day of the strike opened with
hundreds OF the 5000 women and girls who
quit work Monday hurrying to the various
halls Of their ui. n to thresh out the
vltar question of whether or not they
shall return to work.
DEMAND piece" PRICE.
The workers had demanded that COM
mlttees composed of union workers should
be established In each factory to decide
the prices to be paid for pieceworlS.
There are different classes of piecework,
some requiring more. some less. skill and
Industry. The "high-class" piecework is
IMPOSED to be paid for at a higher rate.
But the workers said that the employers
kept all these Glasses" down to as low
rate as they could. and compelled the
unorganized. nonunion workers to take
anything they choose TO give them.
The Arbitration Board was willing to
establish. therefore, the committees which
should nix just rates of payment for the
different classes of work But the manu-
faeturers' attorney. John r. X. Scott.
MADE such vehement appeal against
having the members of these committees
composed entirely of union members that
the arbitration Board said 1t would COM
promise BY having the committees formed
oi both union and nonunion workers
mere said BENJAMIN Schlesinger presi-
aent or the garment workers union, was
where the Mayors board had one put
esef on IT. by the manufacturers, for
WIN non-union workers the committees
would not fix high enough remuneration
iof work. non-union worker, accord
Hs 20 the union definition, was a girl SO
poof and scared that she had not the
nsns 70 stand up to her employers. but
1oula take almost anything they would
strf. IN order to keep the wolf from the
WI For that reason. it was main
s'nea' the manufacturers desired non
eA'a1 and intimidated workers repre-
saess lssa. N order to lower the lowest the
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