New-York tribune., 1916-06-13
Group of Arrested Gar
ment Workers Later Gets
Suspended Sentence
$4,000 PICKETS
TAKE UP DUTIES
All Work Quietly 49, Plan for
Partial Peace in Industry
Is Suggested.

Fourteen arrests yesterday opened
the eighth week Of the cloak and suit
makers strike. Early IN the morning
Captain William A. Bailey, with twelve
men from the West Thirtieth Street
station, hurried TO aid the patrolman
on guard at los Madison Avenue and
found a struggling crowd OF five hun
dred strikers.
He first tried persuasion, his Yiddish
interpreter attempting TO spread the
doctrine Of peace and fear Of the law.
As the strikers refused to disband'
fourteen Of the more insistent were
arrested, charged with disorderly con-
duet. Later. in Jefferson Market Court
before Magistrate Koenig, they re-
ceived suspended sentences.
Just before midnight Sunday the
first Of tho $4,000 pickets assigned to
duty went 10 their stations, which COW
cred the entire district from Seven
teenth 70 Thirsy-fourth Street, along
Fifth Avenue and the side streets.
Every four hours pickets were changed.
Little groups Of two or three walked
tirelessly before factory buildings,
talking mainly IN foreign languages.
Occasionally some one fshed fruit or
sandwiches from q convenient pocket
and ate IN all earnestness. but other
wise all was quiet
Want Strike Ended.
One woman, attempting TO 80 in the
side entrance Of the Godde Building,
az 1o9 Madison Avenue, was stopped
by q woman picket Of ample size, who
blocked TIE doorway and demanded
what the visitor wanted. When told
Work" she replied:
"You can't work here. Nobody works
now. l have two children and four
times a week come from Bayonne to
walk around. It cost me % cents each
tine and the union only give me $3
week for eating and all. used 70
make some time $50 a week now notn-
ing. Maybe they keep you there all
week and you have 10 eat there. ihey
pay bad, too. Scab work no good
strike began. and | wish II would be /.
all over quick" said q red-faced woman /
who rushed up. Starving's no fun and I
ifyou try 70 work at any other trade .
YOU got to pay the union q quarter or /
what you get or they won't let you 7.
20 back"
Partial Peace" Plan.
In front Of a shop on West Twenty
fourth Street two young girls were
discussing the art of picketing
"But say, Yetta, honest, l wouldn't /
know what 7 should do if any scab went |
in. How should l know a scab from /
q regular guy?'
81 don't know neither" the other re-
rhed. "They told me 20 talk to every /.
one nice and tell them TO help us.
guess maybe that's the right way, so
not to make trouble.
BENJAMIN Schlesinger, president Of
the international Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, yesterday received a
letter from Lucian s. Breckenridge,
counsel for the Mutual Cloak, Suit and
Skirt Manufacturers Association, Of
fering q suggestion to bring about
partial peace to the industry" It
urged Z az a collective agreement be
tween the international Ladies' Garment
urers' association be entered into by
means Of & board of arbitration, which
would make the terms public. 10 was
suggested that two or three members
from each side be appointed and that
the chairman be named by the Mayor
A committee Of fifty was also ap-
pointed yesterday 20 gather funds for
financing the strike. Mr.. Schlesinger ex-
planned. II was also announced that all
Hebrew workingmen's associations in
this city were getting ready to aid
the strike Of the United Hebrew Trades
and Workmen's Circle; representatives
will meet tonight in Public School So.
Conferences have also been planned for
Boston, Cleveland. Montreal and other
cities.
n Women Aid Strike.
,l Ten thousand dollars from the Anal
y gAmated Clothing Workers Of An erica,
$4,000 from tho New York Daily For
ward Association and $1,000 from the
Furriers' Union were received yester-
day at the Offices Of the Jewish Social
ist Federation.
Among the we'll known women who
are contributing to the strikers cause
are Mrs. Ogden Reid, Mrs. Willard D.
Straight, Miss Ruth Morgan, Mrs.
Learned Hand, Mrs. Benjamin Guggen-
helm, Mrs. Clifford Pinchot, Mrs. James
Leeds and Mrs. Fred Mason.
Students from Barnard College, City
College, the Rand School and Columbia
University are organizing picketing
committees, which will start 10 work
either to-day or tomorrow.
Although Charles Heinemsn, an Off
cial Of the Cloak and Suit Makers
Protective Association. said twenty-five
additional shops had resumed work. Mr..
Schlesinger declared that 400 shops
were omen. hut nnhndv WIS unrLino. l.,