The sun., 1919-10-14
LABOR DISPUTES
AFFECT SCORES
OF CITY TRADES
Aside From Big Strikes
Hundreds of Small Ones
Are in Progress Here.
UNREST GROWS GENERAL
Thousands idle Unwillingly
Because Related Industries
Catch the Fever.

There were at least 220, 900 men and
yesterday because of strikes. Fifty
thousand Of this number are not con-
sidered strikers but workers thrown
out OF employment because related
trades had quit. Another $4,000 work.
ers could be added as being affected by
strikes in individual shops, stores. fac
tories and SO on. These latter have
not quit work because the officials of
their particular unions have called
them out, but have ceased operations
by way of rebuke to their particular
employer or employers. 1t is esti-
mated that there are, or were yester-
day. about 100 individual shop strikes
in the city.
Neither does this total include So
,alled OUTLAW" unions. except in the
case OF some of the printers and press
men. No attempt is made to take into
account the unions which maintain
headquarters outside the city. These
figures have to do solely with New
York city. not with the metropolitan
district.
For instance it Is safe to say that the
harbor strike. including the longshore-
men, the tug boat captains, pilots and
bos tmen. the marine engineers. firemen
and coal passers and 30 on affects more
| than 100000 men here and over on the
New Jersey shore. At least $4,000 men
| are out OF work. but not actual partici-
| pants in the strike. They had to quit
because the strike paraiyzed work in
| the harbor and at the docks. And OF
. those actually on strike Just about 5000
| live in New York city and belong to
| New York unions
Strikes Drag Out the Unwilling,
| About 5000 expressmen quit work
yesterday. This threw out about an
equal number of helpers and drivers and
| leaders not members of unions or, IL
union men. not in sympathy with the
strike. The cigar makers are out al
most to a man. Approximately $4,000
are affected by this walkout. Ernest
| Bohm, secretary of the American Labor
Party of Greater New York, estimates
| the number OF millinery work strikers
at 1900, although the employers will
not admit these numbers. The far
| reaching building trades union with al
its dependent and contiguous organiza'
tions claims that $4,000 men In that
branch OF endeavor are out
Despite the fact that the striking ex'
pressmen claim that 1900 members Of
their union are out Ernest Bohm de-
| clared that only 5000 were on strike
L. An nd
ditional 5000 helpers and leaders ant
so on are out OF work because Of th'
strike. It was declared.
The laundry strike Is hard to analyz'
yet, but 1t IL considered as reasonable
TO estimate that 1000 workers are idle
The piano workers claim 10000 OF
strike.
The great trouble with this sort Of 1
resume Is that a few hours after 1t L
completed its figures may be who'll!
wrong. Strikes are blooming and with
ering every day, A certain tailor ma!
be sailing along serenely, but to-day o.
tomorrow, because he refuses to furnisl
individual soap and towel to each of hi
employees. he finds his entire staff oil
strike while his chief rival, a blocl
further down the street, is turning work
ers away.
Receives OF Trouble on East Side
Because a garment manufacturer oc
cupying a loft over on the East Side re
fused yesterday to clean the window
before 2 o'clock In the afternoon hi
employees quit in n body and almos
Immediately found employment in othe
|, shops where the demand for worker
exceeded the available supply. In an
other downtown garment nanufactory
. wallet containing 81 was stolen fror
: the coat of one OF the employees. I'm
mediately the boss was informed that
|, was his fault because he did not furnis
Individual lockers for his employee:
, The entire force quit. saying that the
might return when the lockers were in
stalled.
p Such isolated strikes will each affec
anywhere from twenty-five to a hun
4 dred workers. It is quite impossible
a tell how many there are, for some dis
putes are settled in a day; indeed, som
+ last less than a day. Such are the con
ditions in these small isolated labo
! wars that employers are fightlng en-
I ployers and haling each other int
4 court, Abe Lipkovitch claiming. for ir
Q stance. that because he was maxim
more than his rival Moe Spivak, Mo
sent agitators to arouse the Lipkovitc
r employees to strike fever with promise
Q of more money at the Spivak factory.
b II Is not unlikely that to-day will &c
the milk wagon drivers and the baker
{ employees on strike. Undoubtedly tn
Q expressmen will be strengthened by at
ditional numbers focking to their strih
Z banners The sugar warehouse and r,
. fnery workers are almost on gener.
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