The sun., 1919-02-13
PATERSON STRIKE
SEEMS NEAR END
Agreement Reached to Refer
Textile Workers Demand To
L. s. McdiatOrs.
10000 OVERS RETURN
Report for Work, Leaving
Only 1900 Out--Passaic
Walkouts Spread.
10000 OVERS RETURN

The end of the Paterson textile strike
may come to-day with the announce.
ment OF an agreement between the labor
delegates and the manufacturers at
where they went to refer
their troubles TO a committee OF De.
partment of Labor representatives
Whatever the agreement is the in.
dications were strong yesterday that this
10000 to $4,000 workers may
return to work. Except for the per.
sistent opposition of the 1000 l. W. w
who refuse TO accept anything less than
a forty-four hour schedule the mill,
may be running with their full number
of employees.
Many Return to Work.
1t was discovered that instead o.
900 workers there are only about
L 900 now striking. After the first few
days the dyers employed in the SIX
plants began to return voluntariiv, MAJ.
ing no terms at all with their employ
ers. This dropping away OF the union
ranks has increased steadily this week
and the announcement was made bv
Henry Doherty. president Of the Donerty
SILK Company. speaking for the manu-.
facturers, that 10000 dyers have re.
turned and the business OF that DEPART.
ment in practically every mill OF Pat.
erson and vicinity Is now at normal
The goods are being sent to other cities
including PHILADELPHIA. for finishing.
Mr.. Doherty said that in view OF this
situation the broad silk mill owners had
decided to Open their plants at O'Clock
this morning and will reemploy all who
report on a fifty hour working schedule,
pending the settlement at Washington
IT Is estimated that $50 firms are con.
cerned in this move. employing about
$4,000. II the workers accept the terms
the strike will virtually be over.
No settlement has yet been reached n
the ribbon silk plants owing to N.
strike of weavers. The l. W. w. met IN
Institute Hall to hear a speech ~
Adolph Lessig, a radical leader, who
urged the workers TO stay out as long
As was necessary to win the forty-fout
hour schedule.
I'VE shall accept no compromise" -
said. 1.-The others may II they wish
but we will stand firm
Lessig claimed 5000 workers would
stand with him. and II Is understood
that in case the workers return TO tire
broad silk mills to-day they VIII be ne;
by I. W. w. pickets.
Police Ready for Anything.
Chief OF Police Tracey was informed
OF the plan and announced he would
have a small army of policemen ready
at o'clock this morning to prevent
trouble at the plants.
A wire was received from Louis Mag
net. the labor representative - tNs
Washington conference. that a deciSio'
might be expected to-day. Some roN'
Germ was felt among the workers over
the report that the War Labor Board e
meeting in Chicago, and they had no de-
sire to have their affairs referred t. any
other body. Magnets telegram stated
that the Department OF Labor is a-'ns
as the mediator
Two OF the biggest dyeing COMPARES
the National and the Weidmsnu, were
reported running on full time, with al
their striking employees back on no
Job. The dyers make from $40 70 S3} A
week under the fifty hour working s'aet'
ule and apparently have forgotten t'.-
complaint.
In Passac the situation was mace
more serious by strikes OF 80 operators
AT the OKOnlte hanuldtluI4llG ''li|F""
200 weavers of the Dundee Textile Cow
rany and smaller strikes az the 'r.'t'
rion Handkerchief Company auo p.
Standard Rleachery. in Carlton. suu.'A
No demands were served on the l'H' %
manufacturers. and all four co. rt-'
may be forced to close within '."
days.
After wranglng a week over TIE ~
nation of a local union tina, - Les
the l. W. W. committees of tho ne" o.
SANITATION Yesterday visited IL, MS
and presented formal demands -
plant owners. They demand ~" ''r'.'
four hour work schedule, 60 pc- 80,
increase in wages. recognition o. -
union and improved factory 'o"a ''R
No answer was made y, TIE :t' Z
facturers. but directors Wect"c- WI
he held to-day. II is belie' ed tt-t t.'
demands will he CONSIDERED too '.'
and at least one employcr ht- ..7''
publicly that the mills viii renal. "''l
rather than yield to suyn terms
The unioui5ts headed hr MAJ -
Pluhar. are preparing for ln0s o.'.-
They say that they have fl0d- p" A'.
more than "A month, and uHHf . '.-
resources 100000 in Liberty p""',,
Sc, 900 in membership fec a.H
fund which H. heinz raised b" Al
subscription about the city
None of the six big mills '.t ''i
last Thursday has reopcrra 7'' -
Of the workers is returning T' y,
pected ] w. w. aGitators No. 'l
out of town BY the polio"
LAWRENCE. Mass, Fob - ''>-
tile strike has passed the crisis F." SOW
eral mills were reported to-n.E. - '.N',
resnm!ng normal productio" "
Read. agent Of the Plymouth Ms ''..
that out OF $50 employees only sN were
absent to-day.
John Mercer of the Ar..rG'-r
said that he was having d.N'N'F
finding work enough for all IL"
tlves who had returned. The '."e,
Mills expect 10 reopen next TueSt'''
was stated, owing 10 the grsdue i'.t"
OF workers.
Picket lines were thinner todd. ="
since the beginning Of the S'r.h' ''' wv
far afeyh