The sun., 1919-02-09
TEXTILE STRIKERS
AGREE ON TRUCE
$1,000 Silk Workers of Pater-
son Will Return to Work
Tomorrow.
WAR BOARD TO DECIDE
Signs Of General Resumption
Appear as Both Sides Make
Concessions.

The atst definite rift in the textile
strike situation came early this morning
when an agreement was reached be-
tween representatives OF the $1,000 silk
workers on strike in Paterson. ". j..
and representatives Of the employers
there to submit all of their differences
to the National War Labor Board.
The strikers will 60 back to work to-
morrow morning. For several hours
their representatives held out for the
demand that they return TO work pend
ing the Labor Boards decision on
forty.seven hour week basis. The en-
pioyers insisted they should start work
again on the basis Of fifty hour week.
which was In force when the strike be-
gan Six hours Of wrangling, however,
resulted in agreement that the war
Labor Board be permitted to decide that
question too,
Prospect Of resumption OF work by
t5e.o0o textile workers in New England
and the North Atlantic States early this
week was announced last night from
Washington. In Lawrence. Mass, Bos-
ton. Philadelphia, Biddeford and Saco.
Nc. and in half a dozen Rhode Island
mills Federal mediators have been
quietly working to bring about an
agreement. and they believe they will
be successful. In every instance the
manufacturers are yielding to the de
rands for shorter hours and increased
pay.
Concessions at Lawrence.
A notable concession was rendered
the strike committee in Lawrence. Mass,
yesterday by the manufacturers in offer
Ing fifty-one hours pay for forty-eght
hours work. It is a complete admission
of the demand for an eight hour day
and lacks but little of meeting the f,ill
demand for ffty-four hours pay. The
measure under consideration last
night nv the workers committee ard
will not oe acted upon finally until
Monday.
The Pacific Print Works at Lawrence
notified their employees TO appear for
work Monday. The plant has been closed
for week due to striking machinists
and firemen. and will reopen on the
basis OF forty-eight hours Of work with
forty-eight hours pay.
In Rhode Island five textile mills, en-
pIoying $500. announced they will grant
the forty-eight hour schedule asked for
and will resume work Monday.
Henry J. Skefrington, Commissioners
OF immigration at Boston. who was APP
pointed 10 act as conciliator for the Law
renee and Maine strikes. said:
We have been in constant touch Wit,
the situation from the outset. but we
have gone about our work quietly and
without any desire for publicity. Through
personal contact with the various eie-
ments concerned we believe We have
brought about better understanding
and next week will show how successful
We have been. We shall continue to lie
busily engaged until matters are com.
pletely settled"
The report from Washington said thu,
the textile situation throughout New
Jersey and New England is rapidly
CLEARING. Two commissioners from the
Department OF Labor have been assigned
to Philadelphia. where a settlement 4:
expected this week.
Agreement in Paterson.
In Passaic, y. j., 500 more employee.
went out yesterday. bringing the total ot
Idle to 1890. The sympathy" striker.
were from the Acheson Harden Com
psny. handkerchief manufacturers, ant
the Long Handkerchief Company. TIL,
Acheson Harden Company closed. TIL,
demands are for forty-four hours ant
wage increases running UP to 100 pc
cent. Four hundred girls OF the Ameri
can Cigar Company at Garfield, WHIT
went out Friday, served the plant man
ayers with their demands yesterday
based on a forty-four hour week ant
wage Increases OF IS cents a hundrc,
cigars handled
-Four men who repre scented themselve
TO he general organizers Of the carmen
workers in New York were taken b.
the police from the platform at a radca
silk strikers meeting In Paterson las
night. were warned In police headauar
ters they would not be allowed to d
lea fV, DntA
we're put on an Erie Railroad tral
bound for New York and told not t
return.
They said they were n. Kleinmar
julius Powers. L. Goldstein and NJ Con
cerelli. They were waiting 10 speak q
meeting under the auspices of the
W. w. and the Workers lntrrnationa
Industrial Union in Institute Hail. .
Market street. Chief of Police job
Tracey arose from his seat IN the crow
and said
mo out OF town agitators will b
allowed in Paterson"
At his signal twenty pollceme
marched down the aisle TO the platform
surrounded the four men and escorte
them from the hall while the crow
"booed"
Passaic police were treated to a Wis
from Adolph Lessig, an I. W. W. agits
tor. whose place Of business at a Dayto
avenue was Tdlueu. IeSSlg announce
that he objected TO his work being intel
fered with and declared that he ha
come 20 Passaic to stay. Chief Kehc
told him the workers had voted down n
l. w. w. proposals and that nobody pre-
posed 10 have the organization actl
on the scene Lessig withdrew diI
Eruntled and later in the day headed fC
Paterson. Ills parting shot was this;
you have got serious sltuatio
here that you can't AFFORD to monke
with. Before You know II Passaic vi
be another Seattle. These 10000 OF
here are going TO give trouble unle'
they get what they want, and I'm goin
30 stand by and see them get H."
The Passaic manufacturers announce
that they are ready for as long stril
as the workers. and that they viii /
satisfied 10 remain closed indeflnitel
and welcome the rest. None OF the mil
will reopen Monday.