The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
new COMMITTEE
80.
CROWS OUT OF
TALK ON STRIKE
Oscar Nelson Is the
Lone Labor Member.

AS the result Of the strike confer
ence held by union officials, members
of the special citizens committee and
a representative of the smaller gar
ment employers in the Office of Mary
Mcdowell, commissioner of Public
Welfare, yesterday afternoon a sub
committee was chosen to take action
towards settling the strike.
The committee contains only one
representative of labor, Oscar Nell
son, Of the Postal Clerks Union
and representative of the Chicago
Federation's TG-mmittee of Is" at
the strike conference. Dean Holgate,
of Northwestern University; Miss
Mary Mcdowell, commissioner Of Pub
lice Welfare, and Earle Dean How
ard, labor manager Of the firm of
Hart, Schaffner and Marx, are the
other members.
They were appointed by Father
Seidenberg, of Loyola University,
chairman of the citizens committee,
and is instructed to gather data on
wages, hours and working conditions,
as well as police brutality and to
hold conferences between the union
representatives and the various
groups into which the employees are
divided.
Optimism was breathed by Miss
Mcdowell, Father Seidenberg and
Clarence barrow, who attended the
conference as union attorney. But
the two-score strikers who tried to sit
IN at the conference, but were kept
apart with other visitors at a meeting
of their own in the auditorium on the
top floor, are replying on the picket
lines first and on the negotiators sec
ond.
"Strike Strong"
Zone thousand workers are back
under shop settlements already" said
President Morris Sigman to a DAILY
WORKER representative. "T h e
strike is strong"
The lone boss, from the firm of
Bleeck and Arnold, of 237 S. Market
Street, talked to a DAILY WORKER
reporter after the conference and as
sured his willingness to settle with
the union-if he could get some con-
cessions, and he said a large group
of smaller employers he unoficially
represented would do the same. His
eagerness indicated that he will soon
be willing to settle on any terms.
A mock heroic stage play act was
INDUCED in by two big employers
who have been hard hit by the strike
for union conditions.
Arthur Weiss, of the w. Adams
ctrannf frsyta
have been arrested, came clustering
-aro7Td- to the Commissioner of Pub
lie Welfare's office where the settle
ment conference was staged yester-
day, with a certain Mr.. McLain, rep
resenting the big scab firm of
Mitchell.
Boss Buster
As he was entering the conference
room, he saw the figures of Morris
Sigman, president of the Information
al Ladies' Garment Workers Union,
and Meyer Perlstein, vice-president.
What! Meet with union repre-
sentatives," said Weiss; "No, in
deedw
Asked whom he expected to see at
"strike settlement" conference,
Weiss angrily declared that he had
nothing to talk over with the union.
that his employees were working
and happy"
Weiss Backs Down
After this little piece of acting,
Weiss went into another room to con-
fer with the Citizens committee
and Oscar Nelson, a representative
Of organized labor.
Nelson refused to discuss the re-
suits Of the conference afterwards,
but the talk about the place was that
Weiss was weakening.
All this while the crowd that had
been shunted off from a conference
that they had supposed was to be
public, so that whatever arrangement
developed, would be a covenant
openly arrived att, were sitting in
the auditorium on the top floor of the
City Hall Square Building.
Boss's Lie Nailed
Father Seidenberg, fresh from his
talk with Weiss downstairs, came up
and reported to the throng that
Weiss and the other big employers
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