The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05
GARMENT BOSSES
/. SLIPPING, De N Y
BIG SETTLEMENT
Raise Red Issue; Want
to Deal with Green
Especial to The Daily Worker

NEW YORK, Aug. 3. - In several
ways the garment bosses represented
by the Industrial Council show that
they are slipping and that the strike
of 10000 cloakmakers Of the hterna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers. union
is winning. This is seen in the denial
of the big shops settled, the attempt to
split the alliance between the CON
tractors and the union, and last but
not least, the customary cry of Com,
munists" against the strikers.
Would Be UNNECESSARILY Satisfied
With Green.
THE Industrial Council" says
Henry H. Finder, president of the
bosses organization, lis not opposed
to treating with labor, but it must in.
sist that representatives of the work
ers are men with the best interests
of industrial America at heart. For
that reason it would afford us i'm
measurable satisfaction if men of the
stamp of President Green of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor were to
identify themselves with the present
crisis in the women's garment indus
try in order to bring about a speedy
peace, satisfactory alike to worker
and employer"
Bosses Concerned for A. F. of L.
Mr.. Finder is very much worried
about the workers in the /. l.. G. w,
which, he says, 'ds taking its counsel
from William 2. Foster, Benjamin Git
low and others who have been repeat
eddy repudiated by the A. F. of L.
These men have been addressing
strikers at their meetings." he adds,
Indignantly.
Despite efforts on the part Of the
Industrial Council of the manufacture
ers' association to minimize the settle
ments being made by the Cloakmakers'
Union with inside manufacturers, the
joint board of the cloakmakers was
able to announce seven additional
agreements, bringing the total settle
ments to date to 81. Several of those
signed up yesterday are important
shops employing a large number of
workers.
Louis Hyman, chairman Of the Gen
eral Strike Committee, denounced as q
fiimsy smoke screen assertions made
by H. Finder, president of the Indus
trial Council, in paid appeals to the
strikers in the Yiddish press that only
unimportant shops are being settled.
Hyman charged Finder with commit
ting crimes of omission by mentioning
in the associations advertisements
shops employing not over 80 workers.
Many Big Shops Settle.
II want to brand as a brazen, des-
| perate attempt to befog our success
the latest broadsides of the manufac-
turers," Hyman declared. 1t is extra
ordinary that the Industrial Council
fails to make reference to the settle
ments completed with the Weinstein
corporation, 1859 Broadway, employ
ing go workers; Faber & Helm, SIS
Seventh Ave, Sc workers; H. Davis &
Son, ia West 26th Street, 20 work
| ers; Dartmoor Coat Co., II East 22nd
street, 68 workers; Henry Fredericks,
2O5 West 39th Street; Schulman G.
Hauptman, 224 West 35th Street; I.
Weingarten, $50 Seventh Avenue; S.
E. S. Line, 229 West Seth Street, all
employing over so workers.
Must Meet Terms.
Regarding the smaller manufacture
ers with whom we settled, want to
say it is not our intention to drive
legitimate manufacturers out of bust
ness, merely because they are small.
Some of them on our list are makers
of highgrade garments working direct
ly for the trade. There is no reason
why they should not continue to exist.
They meet every one of the union con-
ditions in the new agreement and we
are glad to settle with them.
"Mr. Finders argument would be
valid if we refused to settle with large
manufacturers. AS a matter Of fact,
we settle with those applying in the
regular order, irrespective of the size
of their shops or the number of their
employees, as long as we feel con-
fident they will abide by union condi-
tons"
Jobbers Work AS Contractors.
Another breach in the ranks Of the
manufacturers and jobbers was seen
yesterday at the Offices of the joint
board in the appeal yesterday by Ben
jamin Spinrad, an active leader of the
Merchants Ladies Garment Workers
Association, the jobbers' organization,
to the American Cloak and Suit Manu-
facturers' Association, the organiza-
ton of contractors who have thrown
in their lot with the strikers. The con-
tractors have gone on record support
ing the demands OF the workers for
limiting the number OF contractors for
each jobber, feeling that they cannot
survive the present cut-throat competl-
ton among themselves, fostered by
the jobbers. Yesterday Spinrad offer.
ed the contractors an agreement re-
cognizing the contractors minimum
cost OF production" in an effort TO