The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-08-16
Garment Workers
of State on Strike
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OPERATOR in front of the factory.
she was booked on breach Of peace
charges.
All but two Of the local factories
were said to have closed.
Reports from Middletown, Col
chester, Norwalk,N New Britain,
Stamford and New Haven, indicat-
ed most Of the workers In those
towns had refused to return to
work.
Investigators from the state
labor department, Miss Helen
Wood Morgan Mooney, and Edna
Purtell, visited New Haven and
Bridgeport to confer with labor or
ganizers and check up on condi-
lions. The labor department am
nounced the walkout Of cloak max
ers 100 per cent effective while in
the dress industry there appeared
some difficulty in getting the work
ers out because Of their lack OF
understanding Of the movement.
Egan's ONCE here was establish
ed as state headquarters for the
strike. Bernard Schube, of New
York, Connecticut representative
for the National Needle Workers
Organization, conferred with Jo-
seph M. Tone, state labor commits
sioner this morning, and returned
to Bridgeport to address a mass
meeting Of workers this afternoon.
A preliminary organization,
through whicN the labor federation
hopes to unionize every worker in
the state. was to be set UP today.
I'VE know the road we have
taken and where we are going, :"
Egan declared.
He said many shops closed last
night, in anticipation of today's
and that he had received
reports that New York jobbers had
to accept shipments which
arrived from Connecticut factories
today.
The strike, said Egan, will end
in the state. We are
the presidents agreement
to the limit and will demand a $14
wage scale on 40-hour
week schedule. No notice will be
taken of offers at compromise
which do not measure up to this
One Of the factories, where OPP
orators went on strike today. paid
81 a week, said Egan.
New York, Aug .16.-(UP)-
Garment workers walked out today
in a determined strike for better
under the MIRA in New York, New
Yorse,r o~l CA~~nof;n,,t a
The strike involving $4,000 work.
ers appeared to be effective
the metropolitan area.
Connecticut expected complete
tie-up."
Workers in some $500 shops
generally expressed hope that the
would be a death blow to
They gavet he admin
lstration the first major strike
problem since President Roosevelt
asked for moratorium on indus
trial disputes.
AS the zero hour for the strike
passed, thousands of workers in
the shops in and about the city
to pour out into the
streets. In the normally congested
garment district zoo
policemen fought against the i'm
possible odds to keep the crowds
!, The workers gathered in excited
knots for some time before march
ing to the nine halls where strike
were scheduled.
No trouble was anticipated by
police but detectives in the radical
and bomb squads watched for
known agitators to avoid clashes
between left wing workers and
members of the more conservative
Many Of the strikers are affiliat-
Thye gave the admin
Trades Workers Industrial union
and most of the others with the
Dress and Waist Makers Union, af-
filiated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Sympathy strikes have been call
ed in the branches of the industry
which make leggings, snow-suits,
infants wear and novelties, total
of about $500 workers. Union Of
ficials said truck drivers had pre-
scented demands and also were
ready to strike.
The United Dress Manufacturers
which claims member
ship of about so per cent of the
contractors in New York, New Jer-
sey, and Connecticut, voted a gen.
eral shutdown of all shops, effec-
tive with the walkout.
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