The Washington times., 1933-08-16
BID To PARLEY
SEESPER|L To
CODE PLANS
Leaders of $4,000 in WaIkout
Reminded of Presidents
Mediation Machinery

NEW YORK, Aug. 16 G.N.SO
A strike of 10000 dress workers
today paralyzed the city's dress
industry and quickly brought a
demand for settlement from Gro
yer A. Whalen, representing the
NRA.
The first disorder occurred al
Bryant Hall when mounted pa
trolmen inadvertently bowled over
three women strikers who were
waiting with several thousand
others to register on the union
rolls.
Whalen Asks Farley
Whalen's demand for action
was addressed to six leaders OF
strikers and employers. He asked
them to meet with him at his
office in the Hotel Pennsylvania
tomorrow noon. His letter said:
"The strike that has just been
called in your industry affecting
employment of $4,000 workers
in the city requires immediate
action on your part.
"The strike calls for at least
temporary settlement on the
questions at issue until you can
agree on a permanent code.
The President has set up
machinery to give both sides in
an industrial dispute an Op-
DOrtunity to be heard before an
impartial board.
5000 SHOPS HIT
Gas patriotic citizens of the
United States you will un-
d0ubtedly take full advantage
of the presidential instrument
thus afforded to erect a fair
and equitable settlement Of in
dustriaI disputes.
''I am inviting you to confer
with me as chairman of the
Presidents emergency reem-
pIOyment committee Of New
York City in the hope that you
will agree to a temporary set
tlement of the pending strike"
More than 5000 shops in the
metropolitan area are affected,
2,40O of them in the city proper,
1850 Pickets Out
This morning $500 pickets
took up their duties, determined
that no worker should enter or
leave the closed plants.
The strike, described by labor
leaders as the most carefully or
ganized movement in years, was
called promptly at 10 a. m. by
David Dubinsky, president of the
International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, and Julius Hoch-
man, general manager Of the
joint board of the Dress and
Waist Makers Union.
A second strike, completely sep
arated from the right wing move
ment, was put into effect at 10
a. m. by the Needle Trade Workers
Industrial Union, c o m m u N S
group. About 5000 workers were
called out in every branch Of the
garment industry.
Aimed at SweatshOps
From Washington, it was re
ported that DR.. Leo Wolman, head
of the labor advisory board Of the
NRA, and his chief, Administrator
Hugh S. johnson, would make
strong efforts for mediation.
The right wings immediate de-
mands are for 3O-hour week and
wages of $50 a week for cutters.
$1.lO an hour for operators, and
$26 for finishers. But, in reality
these are side issues.
Hochman maintains that the
strike is directed at the jobberS
who foster the system of farming
out labor at low wages and long
hours to contractors.
The strike will attempt to put
an end to sweatshop conditions
Hochman added.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, Aug. II
1,N,SO.-Several hundred CLOAK
workers in Connecticut went or
strike today as part of the move
ment which, according to thell
leaders, is designed to force gar
ment shop owners to comply witt
the NRA in hours and wages.
CHICAGO, Aug. is Q.N.SO
While New York's dress industry
was paralyzed today by a strike
of $4,000 workers, it was reported
that plans for a similar strike Of
5000 employees here are being pre-
pared.
BY International News Service
Representatives of owners ano
labor involved in the strike OF
$4,000 garment workers in New
York will be summoned before
the National Labor Board here
tomorrow, acting chairman Lee
Wolman said today.
He Votes y Years,
Discovers He's Alien