The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01

with a victory for the worke
work at one o'clock Tuesday after
noon.
The workers voted to return to
work on the basis of an agreement
reached late Monday night and
concluded Tuesday morning, which
includes the following conditions:
Recognition of the shop committee;
that all hiring and firing be done
with the consent of the shop COM
mittee; that all new workers hired
must be members of the Custom
Tailoring Workers Industrial Union;
the establishing of the five-day
eight-hour week and no Saturday
work.
The wage scale on piece work
was so adjusted in the agreement
as to make it possible for the workers
to earn the same wages they did
before the strike.
The agreement provides for the
firing of the three leaders of the
scabs brought into the shop. The
other ten scabs are to appear be-
fore the Grievance Board of the
union. Their failure to comply with
the decisions of the Board will
prevent their further employment.
The lockout, declared in the slack
season, was deliberate attack of
the Merchant Tailors Society, Sill
Fifth Avenue, New York, accord
ing to Alexander Hoffman, organizer
OF the union, to starve out the
workers and to completely destroy
union conditions in the shops.
The lockout was declared when
the workers refused to submit to the
introduction Of piece work on a
basis which substantially cut their
wages from 25 to 80 per cent.
The strike is part Of the prepara-
tons being made by the union for
a general strike in the custom
tailoring industry, for the total and
immediate abolition of home work,
no Sunday work, a 35-hour week
and no community shops.
In preparation for the strike the
union has declared stoppages in
many shops, gaining increases of
wages for the workers and fore
ing the manufacturers to open their
shops to inside work instead of the
hated home work system.
The union, according to Hoffman,
has at present contractual rela-
tons with 125 concerns, employing
1900 of the 1900 workers
IN an attempt to demoralize the
st-ikers, the company succeeded
ten days ago, in getting Jacob Stoll,
a member of the Executive Com
mittee of the union and a leader in
the strike, convicted on felonious
assault by Judge Corrigan in Spe-
cial Session Court, and sentenced
to 500 days in jail.
This attempt, however, had the
reverse effect The pressure of the
strikers, enraged by such action,
forced the changing of the verdict
to $500 fine A meeting of shop
chairmen and delegates last Mon
day decided to contribute a days
wages each for the release Of Still.
In two days 5000 were raised.
The actions of the bosses sup
ported by the police and the courts,
Hoffman stated, yesterday, will not
stop us from preparing for the gen.
eral strike.
Police Commissioner Lewis j.
Valentine, the union was informed
yesterday, refused the request Of
the union for a permit to parade
on Fifth Avenue on the grounds
that it is mot within the law"
1t is perfectly within the law
for the police, the MIRA. and sim
liar organizations, Hoffman said, to
parade on Fifth Avenue, but for
the workers there is no room with
in the law"
The union has arranged dem
onstration for 1890 Saturday on
53rd st. near Fifth Avenue. All GUS
tom tailors and furriers along the
Avenue have been invited to at
tend the demonstration, he said.
Ben Gold, national secretary
treasurer of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, with
which the Custom Tailors are a1f1li-
ated, will address a mass meeting
of custom tailors at $50 Monday
evening at the Irving Plaza Hall,
on the problems of the industry and
the preparations Of the general
strike.
The union has sent letters, Hoff-
man announced, to the Merchant
Tailors Society and to individual
merchant tailors calling for imne-
date conferences to discuss the
abolition of home work and The
establishing Of union conditions in
the shops.
This, however, he said, IN no way
will delay the preparation Of the
general strike in the industry.