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Show THE WORKWOMEN'S LEADER. Thomas B. Oarslds, Who Conducted the Cloakmakers Strike. It has been a long time since a strike has occurred in New York which has caused so much suffering to its participants partici-pants as that of the cloakmakers. At one time thousands were literally on the verge of starvation. The locked out men were mostly Polish Jews, and showed the greatest disinclination to accept aid from outside sources. A reporter re-porter went into one house where a striker and bis wife and three children were living. The man acknowledged that they had had but one meal a day for weeks, bat spoke quickly in protest when charity was suggested, and iinully, to prove that he needed no assistance, assist-ance, brought out live cents, which he asked the reporter re-porter to give to dome one more needy than he. Whether they wore right or wrong the cloak- makers made a T. h. carbide. heroic fight. They braved hunger and all manner of other discomforts in order to gain their point with a persistence that has been seldom equaled. In the course of the fight the figure of Thomas H. Garside loomed up, naturally, natur-ally, into considerable prominence. He is an Englishman by birth and is only 86 years old. He became a clergyman, but in 1883, two or three years after he came to this country, he abandoned the Christian faith, becoming in turn a materialist, ma-terialist, a socialist and an anarchist. He was a member of the Knights of Labor, and his anarchistic tendencies made enemies for him of many of the socialists belonging to that organisation. They claimed that he cared nothing for tho cause of labor, but only wanted notoriety. Stories were circulated that he had hired a man to clnb him, and had pretended that he had been poisoned in order to make himself talked about, but the men who started them have since been expelled from the party. Mr. Gar-side Gar-side had charge of several important strikes before he took the helm for the cloakmakers. |