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Show UNEMPLOYED D WD WORK OF GDVERHMEIVT New York Garment Workers Work-ers Ask Gompers's Assistance. NEW YOEK, Dee. J4.Fifteen hundred hun-dred unemployed cloak and suit work ers, fcat a mass meeting; here today, adopted resoiutions calling upon Samuel Gompcrs, president of the American Federation of Labor, to use his iuflu- j once to have them set at vrork making ; uniforms for the United States govern- J ment. It was declared that 30,000 ' women garment workers oil this city an; unemployed and are without prospects of obtaining work in the near future. ''These workers," the resolution said, "are fully competent to make- military ; uniforms "for the United States army, and their work will be of material help to the government in equipping our national na-tional army with the necessary clothing." cloth-ing." Numerous attempes to have the government gov-ernment turn over contracts for the making of uniforms to manufacturers in the women s garment industry have ; failed, it was declared. A committee from the cloak and suit workers will wait upon lSv. Gompcrs, it was announced, ( to acquaint him with the deplorable conditions existing among the unemployed garment workers in New York, and request him to do all in his power to secure relief.'' President Gompers will be urped to arrange ar-range interviews fur a commiupe from the unemployed cloak makers with the secretary of labor and with the clothing committee of tho council of national dc- . fense to ay before them a plan tor the establishment of a government employment employ-ment bureau. The committee proposes that it be conducted by the United States department of labor and that competent union help be supplied to manufacturers, having" government clothing- contracts. |