Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-30 | Page 1 | New York Strikers Return to Work

NEW YORK STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK NEW YORK. Oct. 29. The general strike committee of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, of whose membership 15,000 workers on boys' clothing went on strike yesterday, announced an-nounced today settlements providing for the union demands of a forty-four -hour week and a SO per cent increase in wages bad been effected with the employers of about 1000 strikers. The strikers professed suspicion of the employers' desire i o refer t he matter to tho war labor board, declaring that at the same time that they are urging arbitration, arbitra-tion, they are assembling a huge war fund to be used against the union. Pour hundred .workers on children's clothing ordered by the lied Cross for homeless children in France, Belgium and Italy returned to work today at the direction di-rection Of Harry Cohen, manager of the joint board of the children's clothing trade, despite the fact t hat factories holding ooni raots for this clothing have not acceded to the union's demands. Denial was made by officials of tho Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America of a charge that an effort was being made to involve the military uniform uni-form industry in the strike.