Show GARMENT WORKERS STRONG END STRIKE E Agreement ement Is Reached Reach d in Which Victory Is Claimed by the Union on NEW YORK July 22 After After a bitter fight lasting tasting for nearly three months the garment workers workers' workers workers' workers workers' work work- ers' ers strike w was S at t an end here tonight ight Up Upwards ards of men and nd w women m n will r return turn to work in vanous various various vari- vari van vari ous cloak and suit factories as a a. re result result re- re sult stilt of an aki m nt re reached ch d l late te to today today today to- to day which union leaders acclaimed a 1 distinct victory for th the workers Threats of f t federal fedral Interference are be believed believed believed be- be to h have ve ha hastened te d th the agreement gre between the manufacturers manufacturers' rs' rs association ss i Uon arid and the union leaders Starting with a. a a l lockout by many nany employers employers employers em em- when the the workers demanded increased wages the st strike sti-ike spread to all branches of ot t thi the e g garment makh making g trade and the extended idleness Idlene s r re resulted suIted in great sUffering sUffering- D Demands n Gr Granted nt d. d The principal demands for which the the workers fought and which were granted granted grant grant- ed in the le agreement finally are Five FIe per per cent increase in wages preferential shop and a registration i system for the subletting of contracts The workers also won t their demand for fora a 49 instead of a 50 hour week The empl employers T reserve tb the right t to discharge discharge discharge dis dis- dis- dis charge work workers r without g gUtting giving ving any reason In turn the union reserves the right to strike if the workers are b believed believed be be- to have been wronged Under the terms of at f th the preferential pr ferenti l shop employers are not not- bound by bj rules of a closed shop all ll union tiniOn n but union are are to be given ghen iven pr preference prefer prefer- ence In case of vacancies the union Is to be asked to furnish workers If It they are ore not available nonunion men may then be hired The r registration system m provides that employers shall furnish the union with the n names mes of firms to whom work may b be s sublet bli t. t that they may see that terms of the tit are observed Certain c concessions concessions con con- n- n cessions made mad by the union representatives senta- senta tives were declared to be of a S minor nature Are Out The strike has been in progress since May 1 1 It was preceded by a lockout two days earlier when the c- c cI I learned that the workers were preparing to strike about the middle ol ot I July With the men locked out and i those on strike the local number of ot I workers Involved has been I For some years the manufacturers I and men had been operating under a It protocol that provided for the recognition recognition recognition tion of the union on an nn agreement that there should be no strikeS All 11 Issues issues' being referred to a conciliation committee corn com The preparation to strike In July broke this protocol the employers claimed but the workers declared d the protocol l already h had d been broken by byth bythe bythe th the manufacturers discharging members members members mem mem- bers of the union for no other reason than Imn that they were union men M Mayor Intercedes d s. s Mayor 1 l Mitchel e sought ought to obtain ih arbitration arbitration arbitration arbi arbi- of the issues and President nt Wilson this week on the petition of New ew York Tork business men s 's suggested gg sted in inquiry inquiry inquiry in- in by the departments ts of lab labor an add commerce The manufacturers had steadfastly refused to arbitrate the question of right of the men to strike and the full right of ot the employers ers to discharge any Is winning inning the tha employers employers' ers ers' agreement to arbitration of these points was c con considered considered n- n by the as a let complete j victory for themselves |