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Show MEDIATORS TO SETTLE STRIKE Three Men Appointed by U. S. Department of Labor to Confer Con-fer With Garment Workers MATTER COMPLICATED Orders for Women's Clothes Waiting to Be Filled Country Facing General Strike. New York, Aug. 2. Three mediators mediat-ors appointed by the United States department, de-partment, of labor will confer here today with manufacturers of women's garments and with leaders of the union of their employes in an attempt to end the strike of 45,000 makers of women's clothes, which has been in progress for 14 weeks. If the mediators media-tors fall to bring about an agreement, agree-ment, it Is understood they will start an Investigation of the women's garment gar-ment industry. The strike situation was complicated today by the action of 150 manufacturers manufac-turers of men's clothes, who locked out yesterday 15,000 workers, and who planned to close more shops today, increasing the number of idle garment workers to 30,000. There are reports that the union of workers on men's garments will call a general strike of 60,000 men. This action would bring the total number of strikers on men's and women's garments in this city to 100,000 persons. Fully $100,000,000 in orders for women's clothes are waiting to be filled when the shops reopen. Manufacturers Manu-facturers of men's clothing said that orders for $150,000,000 worth of men's clothing had been placed for the fall season and that orders cannot be filled if the lockout leads to a general strike. |