Twenty thousand members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America will strike today in support of a decision adopted by a meeting arranged to discuss a “stoppage.”
The strike is declared in order that “the industry may be reorganized and conditions improved for the workers and in order to remedy deplorable sweat shop conditions that have come into existence in the industry since the depression.”
A large percentage of the membership of the Union is Jewish.
Seventy percent of the employers in the trade, the majority of them contractors, will be affected by the strike, according to Sidney Hillman, president of the Union.
An affiliate organization in Philadelphia has promised not to handle work from New York territory.
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