Approximately 1,200 members of Cap Makers’ Union Local No. 1 walked out of their factories yesterday morning at 10 o’clock in a strike for better working conditions and higher wages.
The strikers are demanding a fifteen per cent wage increase and equal division of work during both slack and busy periods. These demands were approved by members of the union at a mass meeting yesterday in Beethoven Hall.
Eight hundred members of the cap making industry are still at work, as independent bosses have already capitulated to the demands of the union.
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