About 30,000 workers had joined the dressmakers’ strike in New York at the end of the second day of the strike on Wednesday, according to a report issued from the strike headquarters of the union, which declared that the strike has virtually put a halt to the dress industry in this city. It is expected, however, that the strike will not be of long duration.
At a meeting of the General Strike Committee Wednesday evening in Webster Hall, Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, expressed the hope that Friday’s conference with Governor Roosevelt in Albany will lead to the establishment of an impartial tribunal in the dress industry similar to the one which was created last summer in the cloak and suit industry at the instance of Lieutenant Governor Herbert H. Lehman. The meeting unanimously accepted Governor Roosevelt’s proposal to participate in the conference.
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