The date when 18,000 workers of the knitted goods industry will walk out of their factories will be determined Monday at a special meeting of the strike committee of the joint council of the Knitted Goods Workers’ Union, branch of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, at the Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second avenue.
The committee headed by Salvatore Ninfo, will act to call a strike in the entire industry upon the motion of the union members who voted last Tuesday to walk out by the count of 4,792 to 259. Similar polls were held in Philadelphia, Cleveland, St. Louis and San Francisco.
The strike will have a drastic effect on the knitted goods industry and neighboring groups unless a quick settlement is effected. The union is demanding a ten to twenty per cent increase in wages, according to the classification of the workers, and a reduction in hours from thirty-seven and one-half to thirty-five weekly.
PAINTERS MEET TUESDAY
Meanwhile representatives of the Brotherhood of Painters, Paper-hangers and Decorators District Council No. 9, and of the Association of Master Painters and Decorators are preparing to meet in the office of Ben Golden, executive secretary of the Regional Labor Board, Tuesday afternoon to present their respective demands.
Golden expressed himself on Friday as hopeful that an amicable agreement between the two warring factions will be reached.
At union headquarters, 244 West Fourteenth street, preparations were under way for a demonstration on Tuesday by its 12,000 members, who plan to march through the streets of the financial, business and residential sections of the city. This constitutes part of a campaign to bring the striking painters’ grievances before the public.
It was also disclosed by union officials that independent employers are continuing to settle with the union on the latter’s terms, which demanded nine dollars for a seven-hour day. The Association of Master Painters and Decorators is offering eight dollars for an eight-hour day. The Association distributed circulars among union men, stating its conditions and asking the men to return to work. The circular served only to intensify the feeling between the two factions, union officials declared.
Union leaders were gratified with Golden’s announcement that he was disappointed by the action of the Association in disregarding its promise to negotiate with the union with regard to collective bargaining.
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