The strike of the ladies’ garment workers in New York City, proclaimed on Tuesday and said to include 30,000 cloakmakers according to Union statements, continues while a conference to settle the labor dispute was called for Friday afternoon at Albany on the initiative of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, accepted the Governor’s invitation by telegraph, expressing appreciation for the Governor’s interest “in the struggle for more human working conditions of the 30,000 workers in the cloak and suit industry of New York.” The Union is determined to continue picketing in the garment center and not to relax its vigilance “until there is Union victory.”
In a statement issued, the Union asserted that the entire industry is virtually paralyzed, owing to the walkout, and hailed this fact as a sign of the labor organization’s revival following the Communist leadership of the strike in the needle trades in 1926.
Pledges of financial and other support continue to come in at the International headquarters, it was announced.
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