Corner-stone laying ceremonies for the Tri-Cities Jewish Community Center were held in Madison, Ill. The speakers were Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman of St. Louis and Mayor Garasche of Madison.
Eighteen hundred cloakmakers, 90 per cent of them Jews, employed in fifty-five factories here walked out on a strike today.
The strikers demand the introduction of the forty-hour week and the right of the workers to select the Price Committees.
The strike was ordered by a vote of 1,057 to 63.
The manufacturers, the majority of them Jews, refused to confer with Union leaders before the strike action was taken.
Corner-stone laying ceremonies for the Tri-Cities Jewish Community Center were held in Madison, Ill. The speakers were Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman of St. Louis and Mayor Garasche of Madison.
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