Definite steps to bring the combination strike and lock-out of 20,000 cloakmakers, members of the New York Cloakmakers’ Union, to a conclusion were taken Sunday when Morris Sigman, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, following a long session of the general executive board of the international at the Hotel Cadillac, named a committee of three to formulate a concrete program to end the struggle. The committee includes three vice-presidents of the international, Max Amdur, Charles Kreindler and Julius Hochman.
Present at yesterday’s board meeting were Louis Hyman, Joseph Boruchowitz and Julius Portnoy, three vice-presidents of the international and the leaders of the local strike. They were ordered by the board to give an accounting of the “tragic, costly and mismanaged strike” and to present their plans for adjusting the lockout of 16,000 cloakmakers by the American Cloak and Suit Manufacturers’ Association, the organization of contractors.
Following their report President Sigman pronounced their plans, which provided for continuance of the struggle as indefinite and impractical. He declared that the “workers have suffered enough under Communist leadership of the strike” and that the time has come for decisive action which will permit the workers to return to their jobs on “terms consonant with the union’s best interests under the circumstances created by the Communists.”
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