A Big Picket Demonstration Today of the Striking Dressmakers
Daily Jewish Courier, Mar. 3, 1924
Morris Zigman, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, will arrive in Chicago today to help lead the strike of the dressmakers. Both sides [manufacturers and strikers] declared that they would fight to the end.
Leo S. Lebowsky, attorney for the manufacturers, declared yesterday that work is going on as usual in many places and that many union workers are returning to work.
Union headquarters announced that on Saturday, fifteen of the largest manufacturers settled with the union, and agreed to all the union demands.
Seven girl pickets were arrested on Saturday on South Market Street and Adams Street. The arrested are: Charlotte Malinowsky, Eleanor Soglowsky, Vera Dobrow, Bessie Koglin, Sophia Martin, Yetta Kessler, and Minnie Sefarinin. The charge 2against the girls was disorderly conduct. Judge Trude freed them under four hundred dollars bonds each.
The twenty girls, who were arrested Friday evening, were also freed under four hundred dollars bonds each.
Fannie Bot, 2040 Humboldt Boulevard, was seriously beaten up Saturday afternoon by a group of strikers, when she entered a car.
Martha Geist, a picket, complained that the police treat the strikers brutally and arrest pickets without any cause.
Meyer Perlstein, leader of the strike, speaking yesterday before the American Federation of Labor, declared that the manufacturers are using a band of sluggers to break the strike.
Lebowsky, the representative of the manufacturers, denied Perlstein's accusation.
3A big picket demonstration of the striking dressmakers has been arranged for this morning.
