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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. Transcript and exhibits, 1899.
Collection Number:
5096
Creator:
New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration.
Quantity:
0.3 linear foot.
Forms of Material:
Transcript.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
Abstract:
Transcript of hearing before the New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration concerning Smith, Gray & Co., Brooklyn,
New York and the employees of Smith, Gray & Co. represented by the Amalgamated Association of Clothing Cutters and Trimmers
and Garment Workers of America.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Transcript of hearing before the New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration concerning Smith, Gray & Co., Brooklyn,
New York and the employees of Smith, Gray & Co. represented by the Amalgamated Association of Clothing Cutters and Trimmers
and Garment Workers of America.
The Board began its investigation on February 27, 1899 as a result of an anonymous letter which it received. The company had
discharged two foremen - one with twenty, the other with fifteen years' service - and hired a new man. Mr. McLaughlin immediately
introduced price cuts and began treating the man in a very abusive manner with the results that the men walked out. Several
other unions in New York boycotted the products of the company when it replaced the strikers with non-union men.
SUBJECTS
Names:
New York State. Board of Mediation and Arbitration.
Smith, Gray, and Company.
Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry - New York (State)
Labor unions - Clothing workers - New York (State)
Clothing workers - New York (State)
Unfair labor practices - New York (State)
Employees, Dismissal of - New York (State)
Arbitration, Industrial - New York (State)