The Evening World

GARMENT STRIKERS VOTING TO-DAY ON PEACE TERMS

Union Probably Will Ratify Agreement Leaders Accepted and Go Back to Work.

Voting began to-day in the United Garment Workers' Union on the question of adopting or rejecting an agreement the form of which has been adopted as satisfactory by the union's officers on one side and the United Merchants and Manufacturers' Association and the Clothing Contractors' Association on the other.

There are 40,000 members of the United Garment Workers' Union on strike, and it is thought that the vote cannot be completed before the end of the week. Little doubt exists that the agreement will be adopted by the union. Such an adoption will end the strike, which has lasted a month and cost both sides an immense amount of money.

Samuel Elstein, organizer of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, said to-day that about 45,000 of the 65,000 members of that organization who went on strike in sympathy with the United Garment Workers' Union have gone back to work. Most of the 15,000 still out have been employed in shops the owners or managers of which are opposed to recognition of the union. These 15,000 women are now carrying the whole burden of the strike.

A dispatch from Rochester states that every clothing factory in that city shut down indefinitely yesterday. The 15,000 employees of these factories went on strike last Wednesday. The manufacturers say they will not reopen unless they can run their shops free from union interference. Among the clothing manufacturing houses in the Rochester lookout are the Stein, Bloch Company, the Hickey, Freeman Company, L. Adler Brothers & Co., Louis Holz & Sons, the Michaels, Stern Company and the Garson Meyer Company, all national advertisers doing an immense business.