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DRESS STRIKE TALK AS FUR SHOPS CLOSE; Garment Workers Break With Manufacturers, Charging Abrogation of Contract. SEEK NEW AGREEMENTS Union Says General Walk-Out Will Not Be Called, but 22,000 May Be Affected. 12,000 QUIT IN FUR TRADE Demands for Forty-Hour Week and Aid for Unemployment Fund Denied as "Dictatorial."

DRESS STRIKE TALK AS FUR SHOPS CLOSE; Garment Workers Break With Manufacturers, Charging Abrogation of Contract. SEEK NEW AGREEMENTS Union Says General Walk-Out Will Not Be Called, but 22,000 May Be Affected. 12,000 QUIT IN FUR TRADE Demands for Forty-Hour Week and Aid for Unemployment Fund Denied as "Dictatorial."
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Coincident with the strike of 12,000 workers in the fur district, which became effective yesterday, there appeared imminent a strike of much larger proportions in the dress industry. Notification was served upon the Wholesale Dress Association, 110 West Fortieth Street, representing the jobbers in women's dresses, that the dress department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union regarded as abrogated its contract with the Association of Dress Manufacturers of 212 Fifth Avenue. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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