LAUNDRY STRIKE
END IS BELIEVED
TO BE IN SIGHT
New York, Oct 17 The laundry
workers of New York city, who have
been on strike since Oct. 7, will no
tify the State Board of Arbitration
today what action they have decided
to take on a tentative agreement
reached yesterday at a meeting of
representatives of employers and em
ployes at the Arbitration Board's
headquarters on Fifth avenue.
The agreement is in the nature of
a compromise. According to its terms
the preferential system of employ
ment is recognized by the employes,
a half way measure between the open
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and the closed shop which gives
union men preference over non-union
men in obtaining positions. The
right of collective bargaining is also
recognized in the prospective agree
ment, and all questions fo wages and
working conditions are to be arbi
trated within one week after the
signing of the agreement.
The Laundry Owners' Board of
Trade issued the following statement
rela-tive to the strike last evening:
"The reports published in the af
ternoon papers to the effect that the
end of the laundry strike was in sight
and that the laundry owners had
reached an agreement with the union
has been emphatically denied by the
Laundry Owners' Board of Trade of
New York. E. C. Fentress and S.
