Making Both Ends Meet eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 231 pages of information about Making Both Ends Meet.

Making Both Ends Meet eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 231 pages of information about Making Both Ends Meet.

XIII.  No work shall be given employees to be done at their homes.

XV.  Only members of respective locals above named shall be employed by the firm to do the said work.]

[Footnote 27:  Mr. London for the cloak makers, and Mr. Cohen for the manufacturers.]

[Footnote 28:  Stenographic minutes of the Brandeis conference.]

[Footnote 29:  This decision met with disapproval, not only on the East Side.  The New York Evening Post said:  “Justice Goff’s decision embodies rather strange law and certainly very poor policy.  One need not be a sympathizer with trade-union policy, as it reveals itself to-day, in order to see that the latest injunction, if generally upheld, would seriously cripple such defensive powers as legitimately belong to organized labor.”

And the Times:  “This is the strongest decision ever handed down against labor.”]

[Footnote 30:  These are the clauses of the Marshall agreement on wage scale and hours of labor which affect women workers.  The term “sample makers” includes, of course, sample makers of cloaks.  The week workers among the cloak makers are principally the sample makers.  But the greater proportion of the workers in the cloak factories are piece-workers.  This explains why there is no definite weekly wage schedule listed for cloak workers as such.  Sample makers, $22; sample skirt makers, $22; skirt basters, $14; skirt finishers, $10; buttonhole makers, Class A, a minimum of $1.20 per 100 buttonholes; Class B a minimum of 80 cents per 100 buttonholes.

As to piece-work, the price to be paid is to be agreed upon by a committee of the employees in each shop and their employer.  The chairman of said price committee of the employees shall act as the representative of the employees in their dealings with the employer.

The weekly hours of labor shall consist of 50 hours in 6 working days, to wit, nine hours on all days except the sixth day, which shall consist of five hours only.

No overtime work shall be permitted between the fifteenth day of November and the fifteenth day of January, or during the months of June and July, except upon samples.

No overtime work shall be permitted on Saturdays, except to workers not working on Saturdays, nor on any day or more than two and one-half hours, nor before 8 A.M., nor after 8.30 P.M.

For overtime work all week workers shall receive double the usual pay.]

[Footnote 31:  There has been practically no complaint on the part of the workers or the public concerning the sanitary conditions of the larger houses.  At present the strike settlement has established a joint board of sanitary control, composed of three representatives of the public, Dr. W.J.  Scheffelin, chairman, Miss Wald of the Nurses’ Settlement, and Dr. Henry Moskowitz of the Down-town Ethical Society; two representatives of the workers, Dr. George Price, Medical Sanitary Inspector of the New York Department of Health, 1895-1904, and Mr. Schlesinger, Business Manager of the Vorwaerts; and two representatives of the manufacturers, Mr. Max Meier and Mr. Silver.  The work of this committee will be the enforcement of uniform sanitary conditions in all shops, including the more obscure and smaller establishments.]

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