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Chicago Cloakmakers Get Five Day Week

June 21, 1928
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(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Cloak makers of Chicago numbering 2000 men and women have won the five-day week, it was announced by Mollie Friedman, organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union.

Through a contract negotiated by Morris Sigman. president of the international union, with the Cloak Manufacturers’ Association, the forty-hour or five-day week was conceded by the employers for the next eighteen months. For the last eighteen months these workers have had a forty-two and one-half hour week.

MAX D. STEUER’S SON MARRIES CATHOLIC

Aaron Steuer son of Max D. Steuer, and Virginia Clark, musical comedy star, were married yesterday in the Church of St. Joan of Are. Jackson Heights, by the Rev. Ward G. Meehan.

Mr. Steuer joined practice with his father in January of this year, at No. 11 Broadway.

When asked by a representative of the Jewish Daily Bulletin. Mr. Steuer stated that he is not embracing the Catholic faith.

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