A strike of 45,000 New York dressmakers who are affiliated with the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union may be called before the end of January. A meeting of union and jobbers’ representatives Thursday afternoon in the offices of the Wholesale Dress Manufacturers’ Association discussed the situation in the dress industry.
The dressmakers demand an increase in wages of $5 a week. Another demand is for a standard forty hour week in place of the present unlimited rate of work, which reduces employment to thirty hours or less in slack seasons and increases it to fifty hours or more in rush seasons. A third demand is for a permanent, impartial chairman to act as a go-between between workers and employers.
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