The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, meeting in quarterly session here under the chairmanship of William Green, unanimously endorsed a program of strikes presented by Benjamin Schlesinger, New York, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.
The strikes which are to be declared on December 1, are principally directed against the elimination of the sweatshop system, which the workers are said to have again encountered recently. Forty-five thousand workers in the dress and waist branches of the garment labor union in New York, Toronto, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Baltimore, Cleveland and other cities, will be affected. Many large mail order houses and department stores are in sympathy with the labor union’s drive against sweat shop production.
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