A clothing strike was narrowly averted here when the manufacturers gave in to the union demands for a forty-hour week and a raise in pay. Previously, the work week was forty-four hours.
More than 100 unemployed cloakmakers will benefit by the new agreement, since employers will enlarge their staffs.
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