After two days of negotiations between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union and the Manufacturers Association, the strike of the 4,000 tailors was amicably settled. Both sides signed an agreement, containing twenty clauses, the most important of which deal with higher wages and overtime.
Wages are to be increased twenty per cent. Final details are to be worked out by an arbitration committee, of which Mr. Nathan Gordon is impartial chairman.
The negotiations for the union were carried on by Joseph Schlossberg, secretary, treasurer, Hyman Bloomberg, first vice-president, and E. Rabkin, organizer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union of America. The spokesman of the Manufacturers’ Association was Horace Cohen.
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union has declared a war to the finish against small independent manufacturers who have greatly contributed to sweatshop conditions in the industry.
Commenting on the situation, Bernard Shane, union organizer in Montreal, stated: — “There are such concerns whose existence we have never even suspected. Bedrooms, sitting rooms in houses everywhere, with one or two persons employed at starvation wages and incredibly long hours—it is against these real ‘sweatshops’ that our activities are now con###ntrating.”
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