The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-10-03
TENEMENTs AND CIGAis.


WE trust that no cigsrmaker in the
| United, States, unionist OF nou-uni, INST, will
tail TO read, ponder over ana act upon the
article published in this week sA1vocATE,
taken from the columns II the New York
Sun, exposing the system adopted by many
heartless employers, manufacturing cigars
IN the tenements NJ that city, and the evil
consequences thereof or tho ealth and
lives ~ those Who are compelled TO submit
20 such demands. We sly every cigar
maker has a direct interest in crushing
! this system in its infancy. because. while
II IS fortunately true, it's operations - tar
| have been. manly confined "a the cltN 81
New York. it is equally true il y my
question " few months VIII thy VIII
| tie experienced IN every cit" :" '"' ''
unless thc stronc arm the la" or pub
HI opinion etfectualiy F,rsids their confirm
anc,. The facts dty'toped by the lnvestI-
cation " the Boar,Yof Health, are nthem-
,.r,r, sutfcienth put st"pt" this infsm-
wv, system yhich is running the hea'h "t
,i.,s.,d. II families, and whose only re-
/. .,..,.,..,. aaron. is hat the employer can
,,..r..,s. N, annual profits $40 or $500 on
.,rb y. his p.is,uri-breathng workers.
n, mass meeting recent held IN New
York.. y, consider the qucst3g an opinion
hy ~ SrcrIu. Vas read, stating the fact
that experience, proves tina the dust and
rNhaIat,ons ~ tobacco prouce various dis
eases among which are consumption and
dyspepsia and that anon children living
Ira such tenemtuts il is specially murder
Gus. particularly when bth parents and
children are compelled tWork from four
tceu tu sixteen hours a ay. The doctor
| referred tn the laws rep ring that persons
! suffering from contagiou or infectious dis
eases shall be remove e. hospitals, AID
/ said thar 1t Is the plainiuty Of the Board
\ ,f Health % iuvestiga' this subject and
take steps for the alignment nj the mus
ancy
a
York. prohibit chIldn under the age Of
ten years W. aye f,m being employed
IN factory labor. yett u well known that
under this tenemenfactory system chill
dren three and fout years Of age are used
I, strip tobacco, brd are compelled to
RI from SIX h nine hours per day.
Is 10 any uondt then, that the public
Journals record IN frighttul mortality Of
- Ter cent 81 th-e horn III the tenement
factories. while srh state Of affairs are
permitted 60 eN.s
The rolloain -esolutions were unanl-
uiously sdoptedat the meeting referred
to
WHEREAS. Ii has become the custom Of
many cigar manufacturers II this city to rent
tenement hou| fill them with families Of
! cigarmakers aI carry on the trade Of cigar
making thereinI and
! WHEREAS, Tese houses are used 20 serve
ae a work sholta kitchen, a packing, sleep
ing, and dweAg room, without an oppor-
| tunity to Imnfythe locality from the odor Of
moist tobacco Z the evaporation Of an over
! TILED habitatid ami
WHEREAS. has been proven by ply sici.
ans and committee Of investigation that
small poX aud otirr contagious diseases have
infested somebf he houses and
WHEREAS. ih,neIghboI hood and the city
are threatened W disease, and are IN con
slant danger thesot as long as these poison
breeding shops g. permitted to exist and
WHEREAS. III consumers f these articles,
when made by Horkmen So affected, are like
wise threatene with infection and their
health eudangded IN an alarming way; there
iore be it
Pssoired, Tat i j. the sacred and bounden
duty Of the Board Of Health to remove all
shops ii thiskInd because the board has been
created sokk to protect the inhabitants OF
I the city IN tfir health and to abolish ali snch
evils spreH disease and mortality.
Resotr,d, That the Chairman Of tins meet
ting, aud TIT President Of the Cigarmakers
Union in connection with committee are
hereby empowered TO call upon the Board Of
Health, am ask strict enforcement at All laws
and regulations applicable to this business
enacted by the authorities for the protection
and safety Of the health Of the city.
We assure our friends in New York,
WHO are SO nobly lighting tins iniquIty, that
that they have the sympathy Of their fell
low craftsmen throughout the county, and
that We earnestly bid them God-speed.