The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
SAYS THAT IS ALL B0SH.
CAPTAIN CULLEN OF THE REPAIR
SHOP NAKED DENIAL.

SHOP NAKED DENIAL.
More Charges Against the Manage
mcnt OF That Branch of Govern
ment tndustry--A Former Employe
Insists ON Their Truth.
Additional abuses In the mailbag re.
pair shop are coming to the surface
every day. 1t is claimed that formerly
the women working in the shop were
provided literally with bottoms and
patches for the bags, whereas at the
present time they are required to darn
holes big enough to put your foot
through.
This morning CRITIC reporter found
q lady who had formerly been employed
in the shop, but who could not come
up to the average of forty bags a day,
and was consequently discharged. She
verifes this charge IN every particular
why, when went to work there they
would send me bags to darn without
patches or without bottoms, and nj
times when some workman would pass
through the room with bundle of
patches there would be a regular STAN
pede among the workers and they
would cry out; Please give me patch
To this demand the only satisfaction
they would receive would be to darn
theirs. This is not the worst feature of
10 though. for there are favorites in the
shop who receive bags with the smaller
holes, while other less fortunate oues
who do not stand in with the floor Ia
dies are required to do the heavy ones,
and If they cannot come up to the forty
average daily, off goes their heads.
WHAT ONE INSPECTOR DID.
What's more than that, the in
spector would frequently take his knife
or a pair Of scissors, if there hap
pened to be a break in the darn,
slash 1t open and return the bag TO the
mender, with patch. met with such
treatment as this, and because ! could
not exceed an average of thirty-six
bags | was discharged. AS for Mr..
Dowdin, can consistently say that he
seemed to he disposed to act justly
with me, but Mr. Bond was not inclined
this way"
CAPTAIN CULLEN DENIAL.
The facts as above given were called
to the attention of Captain Cullen to-
day, and he said that if any such abuses
existed in the shop he was in ignorance
of it. He was very anxious that the
reporter should talk with Mrs. Parker
and Mrs. Hutchins, the floor ladies,
and ascertain from them ii such was
the case.
In accordance with this order the
presence of these ladies was demanded
in the Office. They seemed very indig-
nant when approached on the subject,
and declared most emphatically that
there was no truth whatever in the
statement. They declared that all the
bottoms and patches needed were pro
vided and denied that there was any
favoritism shown.
Captain Cullen volunteered to show
up his books or do anything elsein his
power to demonstrate that the abuses
charged were all bosh.
WORKER WHO INDoRsEs ''TuE CRITIC
Editor critic. The thanks of the commu
nifty are due to you fCa your expose of tht
methods employed in the mail bag repai
shop of Uncle Sam. You failed to mention
the following facts, however, that YER,
often the women get bags to repair tina
have the bottoms torn nearly out of them
Formerly they used to get bottoms to bot
tom them with. Now, however, they hav,
to darn them. Think of it! Darn a hole il
bag large enough to put your foo
through. After the bags leave the hands Q
the women they are sent to the inspector
If the inspector finds a hole as large as
pin in them he will take out his knife, ri
open the whole work and then send the ba
aud bottom back to the worker, with tn
instruction to bottom it,
Your article also states that the worker
are given one month In which to learn ho'
to mend the bags. This is not true, fo
there are several women who formerly wei
employed there who averaged thrty-od
the first month, and at the end of the mont
they had to go, for, as Captain Cullen e9
presses it, they "were in the soup"
Your article also states that Captain Gu
len is not cognizant of the facts rs the
were published. This refute, and say tht
he is cognizant Of them, and that he
fit to be the warden of penitentiar
rather than the superintendent of siXty-fl'
hard-working, American women.
Again expressing to you the thanks of Il
community and wishing THE CRITIC IL
! prosperity that it deserves, am.
VERITAs.
Washington, January 30.