Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-10

HAnu@ OF VIE dcns, and the danger 10 He
somewhat decreased in every part Of the city.
AZ 50 Orchard ssrecs. Now York, arr tho
headquarters Of tho Operators and Cloak
makers Union No. 1, Of Now YORK. Thls
Organization 10 lighting sweat shora and Mn.
Joseph narondcss Is its most prominent
member. II willhc remembered that In act
Ting strike this man REQUIRED tho en-.
ploycre % Ray 500 for tho benefit Of the
Union, for which hc Nals prosecuted. convict.
I'll and scnicnced 70 tho renitcntlary. A stay
was sranicd and he went 70 Boston. Tue
Court OF ApreAls rcaiirmcd tho decision bs
majority vote. tho minority holdinr that no
crime had becn committed, aud Mr.. baron.
dess, 70 the SURPRISE of his prosecutors. No.
turned to Now York and rayo himself IN.
After serving portion OF HE sentence 30
was rardoncd by Governor Flower. on the
ground that he did not know he was h,oak.
ing the law 10 demanding tho money aud that
no had no criminal intent, Mr.. Doiondeas is
an absS, rafncst-lockins, handsome man. that
no one would take Tor a criminal, and no has
probably done moie than any other man Ia
tho United States to bring public opinion 20
bear against the sweating systcm. ilut there
"a a sweat shop IN the very house where his
Union has It's headquarters and where they
publish IN Hebrew the ti,ion 2eihssg, and Ia
this very sweat shop In tho early DAYS OF thia
month It was found that they had tho
measles.
Smallpox was epidemic in ilrooklyn In
March. April and May. The scare was 10 great
hat thn beard OK Health sent doctors viii,
guards q policemen said hy the papers TO he
hltttl "a
teaemont house districts. They would SIR.
round a block, and leaving some on g0ard
enter the houses, forcing tho doors that worc
not opened TO them and subduing with clubs
those who strenuously resisted vaccination
carrying ON the mid as late "a two o'clock in
tho morning. Many died OF smallpox, aud
u is a literal and proven iact that morn than
one died OF vaccination by force. Il must
have been a serious emergency that Justified
the measures taken to stamp uut the disease
but. after all, those measures wero not
thorough tho doctors did not go through all
the slums, much loss nll tho tenement house
dlstricis, and Il IA quite s0ir 70 say that there
was many casa Of tho disease Ia mild
form that escaped altogether tho notice Of
the doctors, The disease was especially rife
ln tho Eastern District the scat OF the cloth.
ing industry 80 Brooklyn. How many gar
ment injected with smallpox has boon
packed up there and sent out 10 scatter
germs Of this disease elsewhere no one can
toll, but that ihoro Ii an element Of danger In
the case, any one must know. And, ll danger
la this ease, why not moro or less danger Of
some disease from every garment malle In
eeoh yilc den % sweat shop In New York.
q danger, too scattered North, South East
and West, whore, In the United States, tho
ready-made clothing trade OF Now York eN-
tends. Aud tho little noted spitint OF con.
sumptlyu workors on the dirty nn0rl Dried
up IN tho haatod room, tho invisible baccilll
borne Ia tho air to the garments IN procoss
OF manufacture. and carried In them taraway
TO decrease the chances fife OF some delicate
person with no idea Of the risk involved with
his necessary ecouumiosi Surely Va tho
aggregate The risks from tho infected gar
monts must 30 moro serious evils thnn tho
snd and ~ artencd lives Of the workers. or
the Infections and contagious spread In the
manufacturing city And Il tho city Of
Brooklyn wns justified In its drastic mode OF
stamping ONT smallpox, or oven u II WIS
not Justified IN going 40 far, ersnoi We Iusti-
neu IA u0ihs hoinNlhlhEt not ohlN through
public opinion, but by tho action Of thelaw. to
mitigate tho evils OF the sweat shops OF Now
York,
Boston Ia not paradise for clothing
workers. hut sweat shops Of the Now York
kind are there unknown, They have a law
against sweat shops In Massachusetts,, aud
although II h not so thorough ~ that Of Now
York tho authorities have habit Of enforcing
IL.
Tho New York law proviiea that no room
compartment in any tenement house iu-
habted "a a dwelling or part Of dwelling
shall be used a. a clothing factory. uxcopt
that the husband. vile and childron CON.
prislng ono faulty there living. may manu-
iaoiure clothing. la tho excepted casc tho
place shall hs deemed workshop and it and
tho artlgleB thera worked upon shan BIO sub
lcGt 70 inspection by the Board Of Health or
special inspecting officers. who must be not.
nol by the tenant whoneyor no thus appip-
priutes his dwelling 70 manufacturing pur-
posea. Tho Inspectors may require healthy |
conditions, and thoy may destroy. Il mood b..
Infected clothing. These prov Qua VI the !