The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-06-18
LIGHT SWEET SHOPS
a DAYS: TOUR oF !" cLEReY,mEN
u. i AND GARMENT WORKERS.
Bread in: Filthy Bakeries-The Horrible
I SANITARY Conditions Discovered by
+ tho Investigators Will Be- Laid Be-
fore the Factory Inspector.

PHILADELPHIA: June .16.-Repres->
entatives Of the Church association
for the advancement Of the interests of
Labor and of the United Garment
Workers. of America, made an inspec-
ton recently of clothing and baking
shops where unsanitary conditions are
alleged to exist: The result of these
Investigations will be brought to the
notice Of the factory inspector, with
the request that some action be taken
The two ministers representing the
Church association will make a report
to that body, which is planning a cam
paign against shops of this kind.
The ministers present were Rev. J.
Poyntz Tyler, rector of the Protestant
Episcopal church Of the Advent, York
avenue and Buttonwood street, and
Rev. A. ]. Arkin, rector of st. Georges
Protestant Episcopal church, Venango
and Richmond streets. The represent
tativess of the Garment Workers were
Edward Hopkins, business agent: Of the
Clothing and Cutters Union, and
Charles K. Lipshutz, representative Of
the National Board of the United Car
ment Workers:
Some Horrible Conditions.
Shops from Pine street to Christian
and from Second street to Ninth were
visited. At one place near Fourth and
Fitzwater streets, sixteen shops on
four floors were found in one building.
All were poorly ventilated, the work.
ers, men and women, were crowded
and filth was everywhere. In one Of
the shops in this building, room 20
by 30 feet, permit had been given
by the factory inspector for IS persons
to work. The employees in this shop
refused to tell for whom they were
working, but the permit was in the
name of Davis & Dublin. At a shop on
Lombard street, near Sixth, in a room
not more than IL by IS feet, clothes
were piled promiscuously on the floor
and a baby carriage stood in the middle
Of the place. A baby had been hastily
taken from it as the inspectors enter
ed, and in the bottom of the carriage
were several pairs of new trousers,
which had been used as bedding. There
was one window in the room and it
was tightly closed. Five sewing ma
chimes showed the number of en-
plOyeS OH 1ndtl1Il0 "Ofh, DoSIuGS LuOS6
who finished the garments. Clothes
were made here and sold to the high
est bidder.
At the conclusion of the inspection
Revs. Tyler and Arkin made the fol-
lowing statement: 1.-THE conditions
found in some instances were most
deplorable. In factories where the
work is done under the immediate eye
of the employer, and where the factory
is regularly built and maintained by
them according to law, the conditions
were excellent. In a"other instances
most wretched conditions prevailed.
In one place. Fourth land Fttzwater
streets, there were fddr contractors on
each 81 the four fB66r s Ne The: interior
Of the house was Entirely inadequate
and the sanitary cohditions were ter
rible. Each Of these, contractors had
permit from the inspector of factories
for at least three times the number. of
workers which should be allowed in
the rooms, even had sanitary condi-
tons prevailed. Most Of the clothing is
made in private houses under condi-