The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-28
RICH AND POOR AID.
$4,000 GIRLS WHO
ARE ON STRIKE
Theaters, Moving Picture Shows,
Drug Stores and Other Business
Places Give Their Profits
on Certain Days.
Garment Workers Are Fighting For
More Pay and Better Work
ing Conditions.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2s.-All classes and
kinds of people are fiocking TO the
aid OF the striking workers OF ready
made clotsing. sold both at wholesale
and by mail order TO the entire coun'
try.
All Chicago, from society to the
slums, from church to saloon, Is help
ing them.
Physicians, dentists, BARRIERS and
lawyers have offered the strikers free
service. Actors give benefit perform
ances Theaters, moving picture
shows, drug stores and other business
men give their profits on certain days.
Teachers feed and the clothe the little
tots they see coming to school thlnly
clad and hungry. Collections are
taken up wherever men and women
gather-in workshops as well as WON
ems clubs. The exclusive NO Vote.
No Tax" league, college students,
teachers, ministers, have all helped.
+ Business men OF prominence have
appealed to the police to treat the
strikers more leniently.
Mrs. Frances Squire Potter, one
OF the nations leading suffragists. and
Miss Katherine Conan, the Wellesley
historian, came west to help the strik-
ers. Hotels have universally refused
to house strike breakers. and the man
ufacturers have had to lodge them In
their factories.
Despite the hearty support In these
many ways those in charge at the
Women's Trade Union league head
quarters, No. 275 Lasalle-st.. say there
- "a
general appeal to the country at large.
The citizens strike committee,
which has Investigated conditions In
the families of striking garment work
ers, reported Sunday that 5000 babies
are starving as a result OF the labor
war. The report was made at meet
Ing at Hull house and special
babies milk fund was started at once
by members of the committee.
/. Estimates at the meeting showed 1t
would take at least 500 day to pro-
vide milk for babies in actual want
and the suffering appeared so great
that S1,100 was contributed by mem
bers OF the committee. The fund Is to
be kept distinct from other strikers
funds.
How did II start?
A little Jewish girl led is OF her
fellow workers out on Oct. z. Crushed
under unbearable conditions. the
workers needed but the word TO
strike. They came out OF one shop
after another until $4,000 had quit
work, one third OF them girls and
I'VE work many hours every day"
said q little girl. I'VE get up long
before daylight. We ride on cars
long distance. We get very tired.
Sometimes sick. Then they give us
drops and headache powders that
make US feel very good for while,
then very bad. We do not get drink
OF water when we want IL; we must
have q pass to get 1t. | get about
"a In week. II costs 60 cents for
car fare"
In good" times, the girls were
speeded to the fainting point. They
had to work overtime-at regular pay.
In bad times, they had to sit around
the shop to keep up appearances or
prosperity, and were not paid for IT.
Girls had to thread needles at nome
until midnight, after working all day.
Furemen were instructed to beat down
the wages OF each supplemented
worker 10 the lowest point that work
Or would stand. Some were paid more
than others for the identical work.
Girls were insulted by foremen. and
having NO union. they were defense
less. Girls were fined 20 cents each
Tor running to the window to see the
Masonic parade; as much as IS for
mismatching Q lining; they were not
paid cent for Blasting because they
took more than one stitch at time.
I Afs,, y. wsxss were cut by increasing
their work at the old pay.
! individually helpless. the workers
now stand unjfed In demand that
,<heir union % recognized