The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-27
UnsanItary Working Places Are tho
Breeding Places for Disease and
Prove a Menace to the
Country.
CONGRESS INTERESTED
Resolution by Socialist Berger Pro-
vldes for Committee OF Seven
to Look Into Gar
msnt Strike.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. N.-Probe OF
the economic conditions that produced
the New York garment workers strike
was demanded OF the house, In q res
olution introduced today by Represen-
tative Victor l.. Berger, the Wiscon-
sin socialist. Appointment OF q spe-
cial committee of seven members to
ascertain whether the public health
is not endangered by reported unsan-
itary work shops where clothes later
shipped In interstate commerce are
made, was requested.
The resolution was based on q
mass OF evidence including affidavits
from the strikers, which Berger has
collected 1t was referred to the
rules committee, which will probably
grant Berger hearing at an early
date, to submit his Evidence showing
the necessity for such an investiga-
| tion.
The resolution recites:
Whereas, the New York clothing
industry, which through the channels
OF interstate commerce supplies the
trade of large section of the United
/ States, is now suffering from a strike
4 which directly involves about 100000
workers and their families, and,
4 Whereas, 1t is generally charged
In the public press and mass meet
the garment workers in Nsw ycrE
are so low tina. healthy surroundings
and decent standard OF living have
become almost impossible for them,
and,
/ Whereas, 1t is further charged that
vice and crime are bred of the need
less misery coincident to the manu-
facture of the nations clothing, and
4 further that said manufacture is car
rled on in filthy and unsaaitary places
saturated with the germs Of consump-
ton, smallpox, scarlet fever and 9TH
er contagious diseases, and,
Whereas. garments made under
!. such conditions, when sold through
interstate traffic to the people OF the
United States, undeniably become
serious menace and danger to the
welfare and health of all; therefore
be It,
Resolved, that committee OF
seven members be appointed to In
Iquire into the general conditions OF
) the clothing and garment industry in
8 New York, and to Investigate the
facts relating to this strike, said COM
mittee to report i.s findings as soon
as practicable to this house"
y Boaton Strike.
: BOSTON, Jan. 27--Fifteen thous-
9 and international ladies' garment
v workers and Ave thousand United Car
s ment Workers will strike In Greater
Boston within week unless de-
! mands for increased wages and better
y working conditions similar to those
s. made to New York manufacturers are
j. granted The former organization
o presented It's demands today. The
s United Garment Workers decided to
present no demands, but to strike,
a showing their strength and then make
y demands, provided a vote which win
g be taken Thursday shows majority
= in favor OF such action.
]. Back to Work.
r NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-A majority
8 Of the striking garment workers were
q expected to return to work probab-
X ly tomorrow, as result of the tenta.
v tive agreement reached by the manu-.
q facturers, contractors and union lead
IS ers at recent conferences Increases
e in wages and shorter hours were