The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-20
CLOAKMAKERS
Get INCREASE
ArbitratOTs Recommend Wage
Raise Of 10 Per Cent.
AGREEMENT RUNS TWO YEARS

Both Employers and Workers Satisfied.
Trial Board of Three to Adjust Future
Disputes--No Employee Is to Be Dis
crimnated Against Because of Union
Activities.
The council of conciliation appointed
by Mayor Mitchell of New York to
bring about peace between the Cloak,
Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Protec-
tive association and the International
Ladies' Garment Workers union and
the joint board of the Cloak and Skirt
Makers union, has finished its labors
and made public its report. The recon-
mendations must be accepted by both
sides in order to make them effective
as working agreement, but counsel
for both sides declared the findings
were satisfactory. The workers get an
increase in wages of approximately
10 per cent. About 10000 clothing
workers are involved.
The council finds that an employer
must be free to select his employees
and as free to discharge those who are
Incompetent, insubordinate or unfaith-
full. He has the right to assign work
and reorganize his shop. He must,
however, in slack times distribute work
equally as far as possible. 1t is pro-
vided that no employee shall be dis
criminated against or discharged be-
cause of union activities.
The need of tribunal is pointed out.
The council proposes that an agreement
be entered into between employers and
employees so that there can be organ
lied a trial board of three-one en-
ployer, one employee and an impartial
person-before whom all cases would
| be heard.
las a temporary arrangement until
| maturer study of the industry shall
| lead to a final adjustment" the report
| continues, 1.-The standard observed for
| piece workers in fixing piece work rates
shall be at the rate of 20 cents an hour
| for each hour of continuous work for
| operators and 90 cents an hour fol
continuous work for finishers, taking
| the order of average skill as the basis
| of computation and making no allow.
ance for idleness"
| Piece prices are to be settled between
the employer and a price committee
Skirt finishers will get $11 week pro
vided each department be permitted tt
| have learner and six finiShers.
Wages for week workers shall be
For cutters, $3.50; for skirt cutters
| $23.50; for jacket upper pressers, $50
skirt upper pressers, $23; skirt under
pressers, SIS; jacket under pressers
| $21; sample tailors, S23; skirt basters
| SIS; part pressers, $3.50; canvas cut
tersI $13.
Piece prices for buttonhole makers
Glass A, $1.30 per hundred buttonholes
| Glass B, 90 cents per hundred.
| Questions as to pieceworkers' over
time and what legal holidays shall bt
observed are to be arbitrated. 1t Is
| agreed there will be no strike during
the term of the agreement and tha
| the council will create joint board oi
| supervision and enforcement of stand
/ ards. The agreement is to continu,
| two years.
! At the request of Mayor Mitchell tht
council will continue as commission
to investigate thoroughly the funda
mental problems of the trade. On tn,
| basis of this investigation the council
will submit in the near future a con
structive policy to both organizations.
The board of conciliators was com
| posed of the following: Dr. Felix AID
Ter, Louis d. Brandeis, Henry G
Bruere, city chamberlain; George w
Kirchwey, former dean of Columbi,
law school; Walter c. Noyes, forme
judge United States circuit court o
appeals, and Charles L. Bernheimer.