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AVERTING STRIKES
AMONG THE TAlL0Rs
Federal Labor Bureau Describes Re.
sHIrs OF Collective Agreements
in Clothing Industry.

corrective agreements in the mems
clothing industry is the title of bull
letin 1913 just issued by the bureau OF
labor statistics. The study is present
ed in two parts, part I being confined
largely to formal account of the eX-
periencc Of Hart Schaffner & Mars
and their $500 employees in developins
| working scheme OF peaceful negotia-
lion which constitutes a, complete sys-
lem Of mediation and arbitration thru
which hundreds Of differences have
been settled, while part II gives
agreements Of labor unions with asso-
Citations Of manufacturers and indi-
vidnal employers.
Between April 1, 1912. and June i
1914, 1,401 complaints arising between
the employees Of Hart. Schaffner e.
Marx and the company were adjusted
OF these complaints, LIS, or 81 per
cent, were adjusted thru mediation by
deputies; 206. or AT per cent, were
referred by the deputies to the trade
hoard, which is the original tribunal.
for arbitration and final adjustment
by it; II, or IL per cent, were referr-
ed for final adjudication to the
board Of arbitration or to its chair
man. Under the labor agreements Of
| the company every sort of grievance
has been remedied without any inter
Eruption to the company's business;
every sort of wage adjustment has
been made; and wide differences Of
opinion have been reconciled These
differences of opinion have arisen as
lo % -
right to discharge union employees,
and Of it's right to employ nonunion
Workmen; as regards the distribution
of work and the maintenance OF its
roll Of permanent employees during
slack season; and multitude of small
questions of policy. Under these
agreements due process of law has
been substituted for the arbitrary and
irresponsible rule of the foreman in
the adjustment of all differences and
with the institution of this due pro-
cess of law there has developed
among the workers feeling of secur-
ity under the law in place of feel
ing, formerly prevalent among them,
Of uncertainty, of fear, and of abso-
lutte helplessness. The plan has
commended itself both to the COM
pany and to the employees as benefit
cial and profitable.
The collective agreements described
in part IT of the report prescribes the
conditions of employment for ap-
proximately 10000 workers in New
York City and elsewhere. Six OF the
agreements were made with the Unit
ed Garment Workers Of America;
four of them provide for complete
open shop; one provides for prefer
entail union shop; one for partial rec
ognition without preference. Radical
changes affecting the conditions OF
employment such as the institution OF
systems of mediation for the adludl-
cation of disputes, official recognition
of the union, reduction of working
hours, and increase in wages were
effected under the provisions OF those
agreements.
The report includes an account OF
the strike of 1912 in the fur industry
and the resulting agreement, the gen
eral strike and the agreement IN the
mems clothing industry in Boston and
Rochester in 1918, and tabular anal
ysis of collective agreements in the
mems clothing industry as described
in the report.