The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-20
FURTHER BOOST IN PRICE OF MEMS
AND WOMEN'S APPAREL EXPECTED

ers $500
Skirt Pressers ........ $500
Skirt and Dress Finishers 49,. $500
Jacket, Cloak and Refer Ex-
aminerS Sz.Uu
Skirt and Dress Begraders and
Examiners ............... oo.uo
Skirt and Dress Bushelers. 1000
Cloak Bushelers ............ 22.O0
These are to be the Minimum wages
remember, for A hour week, and
are to be paid in cash every Saturday
noon, at which time the wheels all
stop.
Taking the above figures into con-
sideration and the large earnings
sometimes made by piece workers. the
following paragraph is of interest:
1.-The employer agrees not to reduce
the wages OF any of the workers in
his employ receiving above the stipu-
lated minimum wage, and that in
creases obtained are to continue in
force for all time of life of this agree
ment" Also this clause is important:
THE employer agrees to recognize
| the claim of any of the workers in
his employ, made through the union,
| for an increase of wages above the
minimum scale herein, such claim for
! increase to be based on the compe-
tency and efficiency of the worker in
question" And further-a Schedule
of prices covering the wages for every
individual employed in this factory
shall be attached and considered a
part of this agreement" And more
| than this, the employer is to deposit
the full amount of cash as per that
schedule, covering his payroll for one
week, in the hands of the union heads.
| Just what the union will do with
this money, in case of the employers
failure to comply with the rules of the
union, we do not know. But there is
no provision for the return Of this
money, whatsoever, in the draft of the
agreement before US. He may consider
1t permanent investment or donation
to the strike fund. There is however,
a provision that in the event of any
violation of agreement by the en-
ployer, the union is to retain the en-
tire sum, not as a penalty but as liz
Undated damages-"It being impossi
BILE to ascertain the exact damage the
union will suffer in the event of such
q breech.'
According to the reports of the New
|
York needle-workers have been re
industry in the United States
Does that explain anything relating
to the cost of Ready to Wear lines
1t may, If carefully thought out, ant
when we consider that wages are als(
high in weaving and textile plant!
Of all kinds, compared with pre-wal
/,
not exist on former wages in thes'
late strenuous years. But one may
reasonably suppose that the time TO
halt has finally come, and that i
we may not yet expect decline il
the cost of dressing, that there is, II
this land of productive plenty, no fur
Their reason for advances.
An international Union.
y The style of the striking organiza
ton is International Ladies' Carmen
Workers Union" and this is subdivid
ed into various local bodies depending
on the line of manufacture. Many o
them can speak and read English AM
a number are doubtless citizens, prob
ably indeed very large per cent o
the men, for the men are very largel,
employed on all the tailored lines,
such as cloaks and cloth suits.
The American Cloak and Suit Re
view, great monthly, in it's May mum
Der quotes statement by the pres
! dent of the international as follows:
, when the fall season opens we vii
either have week work, and 44-hou
week, or a general strike, such a
, has never been seen in the entire in
: dustry before, including, possibly, tn
, cloak makers of the entire country.
. This was in speech made before