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He did not care to remember that dinner was due in two hours. He turned aimlessly into Wentworth Street, and studied a placard that hung in a bootmaker's window. This was the announcement it made in jargon: Riveters, Clickers, Lasters, Finishers, Wanted. BARUCH EMANUEL, Cobbler. Makes and Repairs Boots. Every Bit as Cheaply as MORDECAI SCHWARTZ, of 12 Goulston Street.
The fourth objection, about which a dispute has occurred between the press-setters and the master finishers in Leeds, refers to the inapplicability of the common system to long lengths. The men object to these on account of the great labor involved in shifting the heavy mass of cloth and press plates to and from the presses.
But the greater proportion of the workers in the cloak factories are piece-workers. This explains why there is no definite weekly wage schedule listed for cloak workers as such. Sample makers, $22; sample skirt makers, $22; skirt basters, $14; skirt finishers, $10; buttonhole makers, Class A, a minimum of $1.20 per 100 buttonholes; Class B a minimum of 80 cents per 100 buttonholes.
Among the women cloak finishers, Rose Halowitch, a delicate little Russian girl of seventeen, a helper in a cloak factory, who gave her account to the Consumers' League, about two years and a half ago received a wage of from $3.50 to $6 a week.
But as compared with cutters, basters, and operators the finishers both before and since the strike had always been paid relatively below their deserts. Wages were lowered, not only by the unstandardized rates prevalent through the sub-subcontracting system, but also by the practice of sending hand-finishing out of the factories and shops to be done at home.
It is true, as above, that in the original dress, as a piece of cloth or drugget, or stuff, comes out of the hand of the maker, it does not show itself as it really is, nor what it should and ought to show: thus far these people are properly called finishers of the manufactures, and their work is not lawful only, but it is a doing justice to the manufacture.
She dressed very quietly and in excellent taste. All day long the two draped dresses on forms—ever pinning and pinning. The drapers turned the dresses over to certain operators, who finished all machine sewing. The next work fell to the finishers. In that same end of the factory sat the four finishers, getting “about twenty dollars a week,” but again no one seemed sure.
The following is a list of the national unions in existence in 1880 with the year of formation: Typographical , Hat Finishers , Iron Molders , Locomotive Engineers , Cigar Makers , Bricklayers and Masons , Silk and Fur Hat Finishers , Railway Conductors , Coopers , German-American Typographia , Locomotive Firemen , Horseshoers , Furniture Workers , Iron and Steel Workers , Granite Cutters , Lake Seamen , Cotton Mill Spinners , New England Boot and Shoe Lasters .
In 1855 the Journeymen Stone Cutters' Association of North America was organized and in the following year the National Trade Association of Hat Finishers, the forerunner of the United Hatters of North America. In 1859 the Iron Molders' Union of North America began its aggressive career.
To me," she thought, "it almost seems insulting to Burdon to call accountants in now; but according to the judge it would be insulting to Burdon not to call them in " She was still puzzling over it when Archey, that stormy petrel of bad news, came in and very soon took her mind from anonymous letters. "The finishers are getting ready to quit," he announced. "They had a vote this noon.
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