Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Employers, dreading idle needles in the boom season, tried to avert the strike, failed for lack of organization. Workers complained chiefly of "sweatshops" where girls worked as much as 60 hours per week for as little...
Such a composite picture of salesgirls in limited-price chain stores could be drawn from facts and figures presented last week by Miss Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon of the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. Miss Pidgeon had made a study of women in 5 & 10 cent stores in 18 states, had interviewed over 6,000 clerks to assemble her data...
Miss Pidgeon found that the average median* wage of girls surveyed was $12 per week. Only 7% earned as high as $18 per week, while 25% earned less than $10. Chain-store girls earn about one-half of what women do in other industries. One girl out of four was under 18, only a very few over 25. Only one girl out of ten lived away from home on her earnings...
...about New York City, where 45,000 people, two-thirds of them women, each year manufacture $634,000,000 worth. In midwinter dressmakers are busiest, preparing for the Easter trade. This year they are especially busy because of major style changes in women's wear. Last week, at the busiest time, 35,000 New York dressmakers went on strike...
Demands of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: abolition of 1,500 "sweatshops"; 10% wage increase; a 40-hour, five-day week; an impartial commission to settle disputes; unemployment insurance. Well heeled was the Union for this walkout; last summer it sold $250,000 worth of 5% strike bonds...