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WHAT WOMEN STRIKERS WON
(Miriam Firin Scott in The Outlook.)
Any day last winter, from early morn
ing till late at night, in rain or snow
or sleet, in the district west of Fifth
Avenue and south of Thirty-third
street, in New York, you could have
seen hundreds of thin, pale-faced, ill
clad girls marching like sentinels up
and down the sidewalk in front of cer
tain doorways. And every day, had
you watched, you could huve seen
scores of these half -starved girls beaten
up by thugs and policemen, arrested,
fined by magistrates, and even sent to
the workhouse. These young girls, ever
marching to and fro if they stopped
they were liable to arrest were the
pickets of the Ladies' Waist -Makers
Union, which was a strike forty thou
sand strong the biggest strike of wo
men this country has known. The
contest was a bitter one; the odds seem
ed aJl against the girls. But, despite
the menace and brutality of the police,
despite cold and hunger, you would not
have seen the number of these young
sentinels decrease. Some fell out, but
there were volunteers in plenty to take
their places; and for a hundred days
this desperate marching to and fro
went on unbroken.
Had you stood on Fifth Avenue in
this same region on May Day, the in
ternational holiday of workers, you
would have seen a strangely different
procession. Past you there would have
tramped, as part of the May Day
Parade, an army of girls uniformed in
white shirt-waists and red neckties an
army three miles long. These were the
girls who had desperately paced this
same neighborhood half starved only
a few months before; but now, as they
marched, they sang the workers' "Mar
seillaise," and on thousands of faces
was the look of victory, for they had
won their striks.
This contest is an equitome of what
these girl strikers have achieved. To
show more definitely the extent and full
significance of their victory it will be
necessary to recall briefly the working
conditions that existed prior to the
strike, and also to recall the girl's
equipment for a struggle. "While in
many shops the conditions were good,
in the majority the girls worked ami'd
most pernicious sanitary surroundings;
they were the victims of a system of
fines (for being late or damaging goods)
that were vastly ' disproportionate to
any loss suffered by the employer; there
was in existence a subcontracting sys
tem which enabled the employer to pay
as low as two dollars a week of sixty
hours; they worked ten, twelve, and
even more hours a day; in the busy
season they did not get even one day's
rest a week; and at the best the ma
jority of these girls could count on
nothing better than a four month's
season of tense overwork, and eight
months in which they would be more
or less idle. As to the preparedness of
these girls for a great strike, perhaps
I can suggest that by saying that when
I went to the office of the union a few
days before the strike was called, I
found that the headquarters of the
Ladies' WaistMakers Union of New
York was a corner, mere "deskroom, "
in one very small office, and that the
general organizer, scretary, trasurer,
and walking delegate were all combined
in one not very large man. This hard
working Pooh-Bah informed me that his
union had an irregular, unenthusiastic
membership of about eight hundred,
scattered throughout Greater New York,
that ninety per cent were of foreign
birth, more than half did not speak
English, and that practically none of
them had any knowledge or experience
in union organization. Such was the
fighting condition of the union when the
long struggle with the four hundred
manufacturers began.
With the struggle that followed, with
the girls' sacrifice, suffering, and heroic
spirit, I have already acquainted the
readers of The Outlook in a previous
article. Though the union was so weak,
the girls were ripe for revolt and un
yielding revolt and for fourteen weeks
amid the greatest hardships, they car
ried on the fight, and at length carried
it on to complete victory. At the time
the strike was declared off, 354 employ
ers had signed the union's contract, and
with a very few exceptions all had
agreed to a closed shop, to a fifty-two-hour
week, to a raise of wages from
twelve to fifteen per cent, to do away
with the sub-contracting system and
many other abuses, to limit night-work
to two hours per day and not more
than twice a week, to pay week-workers
for legal holidays, and in the slack sea
son to divide the work among all work
ers, instead of giving it to a favored
few.
Important as are the direct economic
results of the victory, there is another
result of even greater significance, and
that is the existence of a real union
where before there had been bu.t the
shadow of one. Very recently I had
occasion to view the new headquarters
of the union, and the contrast with the
headquarters before the fight' was
enough in itself to tell what a dif
ferent thing the Ladies' Waist-Makers
Union now is from the union of six
months ago. Instead of a corner in one
room, the union has a suit of two rooms,
which it already finds too small for its
purpose; instead of a few hundred
scattered members, there are now
twenty thousand girls in good stand
ing, with new ones coming in daily,
instead of the entire staff of officers
being incorporated in one man, the
union now has two organizers, two
recording secretaries, two financial
secretaries, nine walking delegates, one
bookkeeper, and three stenographers.
Besides, each organized shop lids a
voluntary chairman, and once a week
all the chairmen meet with the walking
delegates to report the conditions of the
shops. In this way the union is kept
in constant touch with each individual
shop. Instead of an income of but
little better than nothing a week, the
average weekly income from dues and
initiation fees is $3,400. The union has
also established an employment bureau
in its offices. When any girl is out of
work, instead of tramping from shop to
shop, she need only come to the bureau
at the union's offices.
And, besides, the strike has had an
other result. There has been a tradition
that women cannot strike. These young
inexperienced girls have proved that
women can strike, and strike sucess-fully.
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LITTLE LABOR NOTES.
Gleaned From the Field Where Labor
Is Exploited.
Samuel Gompera, President of the
American Federation of Labor, has not
ified the San Francisco Labor Counail
that i will be impossible for him to ac
cept the invitations of that body to
deliver the Labor Day address at San
Francisco.
Appeals to their brethren of the
American railroad employes' orders
reached Douglas. Ariz., on August 5,
from Conductors Parish, Haley, Chat
lin and Englehart of the Southern Pa
cific lin'3s in Mexico, who have been im
prisoned at Guaymas for nearly a
month.
A permanent arbitration board com
posed oif twelve representatives each
of . labor and capital was formed at
San Francisco on August 4. The
board is organized under the auspices
of ithe Chamber of Commerce and the
Labor Council and Building Trades
Council.
The eight-hour day for freight con
ductors and trainmen and the mileage
basis for passenger crews are the .most
important propositions that wiill ibe sub
mitted to the Orlder of Railway Con
ductors and the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen in Ithe next ten or fifteen
days.
Charles H. Moyor was re-elected Pres
ident oif the Western Federation of
Miners by a large majority at the
convention held at Denver on August
1, and it was voted to hold the next
convention at Butte. A committee iwas
appointed to confer iwith the Ameri
can Federation of Labor with a view
to affiliation.
STRIKES AND BENEFITS.
Greatest Battles of Labor Have Been
Waged Without Funds.
John :. Lennon. treasurer of the
Amei'ic;:n Federation of Labor and
general secretary of the Journeymen
Tailors' Union of America, has placed
before the members of the latter or
ganization some interesting opinions
on the question of strikes and bene
fits. Mr. Lenuon has been secretary
treasurer of the Tailors' union for
twenty-five years, mid his opportuni
ties for observation at close range have
beeu unlimited.
In cases of strikes or lockouts in
volving only a few journeymen. Mr.
Lennon says, it is a mistake to permit
the displaced workmen to take em
ployment in other tailor shops in the
town or to go to other towns. Where
a union has had the power and cour
age to say, "No, 3-011 cannot leave our
city, nor can yon accept work in any
other. shop until this contest is set
tled." they have lu nearly all cases
won, according to Mr. Lennon. But If
the strikers leave town or accept work
in other shops the result is almost as
bad as if they went "scabbing," he
says, and under such circumstances
success is practically impossible.
Mr. Lennon also thinks it is a mis
take for local unions to pay or attempt
to pay strike benefits. He holds that
the benefit paid by the national union
is sufficient. He says that the mem
bers who strike because they are guar
anteed the combined benefits of na
tional and local organizations do not
make good strikers. When the local
treasuries are exhausted, which some
times is an enrly result of the special
demands made upon them, such strik
ers become disgruntled And weak
kneed. To clinch the point under both these
beads Mr. Lennon suggests tbat if any
one doubts bis assertions he should
study the history of the world's labor
struggles. He declares "they will dis
cover that the greatest battles of labor
have beeu made by those who bad
scarcely enough from day to day t
keep them alive."
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