Sixth Annual Report on Labor Organizations for the Year 1913 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report on Labor Organizations for the Year 1913 The principal sources of increase in the number of organized employees in Massachusetts during 1913 were found in the following occupations: Garment workers, members, street and electric railway employees, members, carpenters, members, electrical workers, members, retail clerks, 773 members, bookbinders, 595 members, boot and shoe workers, 675 members, telephone operatives, 638 members, sta tion agents and employees, 521 members, and barbers, 501 members. The large increase in garment workers was a direct result of a special organizing campaign for purposes of securing increased rates of pay and improved working conditions, a campaign which resulted in the most important strike of the year, that of garment workers described on page 6, engaged in the manufacture of men's clothing, and of the strike, beginning about three weeks later, of garment workers engaged in the manufacture of women's clothes which may be considered as a phase of the earlier and more extensive strike. In the case of the street and electrical railway employees and of telephone operatives the special organizing campaigns8 pt. II. Statistics OF labor 1915. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.