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Still small
halls were not enough. Lipzin's Theatre was offered to the
strikers, and mass meetings were held there five afternoons a
week.
Meanwhile committees were appointed from each shop to settle upon
a price list. As the quality of work differed in different shops,
a uniform wage was impossible and had to be settled by each shop
individually. When the hundreds of price lists were at last
complete, meetings were arranged for each shop committee and their
employers. Again the price list was discussed, and a compromise
usually effected. In almost every shop, however, an increase of
from 15 to 20 per cent. was granted.
Apart from wages, the contract insured significant improvements.
Besides calling for recognition of the union it demanded full pay for
legal holidays, limited night work during the rush season to eight
P.M., abolished all Sunday work, did away with the inside contracting
system, under which one girl took out work for several, and provided
for a fair allotment of work in slack seasons.


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