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Henry, Alice, 1857-1943

"The Trade Union Woman"

This CONTRACT shall remain in effect until May
1, 1916.
--SIGNED--
PARTY OF THE FIRST PART ... PARTY OF THE SECOND PART

[NOTE. The dog watch waitress has part day and part night work. She is
on duty usually from 11 a.m. till 2 p.m., and again from 5 p.m. till
midnight, in some non-union restaurants till one o'clock in the
morning. The above agreement calls for not more than one split in a
ten-hour watch, otherwise a waitress might be at call practically all
day long and yet be only ten hours at work. A.H.]


APPENDIX II
THE HART, SCHAFFNER AND MARX LABOR AGREEMENTS
[The following brief abstract covers the essential points in the
successive agreements between Hart, Schaffner and Marx, clothing
manufacturers, of Chicago, and their employes, and is taken from the
pamphlet compiled by Earl Dean Howard, chief deputy for the firm, and
Sidney Hillman, chief deputy for the garment workers.]

The conditions upon which the strikers returned to work, as defined in
the agreement dated January 14, 1911, summed up, were:
1.


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