The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 30, 1922, Page 11

| oo. SECTION TWO | WAGE INSURANCE PROVES INDUSTRIAL SUCCESS! Cleveland Plan Is Pronounced Fair After Two Years of Trial CLEVELAND, June 30.—The first basic solution of the sea sonal problem has been proved in the women's garment indus try In Cleveland. Two years of trial, thru the difficult period of readjustment, has shown that the “Cleveland plan” is workable and satisfactory both to employ- er and employe. The plan was worked out In con- nection with @ wage decrease of 10 per cent. The quescion of the redue- tion was pliced before a board of ref, evees, Their decision allowed n.aa ufacturers to put the reduction into effect provided they set aside week- ly 26 per cent of the new wage scale &@ an unemployment fund. Acceptance of this plan was op- tional with the employers, those not accepting it to continue at the old scale and to set aside 7% per cent weekly for an unemployment fund. This was to take care of the smaller manufacturers, UNEMPLOYED PAID TOO ‘The working year was consid ered on a basis of 41 weeks & year, and anyone not employed this length of time, might draw the whole amount of his mint mum weekly wage from the fund during unemployment periods. If a manufacturer provided the full 41 weeks’ work to his em- ployes, he could, at the end of the year, recover the amount of the employment fund. ‘The plan has worked to the entire gatisfaction of both employere and employes. It has stimulated produc- tion and avolied strikes and lock- outs. For it is to the benefit of both that as much work be dope as pos sible; of benefit to the manufactur. er because he does not then have to Pay from the unemployment fund; of benefit to the employe because, employed, he can earn more than he would otherwise get from the unem- ployment fund. RELIEVES WORKERS’ FEAR But the main good of the plan has been that it has relieved the workers of the fear of starvation thra unemployment. Such fear ts detrimental to the employer as well, bringing as it does a de sire to get sufficient during good times to tide over lean times. It is this that causes disagree- ments, strikes and lockouts. And the garment industry is highly seasonal, an industry whose de mand for workers varies consid- erably with the time of the year. Workers and manufacturers un- The Seattle Star PAGES 11 TO 20 SE ATTL E, WASIL, FRIDAY, JU t 30, 1922. Adove—Board of referees which guides the “Cleveland plan” of unemploy- ment insurance. Below—Miss Mary Stydlo, Cleveland garment worker, piece of meat. t who tells how the plan works. der the former plan were In a con- stant state of argument as to what| was a decent li wage. A manu facturer would say: Fifty dollars & week is @ good living wage.” “Yes,” the worker would reply, “put. owing to the seasonal nature of the work, I expect to be let out at the end of 30 weeks, thus making my total income for the year $1500,/ or less than $30 a week.” The attitude of the workers toward the “Cleveland plan” ts well ex emplified by the story of Miss Mary Styblo, a Cleveland garment worker. Miss Styblo made her ‘iret entry in| the garment trades at the age of 16. She began as an apprentice, working 11% hours a day for 50 cents a week. cents a week. Later Mi Styblo was put on $4.85 Values to $10 $9.85 Values to $16.50 values SALE SATURDAY and MONDAY CLOSING OUT 100 Ladies’ and Children’s Trimmed Hats YOUR CHOICE | Trimmed, Dressy and Pattern Hats, all greatly reduced 221 Pine Street $7.85 Values to $13.50 $13.85 Values to $22.50 to $35 ON PINE between Second and Third Aves. the operating machines at $3 « week for an “outside tailor.” When she got @ position with one of the factories “Inside” the manufacturers’ association, her wages were increased to $9 a week. What does she think uf the gar ment industry? “Oh, it's all right now," she says. “There haven't been any strikes for more than three years | and the new girls don’t know what It was like.” Miss Styblo knows something about strikes, She went thru those of 1911 and 19158. TELLS OF STRIKE Sho tells of the strike of 1911: “There were guards all around the factory, at the first windows,” she says, “They were always hav ing fights with the pickets outside, There was acid thrown and rotten egs*. There was a man killed in one of thone fights. “In 1918 practically everybody went out on strike,” she continued. “There was no minimum wa: and the girle got just what the tailor in thetr section wanted to give them. “It was then that the government referees stepped In, settled the strike and there haven't been any strikes since. You don't hear the people talk about striking now. It's all un Ger the agreement now, you know.” Lion Preferred Finger to Meal LONDON, June 20.—While he was trying to lure the Zoo loness from one cage to another with al beast bit off finger. Keeper John Woolston’ Airplanes Used: to Kill Insects PARIS, June %0.—French air- planes are to be used to spray pols. on upon instets destroying vines and trees, as was recently done in Ohio. ‘The wood which fs used for alr.) planes is usually seasoned for 40 years béfore it ts considered fictently in condition to be used. All standard size and non-skid 30x3 ..8 6.50 30x34 7.50 32x34, 8.00 B3ix4 10.00 32x4 12.50 33x4 12.50 34x4 14.00 35x4 16.00 36x4 18.00 82x44 16.50 33x41, 18.00 B4x4V, 18.00 85x41; 18.50 Sraai 20.00 25.00 20.00 20.00 37x5 20.00 MAIL ORDE ALL TIR! W. 0. Sy : STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS, HIGH -GRADE QUALITY LOOK AT THESE PRICES Fabric Casings | Cord Casings | 86x45 WE DO NOT CHARGE WAR TAX RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION AND ARE SHIPPED C, 0. D. WITHOUT DEPOSIT CARRY FACTORY WARRANTY AND BACK THE REPUTATION OF T PIKE ST. TIRE SHOP TANDRING, Prop. Elliott 0446 1026 PIKE ST., CORNER BOREN All non-skid and fully oversize BOX3Y, ..000--- 812.50 82x34, weceeee. 17,00 31x4 22.00 32x4 22.50 33x4 23.00 34x4 23.50 32x44 27.50 33x44 28.00 34x44 30.00 35x44 30.00 30.00 30.00 35.00 38.00 soe wecee eecccees emoecsos 3x5 Jeryna, who had been wearching the (MISSING GIRL IS ‘No Chorus Men With Elsie FOUND IN SOUTH! Mae Meta Waugh Located in Los Angeles Mae Meta Waugh, graduate of the Holy Names acad emy, who disappeared from her | home Saturday, has been located tn Los Angeles, a ing to advices re ceived by Chief of Police W. B. Bev. Duck Has Now SAN Egg-Laying Recordi BENTLEY, Eng., June %0—Am Indian Runner duck belonging Miss A. E. Barr has laid 170 in 170 days and ts still going, Everyone a Regular He-Man ating French wounded under fire Verdun, Also awarded French paign medal. | Richmond Bostwick, Boston, Mass, enlisted in 101st infantry, 26th fon, and went overseas im | Wounded tn action in the Fact tor, the first tmportant en: of American forces. 3 Donald (“Monk”) Watson, Jt Mich., werved in 32nd (Red Arrow) a vision thruout its combat ex; Bradley Knoche, Peorla, TL, 6m listed in Motor ‘Transport Served in all parts of France, 18-year-old | | whole coast for her, Her father, Webster Waugh, Al- aska mining man, took the case to | Assistant U, 8. Attorney Judson Falknor as soon as he learned of his daughter's whereabouts, accusing Frank E. Miller, I -ooklyn, BM. George F. Erm former Seattle enlisted tn 106th (23rd New York) photographer, of financing her fantry, 27th division, with whieh trip. served on the Britich front, At @ armistice Miller was at school Gondrecourt awaiting commission second Meutenant, Frank J. (“Rea”) Muréodk, York city, was sergeant, Q. M. serving overseas more than & at Chaumont and Tours. W. F. Doonfiel4, San and Duane Nelson, Colorado ‘ere buddies in 62nd Field arti First army. Billy Waldron, Lafayette, went overseas in 19th Field ai Fifth division, and was wounded | St. Mibtel. Subsequently tz to 174th Aero squadron. Herbert Goff, New York served seven years tn the navy, war ensign during the world Saw active service In French @ha wns in charge of all radio munication in New York harbor fe a year. Goff wears the Vera and Nicaragua campaign medals. Lieut.-Col. George F. Hinton, York city, served 15 months sean in 269th infantry (St, York), which was detached trom A. E. F. and served in the French army under G:nersi in the 16th and 16ist French fons in Champagne. Sub “Please don't write all your stories |77th division; severely wounded at |ordered to Bordeaux as cu bal warfare has been resumed in|about the; say something about my |Vesle river and received D. 8. C. for |base sector No. 2. Decorated @ Bechuanaland, Many villages have boys”—this is the plea Elsie Janis, | exceptional bravery on that occasion. |@’Academie by French been destroyed. laweetheart of the A. EB. F., who ts| Jurien Thayer, Kalamazoo, Mich., » and awarded French Campaign Lanewenne entertaining with her gang at the enlisted in Columbia University Unit |al. Recommended for D. 8. M._ Erz, who ts known to have had a wife and children, disappeared from his home at 1535 14th ave, shortly be- fore the girl ran away. | Man Meta had gone to Los Angeles to neek a career in the movies. Her parents had no objection to thin, but they wanted her to go to a dramatic echool first and she rebelled. She Wanted Her Cat Back, It Would Seem MOSCOW, June 30.—A Petrograd woman advertises a reward of 6, 000,000 rubles for the return of a lost cat. In normal times this sum would equal $2,600, 008, | Worker Killed as | Pick Strikes Eye STROUDSBURG, Pa, June 90— The pick with which Henry Freher| was digging his garden struck him! in the eye “i plerced his brain, Africans at War, Destroy Villages JOHANNESBURG, June 30.—Tri. SS Sod MONTREAL, Quebec.—To date | Metropolitan this week. Ambulance corps 4 was attached Miss Janis has a fine bu 5,000 head of catte have been! So to please Elsie wel mention all to French army in 1917, serving on | fellow actors, don’t you think? da shipped out of this port to Liver-/the boys. Her e seven different fronts, Received|never live if you referred to @ {Pool and the continent this season. 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