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4 ~~ « m4 » other two members at large are Miss SAE FACTOR FHT SLED BY CLOTHING TRADE For Months Manufacturers and Unions Have Been Work- ing at Problem. THROUGH JOINT BOARD. Distressing Conditions Found Have Been Relieved in Part —Obstacles in Way. When the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Man- ufecturers’ = Protective Association votced its horror over the Triangle Waist Company disaster, and renewed {t# pledges of support to Its Joint Board | of Sanitary Control, it called attention to one of the many vital forces at work for the safety of factory employees The organization and functions of this interesting board were described! by Bugene 1, Lezinal f the Protective Association, at its offices in the Fifth Avenue Buldling aimply did not wa humanity and comm: “Like all manuts 4 wretched fire-tra are gown what ry any of our shops. And six months ago, before even the Newarle fire dis- aster, wo established, together with our employees, the Joint Board of Sani- tery Control, authorized to examine all shops and factories and to etsablish proper standards to which the manus facturers agree to ec “The board consists bers, two named by two by the untons, ree represen- tatives of the public. Dr. William Jay Sohieffolin ts its chairman, and the Lilian D. Wold and Dr. Henry Mosco- wits, The Cloakmakers’ Union is repre- sented by Dr. George M. Price and Benjamin Schiesinger, and the manu- facturers by Max Meyer and 8. L. Gilver, Have Good Working Fund, “Tho establishinent of the board came Just after the settlement of*the gre: strike in our industry and the mi facturers and the union contrib equally to # $2,090 fund to start it We are wil so interested we have the working fund to $7,000 and 1 the board permanent.” de -|an unsafe shop. pce NN Ne er reece a. ‘The inspectors found distressing conditions. Por instance, 97.75 per cont. of the shops inspected doors opening inward. Over a Grea shops had Gefectively ar- ranged laddere for the fire-escapes, | capes whatever, Goores of halle ‘were lose than three feet in width, @nd exceedingly dark, while masy doors were kept looked during ‘work hours. Stairs were without hand ratls and the passageway to | fire-eecapes was obstructed, “In every instance the board sent re- Ports of the defects to Building, Lab or Fire departments, as the proper thorities in the case seemed to be, and also informed the manufacturers con- cerned of the dangerous conditions ! has Inspected 69 shope and re-inepected | &né fourteen were without any os- | | being taken up “In @ great many in@ances the manu- factu hanges promptly. ‘The inepe had no diMoulty in get- { ting tn and tn most cases have been act! asaioted by both employers and employees, The chief difficulty has been that in the majority of cases the manufacturer does not own the building, and for any radical change jn tts con struction he must appeal to his dand- lord. The landlord ts too apt to delay | | action ttl forced by some municipal | au ty, and owing to the division | f responsibility in euch matters as| fire protection the command from the | chy {a often very slow, Plan a Radical Rule. | “Our board je considering a radical move to meet this diMeulty, Each man- ufacturer In the association and also the | employeas’ union is bound to obey the| | recommendations of the board, So we may adopt a rule that no employer shall be allowed to continue business in| ‘Then tf, after due | notice, the landlord will not make nece | essary changes, the manufacturer must move to another shop. If he refuses the union Will be authorized to atrike ithout prejudice to the agreement to the manufacturers. “The board does not lay commands on the employers alone.’ So far as It can, it Is preventing amployees from smoking while at work, nd the unions are CORNS! 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