Show IN1HESWEAF3HOPS Quarters Occupied by Workers Work-ers in Unsanitary State TUBERCULOSIS IS RAMPANT Testimony of James B Reynolds Before Be-fore the Industrial Commission Fourfifths oi the Garment Work In Now York Done in SvcatShops Style of n Garment Was No Guar nntGO Against tho Place of Manufacture Manu-facture Missouri Labor Commissioner Commis-sioner Advocates Arbitration Vasltlngon Nov 11 Thomas M Rlxcy Labor 1 Commissioner of Missouri appeared before the Industrial commission commis-sion today He gave a detailed account > i the St Louis streetcar strike of latit summer and said Ito reason he had not Invoked the State arbitration law for the settlement of the strike was that the law was Inadequate He advocated comnulaoi arbitration James If Reynolds head worker of the University of New York testified aa to the redemption oClbc I slums of New York city to which purpose the society is l devoted The societys building I build-ing in Eldrjdgc street Mr Rcyunlds 4 SkId is now largely surrounded by Russian Rus-sian and Polish Jews and by Roumani ans but he thought these were gradually being crowded out by Italians Ital-ians ay the German were earlier by I the Jews and the Irish by the Germans He said that the children of the quarter quar-ter manifest a disposition to become ashamed of their piiv nlH anti not all of i hUSh wore disposed to adopt the trades I of their fathers Mr Reynolds also contributed considerable consid-erable Information concerning the sweatshops of the east side He said that garmentmaking Is pursued large ly in that section In private apartments and that It had degenerated In recent years He attributed several recent lallures of large establishments to the sweatshop competition He had Investigated nn Instance of 125 workmen four of whom were working I regularly twentyfour hours per diy I six of them thirteen hours and others I less time ranging down to ten hours per day In cases of longcontinued daily service the wagcu were not lu f creased commensurately with the lime put In by the workers In many citRon the workrooms arc used as sleeping apartments and ft large percentage of the quarters are In unsanitary condi ion The witness said the force of Inspectors In-spectors under the State law was In adequate and that there had been complaint com-plaint against the too strict enforcement enforce-ment of the law because of the danger of compelling the removal of tho workers to other States Mr Reynolds said that there was much typhus and also much tubercu lords in the sweatshops Garments i were often thrown upon the dirty floors and when Gov Roosevelt who investigated the question visited the quartern Vc found goods stored In a back room occupied by a man In the last stages of tuberculosis The witness expressed the opinion that fourfifths of I the garment work In New York Is done in the sweatshops An establishment < m Fifth avenue was UK apt to employ vlhese agencies as places elsewhere and the style of a garment was no guaran tee against the place of manufacture |