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Show CLOTHING WORKERS GIVEN AN INCREASE CHICAGO, Dec. 1. Chicago clothing workers, heretofore paid on a fifty. hour weekly wage scale, will bo paid the same wages for forty-eight hours' work beginning today. Jacob Abt, president of the Chicago Wholesale Clothiers' association as-sociation announced. Time and a halt' will be paid for overtime instead of straight wages. Mr. Abt asserted that today's reduction in working time means that moro than $1,000,000 additional addi-tional yearly will be paid out to employees em-ployees of members of the organization. organiza-tion. Beginning today also. $2.50 "ill n0 the average daily" waue in the Chicago plants of Armour, Swift & Morris Packing Pack-ing companies. |