Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-02-19 | Page 13 | Unrest in Clothing Industry Decreases

1 UNREST IN IM CLOT ClOTHING NEW NEW YORK Feb 19 Industrial 1 Industrial 1 unrest among workers worker In the clothing Industry ls Is decreasing and indications indica indica- for the future are good Wilham William Wil Wil- liam ham t o Wood d president of the American Woolen Company company d declared here last night lif lin Ii an address before the cl closing session gf the National Association of Clothiers Clothiers' convention Labor tors' tors L or agitators are fast losing their influence on the workers he asserted The workers ar are too level headed to listen m to the agitator longer He declared that lack of contact between and employer em em- em- em poyer has be been n a partial cause of or unrest but added adde that this is fast being remedied Ludwig Stein of Chicago retiring president nt of ot the association declared that shorter working days and less Jess working days days' a week were causes of decrease In production in the clothing Industry He estimated that there I cann cannot t be produced in this country in 1920 more than 75 per cent of the number of f garments that were produced produced pro pro- in in 1917 EH Ell Strouse of Baltimore was elected to os succeed Mr Stein