Show SWEATING SHOPS SHOK A committee recently visited chicago to investigate we vie 11 sweating system and ascertain to what extent it was practiced by sweating is meant the plan of 1 making clothing by contract aud some times by subcontract sub contract that is a dealer in ready made clothing contracts with wih a master tailor for a stipulated sum per suit this don contractor tractor again sublet 3 ane work to individuals who take it home and perform it in wany many cases for one half the original eon contract tract the profit goes to the middleman and the system is known in the trade as sweating the committee in chicago found it extensively practiced it was alpo shown that much of the clothing thus taken out was made in houses where fever ever diphtheria and other contagious diseases t re rev ailed at the time the committee found eighteen persons working in a room rom twenty by twenty give feet with sewing machines aud and benches bench throwaina thrown wain in etwas shown that in ma mal cafes the clothing was used tided as bedding while in the possession of the tailors especially so was this the case in winter the poor operatives noff having clothing of their own sufficient to keep them warm ready made plotting plo thing costs much less than order badeas a rule but it it is not comforting to purchasers purchaser to know how it to is cheapened nor the uses to which it to is sometimes put before it cornea comes to the customers customer |