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Show PUT OFF INQUIRY ; lO i INDUSTRY No Present Investigation ; of . Working Conditions of Woman Garment Workers. - UNABLE TO AGREE ON SCOPE Until Employers and Employees Can Set Together on That and Othsr Controverted Matt re, Noth-Ing Noth-Ing Will Be Done. Inquiry Into the women's garment making Industry lu New York, which was agreed to when the strike of gar nient makers came to an end through the mediation of Secret urlee Hoover find Davis, has been called off. Until the employers and employees ran agree on the scope of the investlga- j Won and other controverted matters it will be In abeyance. Secretary Davis anuounced the Investigation In-vestigation had fallen through. Department De-partment officials who have been immediately im-mediately concerned with relations In the Industry predicted a new agreement agree-ment can be worked out between the Cloak, Suit and SUIrt Manufacturers' Protective association and the Inter national Ladles' Garment Workers' Union before June 1, the date ou which the present contract expires, thereby preventing a strike this summer. sum-mer. : Efforts to bring about the investigation investiga-tion under the dlre,ctfou of a neutral commission have been In progress since Jan. 11. Nominations for the personnel of the commission were requested re-quested of employers and employees. The employers sent In a list of names at once, but the union did not submit Its list for forty days. |