Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-17 | Page 1 | Garment Men Demand Raise

GARMENT MEN DEMAND RAISE Six Thousand Employes Strike and 250 Factories in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Close. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 17. Garment Gar-ment workers numbering about 6,000 went on strike hero today for higher wages and better working conditions. As a consoquenco about 250 factories are closed. The operators say sevoral thousand workers who are not members mem-bers of the union, will join tho ranks of the strikers. Nearly all of the strikers aro women and girls. All of the factories aro picketed. Demand Fifty Hour Week. Tho demands of the strikers are for a fifty hour week; a maximum of four hours a night when working nights; a fifteen per cent Increase in wages; a minimum wage of $6 a week for women and $S tor men; the appointment ap-pointment of grievance and arbitration arbitra-tion committees and the supplying by employers of all materials used.