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Show explains, "there are bo6s rag pickers who make contracts for the cuttings at clothing factories and employ men and women to sort them. The poople who sort the raRs In tho cellars are the worst paid workers to be found anywhere and, In addition to this, tho work Is unattractive and by no means healthy. For this reason, the pickers whose union is to bo known as the Clip Sorters' union, want a union wage-scale." RAG PICKERS IN SIGHT, New York, June 27. A strike of rag pickers Is the latest labor trouble threatening the Now York public. Organizers Or-ganizers are now forming n union in this trade, according to an announce-, announce-, ment and a strike for higher wages is contemplated with a few weeki "In this trade." tho announcement |