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Title: Men and things
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Henry Avery, b. 1877
Subjects: Working class -- United States Christian sociology
Publisher: New York : Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fth Avenue haveformed an organization and are exerting every effort to save the avenue from this advancing tide of foreignworkers. Many shops and department stores have been forcedto give way before the onward sweep of this enterprise.The area in New York occupied most exclusively bythe garment workers is about a mile long and about one-half mile wide; in this district there are thousands ofworkers employed exclusively in making garments ofone kind and another. The Garment Makers Union hasa membership of 60,000. How much do we know aboutthese workers? When the Triangle Shirt Waist Com-panys loft caught fire anc scores of girls were burnedto death or killed by jumping from the building, thecountry was shocked, but up to that time we had notknown that thousands of girls work every day behindclosed and locked doors. We have almost forgotten theincident. Where was the factory? What w^as doneabout it? The girls were, however, our servants work-ing at the task of furnishing us with clothes!
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THE GARMENT WORKERS 51 Fashion and Clothes. In the last chapter we con-sidered the workers who produce the material fromwhich clothes are made. The question that is still ofvital significance to most of us is, how shall we makeour clothes? I have not a thing to wear, is a verycommon statement, yet it does not mean what it says,for the people that use this complaint most frequentlyare the ones who have literally trunks full of clothes.What they mean is that they have nothing in the latestfashion. Fashion is a hard taskmaster. Some one hassaid that the length of the stay of a society woman atany hotel can be determined by the number of gownsshe brings with her to the hotel. She would no morethink of wearing the same gown twice to the same placethan she would think of insulting her best friends, wasa womans description of her companion to prove thatshe was a real lady. The frequent changes in stylebring rich returns to the manufacturers of clothing andcall for a ceaseless outgo by people

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