W.J. Scheffelin, chairman, Miss Wald of the Nurses' Settlement, and Dr.
Henry Moskowitz of the Down-town Ethical Society; two representatives of
the workers, Dr. George Price, Medical Sanitary Inspector of the New York
Department of Health, 1895-1904, and Mr. Schlesinger, Business Manager of
the _Vorwaerts_; and two representatives of the manufacturers, Mr. Max
Meier and Mr. Silver. The work of this committee will be the enforcement
of uniform sanitary conditions in all shops, including the more obscure
and smaller establishments.]
[Footnote 32: This statement is written in the last week of September,
1910.]
CHAPTER VI
WOMEN LAUNDRY WORKERS IN NEW YORK
(This article is composed of the reports of Miss Carola
Woerishofer, Miss Elizabeth Howard Westwood, and Miss Mary
Alden Hopkins, supplemented with an account of the Federal
Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the Oregon
Ten-Hour Law for laundry workers.)
What do self-supporting women away from home in New York give in their
work, and what do they get from it, when their industry involves a
considerable outlay of muscular strength? For a reply to this question
the National Consumers' League turned to the reports of women's work as
machine ironers and hand ironers, workers at mangles, folders, and
shakers of sheets and napkins from wringers in the steam laundries of New
York.
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