TABLE II.—SUMMARY OF WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOR, 1890-1903, BY INDUSTRIES-Concluded. [Average 1890-1899-100.0. For explanation of relative figures, see pages 715 and 716; for explanation of increase (+) or decrease (-) in 1903, as compared with previous years, see note on page 718 ] TOBACCO, PLUG, FINE CUT, AND GRANULATED SMOKING. AGREEMENTS BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES. [It is the purpose of this Bureau to publish from time to time important agreements ade between large bodies of employers and employees with regard to wages, hours f labor, etc. The Bureau would be pleased to receive copies of such agreements henever made.] AGREEMENT BETWEEN MEAT PACKERS AND THEIR WORKMEN. This agreement, entered into by Swift and Company, Armour & Company, Nelson Morris & Co., the National Packing Company, Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, the Cudahy Packing Company, and ibby, McNeill & Libby and the executive boards of the Amalganated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America and he Packing Trades Council in joint session, shall govern all relations between both parties thereto from September 28th, 1903, to September 27th, 1904. It is understood that the memorandum dated October 1st, 1903, attached hereto, is to be considered as part of this settlement as well as the scale of wages. All other conditions not otherwise proided for are to remain as they are at present. These scales are to be ffective in Chicago, Kansas City, South Omaha, East St. Louis, St. Joseph, Sioux City, St. Paul, and Fort Worth. This agreement entered into by representatives of Swift and Company, Armour & Company, Nelson Morris & Co., the National Packing Company, Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, the Cudahy Packing Company, и a $1.05 per 100 heads. and Libby, McNeill & Libby, and the executive boards of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America and the Packing Trades Council in joint session, shall govern all relations between both parties thereto for a period of one year from the date of this agreement. FIRST. That no business agent shall request to see help during working hours, and under no consideration to visit any department without permission from the superintendent's office. SECOND. That in case of any disagreement or misunderstanding there is to be no cessation of work in any department pending investigation and settlement. All cases of this kind to be taken up at an hour agreeable to and designated by the various houses. THIRD. That in the absence of any skilled man those doing the same kind of work will attempt to make up the loss in the amount of work caused by such absentee. FOURTH. That the present system of piecework remain during the life of this agreement in the departments where it now exists. FIFTH. It is mutually agreed that the quality of workmanship shall be kept up to the highest possible standard. SIXTH. That if men absent themselves unnecessarily such absence shall be considered sufficient cause for dismissal, subject to reasonable exceptions. SEVENTH. That the good offices of the organization shall be used to have the men work steadily, as in former years, thereby avoiding many unnecessary expenses and delays. Furthermore, that any skilled workman shall notify his foreman whenever possible whenever he finds it necessary to absent himself from work. Signed, SWIFT AND COMPANY. ARMOUR & COMPANY. NATIONAL PACKING COMPANY. Signed, AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NATIONAL WHOLESALE TAILORS' ASSOCIATION AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF CUSTOM CUTTERS AND TRIMMERS TO THE TRADE, LOCAL UNION NO. 21, OF THE UNITED GARMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA. This agreement made and entered into this sixth day of February, 1904, by and between the National Wholesale Tailors' Association of the city of Chicago, and its members, parties of the first part; and the Brotherhood of Custom Cutters and Trimmers to the Trade, Local Union No. 21 of the United Garment Workers of America, and all of its members, parties of the second part; Witnesseth that Whereas the parties of the first part are in the wholesale tailoring business in the city of Chicago, and the parties of the second part are employed by the wholesale tailoring houses of the said association; and Whereas the parties hereto are desirous of forming a working agreement for the purpose of insuring peace and harmony and benefiting equally all of the parties hereto. Now, therefore, it is mutually covenanted and agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows, to wit: FIRST. Parties of the first part recognize the Brotherhood of Custom Cutters and Trimmers to the Trade, Local Union No. 21, of the United Garment Workers of America, and covenants and agrees to employ in their cutting and trimming departments only members of the said local union. SECOND. It is agreed by the parties hereto that a week's work shall consist of forty-eight (48) hours, ending twelve (12) o'clock noon Saturday. THIRD. It is agreed that the following holidays shall be observed: Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, and not to work on Labor Day. Members of said Local No. 21 receiving regular pay for each and all of them. FOURTH. It is agreed that members of Local No. 21 shall be paid time and one-half (14) for all overtime and double pay for Sunday and holiday work. Meaning and intending hereby that members of said Local Union No. 21 working on a Sunday or a holiday, shall receive a double day's pay for such Sunday or holiday work. FIFTH. It is agreed that the salaries shall be paid to the members of Local Union No. 21 weekly on every Saturday or Monday at the option of the employee. SIXTH. No employer shall discharge any member of Local Union No. 21 who has been in his employ two successive seasons of sixty days each, without first giving such member one week's notice or one week's pay, meaning and intending that the week's notice must be given the employee before twelve thirty (12.30) p. m. o'clock of the Saturday preceding the week said employee is to be discharged, and to pro rate the lay-off each dull season equally between such members of Local No. 21 as shall be retained in his employ. SEVENTH. It is agreed that the wage scale shall be as follows: Suit cutters shall receive not less than twenty dollars ($20) per week. Pants cutters not less than eighteen dollars ($18) per week. Trimmers not less than fourteen dollars ($14) per week. No cutter or trimmer shall receive less than his present salary while with his present employer during the term of this contract. Nothing herein mentioned, however, shall prevent any member of Local No. 21 from exercising his privilege of asking an advance in salary. All members of said Local Union No. 21 employed under the terms of this contract agree to devote themselves conscientiously and diligently to the discharge of their duties to the best of their ability, the amount of work not be governed by any rules or regulations that Local No. 21, its officers, business agent or stewards have adopted, or may adopt, at any time during the period of this contract. It is agreed and understood by and between the parties hereto that in case of unavoidable casualties or labor troubles salaries of the members of Local No. 21 shall cease immediately until such trouble is settled. EIGHTH. It is agreed that in the event of a misunderstanding or any dispute arising as to the construction of this working agreement, or any misunderstanding in regard to the operation or enforcement of this contract between the parties hereto, or as to all differences of opinion in regard to any section of this contract, between any of the members of the parties of the first part and the members of the parties of the second part, no house shall lock out any member of said Local Union No. 21, and no executive board or business agent shall declare a strike, and said Local No. 21 shall not declare a strike, but such misunderstanding, dispute, or difference of opinion shall be referred within twenty-four (24) hours to the respective executive boards of the parties to this contract for settlement, and in case such executive boards fail to settle such controversy within twenty-four (24) hours after the same shall have been submitted to them, it is agreed that each executive board shall, within said second twenty-four (24) hours name an arbitrator, who may be a member of said executive board, and the two arbitrators so selected shall as speedily as possible name one disinterested person who shall not be a manufacturer or a member of any labor organization, and the three so selected shall within ten days' time settle the difficulty, and the decision so rendered shall be binding on all parties to this agreement. NINTH. It is further agreed by the party of the second part that no further or other demands shall be made upon the National Wholesale Tailors' Association, or any of its members, until the expiration of this contract, or engage in any sympathetic strike except for union principles. The question as to whether or not a union principle is involved shall be submitted to arbitration, as provided in the eighth section of this contract, before a strike is called. This contract shall be in effect from March 1st, A. D. 1904, until June 1st, A. D. 1905. Signed in duplicate, February 6, 1904. The National Wholesale Tailors' Association: Jos. C. LAMM, Vice-Pres. ED. V. PRICE, Chairman Ex. Board. EMILE J. ROSE. MAURICE M. STRAUSS M. L. OBERNDORF. J. T. SKINNER. MORRIS VEHON. The Brotherhood of Custom Cutters and Trimmers to the Trade, Local Union No. 21, United Garment Workers of America: J. J. SONSTEBY, President. EXECUTIVE BOARD: A. S. LANGILLE, Chairman. JOHN A. HALLINEN. FRANK KOHL. GEORGE H. 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