-nthe conditions. "Never mind about ; -what you put up with in the shop," ' one of the men interrupted. "You can put up with anything if you get enough to live on." Their cry was the reduction in wages. "Lady," said one, touching my arm in her surge of indignation, "they pay us 12 cents to finish a coat that takes aa hour and ten minutes, and they give us 15 cents for an overcoat with a skeleton lining that takes two hours. I can't make more than $5 a week no matter how hard I work, and ' I'm experienced. I cry when they give me the work sometimes because I know I can work and work and I can't make my living." "You're a woman, but I'm a man and I've got a family a wife and three children and I can't make more than $10 working 54 hours a week," said another speaker. "There is a man over there-who has six chil dren and a wife and in the rush sea son he gets $14 as a shaper working frors 6 in the morning until 6 or 8 at night" "There's an old man who works near me," a girl stated. "He's deaf and dumb and he's been a finisher all his life and worked in the shop five years. I saw his envelope last week. He got $1.75. He hasn't got a soul to do anything for him but himself. When I can spare it I give him a sand wich at noon, but if I got only a piece of dry bread he is thankful because he wouldn't get any if we didn't bring him what we can." A girl of 17 with a face like a doll, flaxen hair and big blue eyes, stared wonderingly. "She's so nervous she can't talk to you," said another. "She makes $3 and $4 a week and she's all alone here except her brother. Her brother works and they live as cheap as they can because they send money to the old folks. We all got somebody we got to do something for. I got my parents to support and I make $6 a veek at the most" J "How do you live?" I asked, and she shrugged her shoulders with that gesture that is becoming a fatalistic motion with the workers. "We got to live," she answered. "We go without. When we got work we get along on almost nothing. When the slack season comes we go in debt If a girl has to take care of w herself she gets the cheapest clothes she can put on to cover her and she does without enough to eat lots of times and when she hasn't got any work she goes in debt That girl over there was sick three weeks. We took up a collection in the shop to help her out She didn't have a cent for her doctor nor to live on when she couldn't work." "And yoti?" I asked another girL "How much do you make and how do you live?" "Just the same," she answered. "I make $4 and $5 a week, but I got a father. I pay for what I can and he's got to pay for the rest He's poor, but what can he do? Somebody's got to do it; they can't put me on the street" "These workers are all experi enced," said one of the officers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. "We have the average wage the men have been getting. It is from $5 to $12 a week in their busy season and less when work slacks up. We did not even know conditions were what they are and the union did not approach them, but they got so desperate they walked out themselves and came to us this morning." "Let's sit down and talk over what we better do," suggested a man. "We got to do something. We're desperate or we wouldn't be ouU I know be cause I got a family and I got to be desperate to throw up my job alto gether. Let's find out what we can do." Fifty-seven members of Nat'I Pickle Packers' ass'n convening at Palmer house. Claim pickles pre serve teeth and sweeten tempers. m