Archive Transcript: Pamphlets

To All Baltimore Women

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TO ALL BALTIMORE WOMEN

EMPLOYED AT

WAISTS, SKIRTS,

DRESSES, WHITE GOODS,

MIDDY BLOUSES

AND

WRAPPERS

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If you wish to earn better wages and work less hours than at present, you women in the Baltimore shops must do one essential thing. You must unite and act towards each other like sisters, one for all and all for one.

The several thousand girls in the clothing factory of Hart, Shaffner and Marx in Chicago, did that some years ago. The women that work in overall and shoe factories had learned that, and you must do the same.

Your employers make enough money. They can afford to pay you higher prices. If you organize and demand better pay, you will surely get it.

If you remain silent and make no de-

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mands you will get nothing, and your conditions will become worse and your earnings smaller and smaller.

In New York City girls employed at your trades earn twice as much as you and work shorter hours. In New York foreladies will not dare to mistreat working girls. In New York there are price committees in each shop, and the girls get paid according to prices fixed by these committees.

You can get the same conditions in Baltimore as well! You can get higher pay, shorter hours, price committees, shop chairladies and better treatment from your foreladies. The only way for you to obtain all th is, is to get together and to begin acting towards each other like real friends and sisters.

Join the Union, and your employers will

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talk to you in a different tone! Be loyal members of the Union and your conditions will improve!

Don't wait until you are invited, but come to the office of the Union and get your Union card. The sooner you will join, the quicker your will succeed in obtaining in Baltimore the same conditions that our sisters and brothers have in other cities in America.

INTERNATIONAL LADIES'
GARMENT WORKERS' UNION
102 1/2 North Park Avenue,
Border State Bank Building.