ABSTRACT
The strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Chicago, October-December 1915, was a fine piece of human effort. The strike of 1910 was lost, though it had the sustained official backing of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and of the affiliated Women's Trade Union League, It would be as fruitless as uncongenial a task to go into the sordid details of the loss of that strike. There are two clothing manufacturers associations in Chicago, closely allied, both having offices in the Medinah Building, The Wholesale Clothiers Association and the National Wholesale Tailors Association. In the association houses, although the price of garments rose rather than fell, wages had been constantly falling since 1910, until in the autumn of 1915 they had fallen from 35 to 40 per cent below those of 1910, and conditions were felt to be no longer tolerable.
