‘Ast Issue, October B.C. LUMBER WORKER : Pots 5

Behind The Union Label

The trade union label of the Amalgamated ‘ trade unionists, whose wages and working
Clothing Workers of America (JTU), Local conditions are protected by union shop condi-
178, will be found on work clothes manufac- tions, as negotiated by their Union.
tured by Aero Garment Co. Ltd., and on suits
tailored by Lounge Fashion Clothes Ltd.
under conditions portrayed below. This label
is a guarantee to customers, that the garments
so marked ‘are fabricated by highly-skilled

All photographs were secured by the IWA camera
man, through the courtesy of the firms indicated, and
George Droneck, B.C. Representative, ACWA, Local 178.
Starting in the Plant of the Lounge Fashion Clothes
Ltd. we see...

+ +. (2) work section such as this coat section, where each “worker
undertakes a special operation, such as pockets, sleeves, linings, etc. but
the most interesting machines in this section are the . . .

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(1) View of cutting room, in Loun: Clothes Ltd. plant, shows
each individual suit being marked in, as ated on customer's order

. . . (3) buttonhole machines, which can cut and reinforce a button-
hole in about ten seconds, and this . . .

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. » » (4) blind-stitch machine which can get the right kind of roll into
@ lopel, without putting the stitching thread right through the fabric so
thet when it reaches the .. .

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