~ THE FIVE-DAY WEEK
TaBLe 2: NumBerR oF Union MEMBERS, BY TRADES, Em-PLOYED
ON Five-Day Week Basis, OcToBER, 1928
(Source: American Federation of Labor)
Internationzl Union
Number of Locals I Nyubgeet
202
6,156
9.740
2,900
5,100
13.095
1,3802
1,033
15,850
5,000
2,141
34
52,896
11,530
"307
724
36
65
750
3,540
. 164,479
1 The fur workers in thirteen locals, having a combined membership of 11,580,
allow overtime during four months of the year, from September 15 to December 15,
week days, three hours; Saturday, four hours. One local permits overtime in
emergency cases only. The New York agreement calls for four hours’ work on
Saturday in these months.
2 Of these, one local with eighty-two members has the five-day week the year
round, the others have it for eight or nine months. The granite cutters also have
the five-day week for from three to six months in forty locals having a combined
membership of 3,406.
8 This includes four joint boards of several locals.
4 In nicht work only.
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Garment workers—ladies’ .............. ..
Garment workers—united ..................
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Typographical workers . ....
Upholsterers. ....
In its investigation covering manufacturing industries, the
Conference Board found 270 industrial establishments that
were in 1928 operating on a regular five-day week schedule,
and employed 216,921 workers on this basis. It is doubtful
that many of the employees included in the American Federation
of Labor statement are duplicated in the Conference
Board’s tabulation, for the reason that, in the main, quite
different occupations are covered. The known point of
duplication between the two studies is in the garment industries,
but union shops in these industries accounted for only
about 5,500 of the employees covered by the Conference
Board’s study.
