and laundries; and this law should cover
the installation of seats for great numbers of workers now standing.[40]

The establishment of juster wages, as well as the observance of all these
laws, and of the sixty-hour-a-week law, might be most practically
furthered by the existence of a trade-union in the laundries, backed by
stronger governmental provision for inspection.

V

It has been said that the unfortunate features observed in the laundry
business in New York seemed to be due primarily to lack of general
regulation. In February 1911, the Laundrymen's Association of New York
State (President, Mr. J.A. Beatty), the Manhattan Laundrymen's
Association (President, Mr. J.A. Wallach), and the Brooklyn Laundrymen's
Association (President, Mr. Thomas Locken) conferred with the Consumers'
League, and asked to cooeperate with it in obtaining additional factory
inspection, the legal establishment of a ten-hour day in the trade, and
the placing of hotel and hospital laundries under the jurisdiction of the
State Labor laws.

The League agreed to print on a published white list the names of the
laundries conforming within a year to a common standard determined on at
the conference. These are the main points agreed upon and endorsed.

WHITE LIST STANDARD FOR LAUNDRIES

Physical Conditions

1. Wash rooms are either separated from other work-rooms or else
adequately ventilated so that the presence of steam throughout the
laundry is prevented.

2. Work, lunch, and retiring rooms are apart from each other and
conform in all respects to the present sanitary laws.

3. All machinery is guarded.

4. Proper drains under washing and starching machines, so that
there are no wet floors.

5. Seats adjusted to the machines are provided for at the

a. Collar ironer feeder.
b. Collar ironer catcher.
c. Collar dampener feeder.
d. Collar dampener catcher.
e. Collar straightener.
f. Collar starcher feeder.
g. Collar starcher catcher.
h. Handkerchief flat-work feeder and catcher.
i. Folders on small work.
j. Collar shaper.
k. Collar seam-dampener.
l. Straight collar shaper.

6. The ordinances of the city and laws of the State are obeyed in
all particulars.

Wages

1. Equal pay is given for equal work irrespective of sex, and no
woman who is eighteen years of age or over and who has had one
yea