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Show fc> A Q S , 302 throats but by winning their consent by persuasion, reason, and practical demonstration." An interesting illustration of the legislative function of the Labor Adjustment Board came when the question of overtime and the forty-four-hour week was decided. The agreement had simply specified that the work week should be forty-four hours and that overtime work should be paid for at the rate of time and one-half. Should a man who comes into the shop at one o'clock and works until 6:30 be given an hour and a half overtime because he has worked an hour and a half past five o'clock? Should a man who works only thirty-six hours a week in four installments of nine hours a day be given four hours of overtime? Here was a question for legislation. The judge differed from both the workers and manufacturers in their final ruling, but the word of the "two houses" in the legislature was made law. It was decided that only work in excess of eight hours in any one day or in excess of four hours on Saturday should be counted as overtime. The man who THE OUTLOOK comes to work at one o'clock and works until 6:30 is not given overtime, but the man who works nine hours a day is given one hour's overtime even if he works only one day a week. The proof of any pudding is in the eating. "While the New York clothing market is being destroyed by a bitter industrial struggle, Rochester workers and manufacturers are maintaining harmonious relations with profit to both. They have renewed their agreement so that it will not expire until June 1, 1922. The firms which have helped to maintain the industrial government are some of the largest and most influential in the United States. They include L. Ad-ler Brothers & Co., August Brothers & Co., the L. Black Company, the A. Dinkelspiel Company, R. Goldstein & Co., Goodman & Suss, Hershberg & Co., the Hickey-Freeman Company, Louis Holtz & Sons, Inc., Joseph Knopf & Sons, Inc., Lears, Prinz & Mandel, the Levy Brothers Clothing Company, McGraw, Benjamin & Hays, the Rochester Standard Clothes Company, Rosenberg Brothers & Co., Steefel, Strauss & Con- 23 February nor, the Stein-Bloch Company, the Weiss Kopf Company. The effect of this industrial government upon the union has been marked. In its earlier stages the union in Rochester was dominated by the men who were the most daring fighters and loudest talkers. They were not necessarily men of careful judgment and responsibility. Now the union is dominated by leaders who know the industry from A to Z, men who are capable of representing the workers before a court which requires reasoned statements supported by an array of facts. The union has- established a labor college for its members and is seeking to build up their cultural life. The fighting spirit is still there, but the era of peace in the clothing industry has allowed the union to devote much of its energy to constructive endeavor. "Not only is the democracy of Rochester developing leaders who make for safety," says Dr. Meyer Jacobstein, "but, in the second place, it is developing trained citizens-trained citizens who are informed, enlightened, and disciplined." UNDER THE SWAY OF HUNGER I-LAST YEAR BY LUCU E. LYONS LITTLE WINTER sat on a tiny bench in the bare Chinese courtyard, with the pale November sunshine falling about her. She needed all the sun there was, because she still wore her summer garments, with a very tattered fragment of grandmother's old wadded coat tied about her body. She had outgrown her last year's winter clothes, and this year there was no cotton to make larger ones. Even now mother was dividing the old wadding to make it stretch farther and piecing the outside and the lining with strips cut off from the bottom of her own coat. Little Winter did not greatly mind the cold, though. She did not greatly mind anything any more. Two months before she had cried when they told her there was no more porridge after her half-bowlful was gone. She had cried because her millet cake was full of dry chaff that hurt her throat. But since then many, many of their meals had been only a soup made of leaves and weeds, and now even the leaves were gone. Somehow it was too much trouble to cry about things any more. Instead of crying she was playing a game. Spread, out on the hard ground before her were many broken bits of pottery, with which she carried on her little make-believe. If the game had had a name, it would have been called "Last Year." She began to arrange the pieces in regular order. "Last year there was (C) Underwood SEARCHING THE BARREN FIELDS FOR LEAVES AND ROOTS "Many of their meals had been only a soup made of leaves and weeds, and now even the leaves were gone" good millet porridge," she said, putting down a very large one. "Last year there were salted vegetables. Last year sometimes there was white bread." Then she paused, trying confusedly to remember all the glories of that distant time. She needed big sister to help her play the game. She got up, gathering together the precious fragments, but she did not dart across the yard in the manner of former times; instead she walked sedately and a little shakily to the front gate, where Little Spring was at her usual task of caring for the fretful baby. He had not forgotten how to cry, and Little Winter looked at him with solemn dark eyes as he stretched out his small body in an angry wail. "Sister," said Little Winter when the baby was finally pacified, "come and play it is last year. Tell me some more things we had." "Are you still playing that?" exclaimed Little Spring. "Why do you always play that?" But she sat down to the game nevertheless, for even nine years old has not yet outgrown the comfort of making believe. "This one is the porridge," said Little Winter, "and this is the vegetables, and this is a great big piece of white bread. What else is there?" "There is chicken soup," said big sister with decision. Then, warming to the subject, she went on with enthusiasm, putting down the pottery bits as she spoke. "It is a feast," she announced. "Here is a bowl of meat-balls, |