The West-End Tailors are out on strike, some 7,000 of
them, in the employ of eighty-five firms. They have a very good case indeed, which they are spoiling by attempts to intimidate. The men Leceally wanted-shorter hours, and- after a- sharp dispute they were conceded. The masters, however, in this trade are keen men, and there is some, though not much, female competition, and they "took it out of the men" by increasing the work in each hour. A pair of trousers, for example, is counted as two hours, say eighteenpence, a fact we recommend our readers to mention when they next pay their tailors' bills. The men now want an "amalgamated log," an agreement, that is, both as to hours :nd the quantity of work which is to be equivalent to hours, and till this is settled a rise in wages. They will probably succeed, but unfortunately they have deprived themselves of all sympathy by setting pickets to stop people willing to work.
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