Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1910 — DIVISION OF LABOR. [ARTICLE]

DIVISION OF LABOR.

Bureau Find* It Takes lion 80 fallore to Make One Man’s Coat. According to the United States, Bureau of Labor the old saw “it takes nine tailors to make a map.’’ is filled .with misinformation, for in reality the bureau finds It takes thirty-five men of different trades to make a coat under the present system of shop manufacture, the New York Tribune says. For the day when one tailor measured the :ustomer, cut out the cloth and with ills apprentice shaped it into a finished and pressed garment has practically passed. _ j ~ To-day all one. tailor may do through his entire life is to mark the place where the buttons are to be sewefd on. Another man never marks places for buttons; his specialty Is to mailt but' ionholes. A third man spends the long day In sewtog on buttons; a fourth In making buttonholes. Men who sew sleeves do not make armholes; and armhole men give place to Shapers, and These last do nob touch collars, which are a distinct specialty. Even the men who manipulate the tailor’s feoose are divided into pressers of seams, edges, linings, sleeves and coat pressers. The boaters stick to one distinct specialty of basting and a separate functionary, the basting puller, undoes their work. Even the coat Btrap is a separate province. So that when the coat is finished It represents thirty-nine distinct varieties of work by as many men. And when a man finally puts on Jhe coat he is wearing the product of 312 fingers and fleventy-eight thumbs, not counting the digits of those who sheared the sheep, Wove the cloth, dyed it, finished it, shipped it and cut it, nor the ink-stain-ed clerical hands Which kept book record of all the processes. Probably from sheep to wearer the coat was handled ?>y at least 3,000 fingers;