The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . clothing industry is being knocked from pillar topost. The Save New York Committee made up ofmerchants on Fifth avenue has announced in full-page newspaper advertisements that the industry,within a few months, will have disappeared from the shop-ping district; buyers will again be able to come out at noon,go from limousine to shop door with ease, and look in at storewindows without having to elbow their way through a crowdof tailors. But the Save New York Committee neglects to mention thedestination of the clothing industry. They promise to restoreto Fifth
The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . clothing industry is being knocked from pillar topost. The Save New York Committee made up ofmerchants on Fifth avenue has announced in full-page newspaper advertisements that the industry,within a few months, will have disappeared from the shop-ping district; buyers will again be able to come out at noon,go from limousine to shop door with ease, and look in at storewindows without having to elbow their way through a crowdof tailors. But the Save New York Committee neglects to mention thedestination of the clothing industry. They promise to restoreto Fifth avenue a sense of aristocratic leisure, and that seemsto be as far as their purpose extends. Therefore it is uponthe clothing industry, through its Joint Board of SanitaryControl, that the task rests of installing in a new place themanufacturers who are leaving their present quarters at therequest of the offending trade, with innumerable internal difficulties From on old print. Courtesy Putna i the Filth Avenue FIFTH AVENUE AT THIRTY-SEVENTH STREET Merchants of today arc seeking to restore New Yorksmain shopping thoroughfare to the aristocratic leisureof the days when it was a street of detached homes. of its own to settle, established its joint board in 1913, at thetime of the first protocol. When all other machinery of ad-justment was abolished after the strike last spring, this board,representing the employers, the employes and the public, withits director, Dr. George M. Price, remained as a body usefulto all sides. And it was a lucky thing for the hundreds of em-ployers and the thousands of employes and the community atlarge that it did remain—it seems to be the sole interestedparty in the present homeless state of the business. The board is now doing its best to find sanitary lofts awayfrom Fifth avenue for the manufacturers who have promisednot to renew their present leases in 1917 and later. Anendeavor is being made to locate them in the section o
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