Herman J. Abbott, glove cutter 16 yrs. I have grown discontented with my lot as a table cutter and that was one of the reasons possibly I voted to strike as I found that my average wage did not come up a skilled working man, as a skilled glove cutter did not come up to the average wage of the unskilled street sweeper in the up to date municipality, and so I became discontented with my lot and I thought it was clearly time I had an increase, and I still think so and I am still fighting for it. . . .I have one child, and to pay my way it is necessary at times for my wife to become a co-glove worker, which I strongly object to. Q. Your wife does work at the glove industry too? A. Yes, sir.

Q. Is that pretty generally true among the glove cutters? A. That is true to a greater extent with the majority of cutters than it is in my case. I mean that where a man has four or five children his wife besides attending to those four or five children and preparing them for school has to work harder and longer hours on gloves at home than my wife with one child would be forced to do. And the statement made by a manufacturer, by a manager of one of the largest firms of this county within the past seven days was to this effect, that when I think of the average wage the cutters in Fulton county are making it makes me wonder what they would do if their wives did not work on gloves. Now we would be in simply a hopeless plight if we could not command our wife or get them to work on gloves to help pay our honest debts. Mr. Littauer made a statement in the conference with the committee, "boys you have no money, you can't go on a strike." He told us in other words that we were poverty stricken and whether we liked it or not we had to sit and listen to it. We say Mr. Littauer because we have no money it is the very reason we feel we ought to strike to get more money. We deserve it and you said so and you as the President of the Manufacturer's Association ought to see that we get it.