I have but a
dim recollection of his features, though I distinctly remember his
irresistible wide-eyed smile and his emotional nature
He taught me to bind seams, and later to put in pockets, to stitch
on "under collars," and so forth. After a while he began to pay me
a small weekly wage, he himself being paid, for our joint work, by
the piece. The shop was not the manufacturer's. It belonged to one
of his contractors, who received from him "bundles" of material
which his employees (tailors, machine - operators, pressers, and
finisher girls) made up into cloaks or jackets. The cheaper goods
were made entirely by operators; the better grades partly by
tailors, partly by operators, or wholly by tailors; but these were
mostly made "inside," in the manufacturer's own establishment.
The designing, cutting, and making of samples were "inside"
branches exclusively. Gitelson, as a skilled tailor, was an "inside"
man, being mostly employed on samples
My work proved to be much harder and the hours very much
longer than I had anticipated.
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