1.   A newly proposed code of conduct for domestic and overseas sweatshops makes useful pledges to improve the appalling working conditions of apparel workers around the world.

2.   But we have expanded our efforts to include lower-end apparel workers.

3.   It hired a young apparel worker from Cleveland, Rose Pastor Stokes, to write an advice column.

4.   Ms. Wilson said she sympathized with the predicament of poor apparel workers who cannot afford day care or summer camp.

5.   Mrs. Impechiate is typical of apparel workers in the region.

6.   Reich has been better than most public officials in the attention he has paid to the problems of exploited apparel workers, here and abroad.

7.   She said apparel workers often tell her that they have little alternative but to take their daughters to work on Saturdays or summer days.

8.   The story told by one apparel worker, Eber Orellana Vasquez, is not unusual.

9.   WITH GRAPHIC MAP showing what apparel workers earn around the world.

10.   One hundred thousand American textile and apparel workers lost their jobs in the past year, the group said.