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Since April 17, 800 members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America have been on strike against David Adler & Sons, Milwaukee garment makers, recent converts to nonunionism. Last week, strikers announced they would open a factory of their own, join the 12,000 makers and distributors of natty coats, pants and vests for Hart, Schaffner & Marx...
...Laborleader Samuel Levin promised: "When the firm of David Adler & Sons is willing to operate under ... civilized conditions ... the Amalgamated will liquidate this unit, cooperate in returning workers to their jobs...
Last week Max Adler, vice president of Sears Roebuck & Co., deciding that the U. S. too must have its planetarium, gave $500,000 for its construction on the lake front island east of the Field Museum. Apparatus and instruments will be of the finest, having been ordered from Carl Zeiss, who promised delivery in the fall ot 1929. The 1933 world's fair will see the planetarium performing in its noble 200 foot hall; projecting more than 4,500 planets, planetoids, and stars in orbital motion upon a domed sky 100 feet in diameter...
Said Philanthropist Adler: "In giving the planetarium to Chicago, I have a threefold conception. . . . The third is to emphasize that all mankind, rich and poor, powerful and weak, as well as all nations, here and abroad, constitute part of one universe, and that under the great celestial firmament there is no division or cleavage, but rather interdependence and unity...
Soon Californians heard how Fraulein Stinnes had set out from Berlin, last May, with two Adler cars, four mechanics and Herr Soederstroem. By way of the Balkans, Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus they drove to Moscow and thence to Irkutsk, Siberia, where the four mechanics refused to press on and returned by rail to Berlin. Not thus craven was Herr Soederstroem. He stuck with Fraulein Stinnes at Irkutsk for almost three months, while they waited for Lake Baikal to freeze, then drove across and on to Mongolia, China, Japan and the President McKinley...