Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First program is a slam-bang kaleidoscope of the whole country-snatches of history, honky-tonk Chinatown music from San Francisco, sentimental plantation songs from the South, descriptions of Boulder Dam and Bonneville Flats, the U. S. national anthem (La Bannière Par-semèe d'Etoiles}. Three broadcasts are devoted to New York City, describing everything from Harlem's dance halls to Wall Street ("la maison Morgan, voilá guelque chose...
...enjoyed the afflictions as well as the comforts of the rich. For the last few months he has been having labor trouble. National Dollar's women's dresses, once manufactured on the premises, more recently have been supplied by a factory in San Francisco's Chinatown. Chinatown is the only part of labor-minded San Francisco without labor unions. Chinese remember what the old-line labor movement thought of them, are afraid they would be replaced with whites if they were paid the same wages. The best wages of any garment factory in Chinatown have been...
...Into Chinatown last autumn went an organizer for lively International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, before long organized in Joe Shoong's factory the union's first Chinese local. A National Labor Relations Board election in January established it as sole bargaining agent. Negotiations started. Two weeks later Joe Shoong sold the factory to his foreman Joe Sun and another Chinese. The union thought he had acted in bad faith and its members walked...
Members of the group will have the opportunity to know the city better than most native sons. Chinatown, Harlem, Italy, Syria--these are mixed with visits to the Stock Exchange, the Municipal Lodging House, churches, courts, Ellis Island, the Night Markets, radical centers, and labor groups...
Since the Party has added 22,000 members in the past four months, the 500 delegates to the Party Builders' Congress were well rewarded. Like any salesmen's convention,the Congress started off witha banquet, included group discussions, sightseeing tours, inspection of choice Manhattan slums, luncheons in Chinatown restaurants. Grand finale was a monster rally in Madison Square Garden, with the principal pep talk delivered by Daily Worker Editor Clarence Hathaway, in place of Mr. Browder who was ill with the grippe...