Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garment, which could be red, green, or blue as the student desired, and which resembles the modern smock, was the student costume at the time of the Harvard bicentennial exercises in 1836. It is being shown as part of a Tercentenary exhibit of rare early American books and manuscripts which will continue at the Harvard library throughout the summer...
...refused to put up any formal defense, on the ground that the whole proceeding was illegal. Nevertheless, on the third morning the A. F. of L.'s absent twelfth vice president, David Dubinsky, head of International Ladies' Garment Workers, which belongs to the C. I. O., dramatically returned from Europe, made his appearance at the council table. Promptly Fourth Vice President John Coefield of the plumbers' and steamfitters' union challenged his right to be present because his union was on trial. Astutely Mr. Dubinsky reminded Mr. Coefield that, if that rule were followed, President Green...
...insurgents who put up the men (Steel Workers Organizing Committee) and money ($500,000 as a starter) to organize Steel. To be depended on for good general advice were such Steel Workers Organizing Committeemen as Julius Hochman, Socialist vice president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers which vainly supported the 1919 steel strike with $60,000; rough & ready Socialist Leo Krzycki of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, another big industrial union, which contributed $100,000 to the same strike; Lee Pressman, "purged" from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1934, who had joined the committee as counsel. President Van A. Bittner...
...International Typographical Union; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; International Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers; International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers...
...Manhattan fortnight ago President David Dubinsky of the huge Ladies' Garment Workers' Union publicly renounced his membership in the Socialist Party, declared himself for President Roosevelt. Last week the progressive American Federation of Hosiery Workers fell in step with its 60,000 members. Convening in Philadelphia, delegates approved (113-to-47) a resolution that "wage-earners have no other practical alternative than to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Presidential election...