Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he conciliated a strike of Jewish garment workers, the misery of many Jews first struck him strongly He read up-slowly as is his habit-on their problems, joined the Zionists in 1912. Two years later the World War threatened to disrupt the work of International Zionism. He took command and put his economic principles to work in Palestine. The War situation of Zionism was a crisis. Justice Brandeis considered it an Ivry and was proud to boast, as he (erroneously) remembered King Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) had boasted to his Captain Crillon...
Members of the Harvard Socialist Club, in company with students from other institutions, in and near Boston, will take an active part in the dressmakers' strike which has been called today. The demonstration, which is organized by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, will take place in Strike Hall. 25 La Grange Street, Boston, starting at 8.30 o'clock...
Opposed to the bill were representatives of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, who claimed that it would not limit protection only to original designs, but would make U. S. merchants liable to infringement charges on every household necessity, on every garment sold...
Demands of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: abolition of 1,500 "sweatshops"; 10% wage increase; a 40-hour, five-day week; an impartial commission to settle disputes; unemployment insurance. Well heeled was the Union for this walkout; last summer it sold $250,000 worth of 5% strike bonds...
...last week New York dressmaking was at a standstill, but New York dressmakers were not so. Shortly after they began picketing the garment center there were numerous riots and arrests, and one Jacob Rothenberg, open shop manufacturer, died from a fractured skull, having been knocked down on the street. Friends claimed he had been intentionally attacked. To Albany went representatives of strikers and employers to confer with Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lieutenant...