Word: garment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although a few of the representatives are full-time officers of their unions, most of them work directly in the factories, and serve as labor leaders only in their spare time. Most thoroughly represented of the nine industries whose delegates are here is the Ladies Garment Workers Union, which claims four of the 14 men, Samuel J. Hassen, Morris Paladino, Milton Schulman, and George Feffer...
Industry-wide bargaining is still the exception in this country, prevailing nationally only in coal and railroading, prevailing locally in a few industries like printing and the building and garment trades. In England and in Sweden it is the rule, and Mr. Davis was much impressed by its workings there when Mr. Roosevelt sent him abroad on a Government investigating commission...
...extraordinary International Ladies Garment Workers Union made extraordinary news again last week: it approved a cut in its own bitterly won wage rates, if such a cut is necessary to get war work for its members...
...women's army wardrobe will add to the prestige of the corset and brasiere industry, not only because this development would call for large orders, which are secondary, but because acceptnce of girdles and brassieres as part of the standard wardrobe . . . would establish, without reservations, foundation garments as essential to every woman, who will be more attractive for the duration. . . . Much credit is due to the Foundation Garment Institute of America, which worked with the quartermaster department in preparing the specifications...
...short, U.S. women, by the million, have renounced skirts in favor of slacks. They are also renouncing less visible femininities: panties, brassières, slips, and even bloomers and petticoats. They have taken to chemises-not the kind that served as slipcovers under corsets-but a combination one-piece garment combining built-in bra, streamlined shorts, slip-like middles...