Word: garment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally someone answers Randall's question (trade unions and the Socialist party) and he goes on. But his style is consistent. "Who would be more likely to join the Communist party in the United States, displaced Negro workers or consistently employed Ladies Garment Workers?" "In Boston who would be more likely to oppose the government, an Irish fireman or a German grocer...
...schoolroom in which a lone model happened to be seated became in Goodman's mind an overwhelming architectural space with a tiny, shredded figure set in what he has titled A Bit of Hell. The sight of a garment wrapped around someone's neck resulted in a drawing called Two Men; the figures look something like sphinxes wrapped in shrouds-ordinary human beings, in other words, who manage to suggest both the death of individuals and the long history of the race. When Goodman draws a woman running, she becomes a symbol of panic; the vision...
...that broke over New York before and just after World War I. By 1918, it was strong enough to help break Tammany's hold on the Lower East Side and elect a Socialist, Meyer London, to the U.S. Congress. It encouraged and often led the organized movement of garment workers out of the city's sweatshops and into the I.L.G.W.U. In 1922 it reached a circulation of 225,000. But already the future had begun to close in. Restrictive new immigration quotas, enacted in the 1920s, dammed the Forward's transatlantic reservoir of new readers. The annual...
Hilliard's program has already shown striking successes. Last year a local garment factory tested 25 women on relief for jobs as power-sewing-machine operators. All flunked, many unable to even decipher the application blank. After attending classes for six months, they retook the test; 18 passed. Nine months ago. a cab company rejected five reliefers as drivers because they could not fill out trip sheets. Last week, after Hilliard's treatment, all five were hired; one man earned $20 his first...
Unlike the vulgar, insipid plays that have recently cashed in on Jewish themes and situations, the show that opened at the Biltmore last night honestly aims at drama. But in outlining the fiscal and marital vagaries of a garment manufacturer, Mr. Leslie Weiner doesn't quite reach...