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Hyman allows his meritocratic "British whiz kids" easy rein, but has unshakable ideas about how far they should gallop. Viyella International leaves research and development on new yarns to such giants as Imperial Chemical or Courtaulds and leaves garment making, when it can, to the tailors. Hyman concentrates on the richly profitable middle ground of spinning and weaving fabrics, particularly Viyella. With this method and with a beady eye on business practices by his "postgraduate students," the professor has turned a $200,000 loss when he moved in into profits of $900,000 last year...
...conditions union have become apathetic. According to Reuther, labor must now turn to broad social causes, particularly the civil rights movement, if it is to recapture its former drive. But until now union participation in civil rights has been limited to a few large unions such as the Ladies Garment Workers, the United Auto Workers, and the Sleeping Car Porters as well as numerous locals. The executive council of the AFL-CIO, however, refused to put its prestige and influence behind the March on Washington...
...noted in the CRIMSON in the first page articles "Whites" Role in Bias Fight Argued Here" by Michael A. Lerner, (Oct. 10) is correctly attributed, then may I take exception and state that it is simply untrue to say that the only jobs available to Negroes working in the garment district of New York, are "... as janitors, and pushing garment racks around." If this observation is the result of walking around that area of New York, then the observers also ought to go inside the buildings. Negroes (and Puerto Ricans) are a large and increasing proportion of the garment industry...
...Editors of the CRIMSON: A front page story in your issue of Oct. 10 reports that a Larry Palmer described for a campus civil rights meeting how "depressing it write visiting New York's garment district, to see that the only jobs Negroes could get 'were as janitors, and pushing garment racks around...
This is altogether absurd. Anyone who really visited New York's garment district could quickly and easily ancertain, that thousands of Negroes are employed here, along with numbers of more than a dozen other minority groups, as operators, pressures, and cutters and in other skilled occupations...