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...walls ought to be raised against foreign cloth. The United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers International has organized a "Buy American" campaign aimed at retailers and the public, distributes handbills before some stores that sell chiefly imported headgear. Last year the 1,200-member local of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in Roanoke, Va. struck the Kenrose Manufacturing Co. Inc., which had just opened a new plant in Ireland. The union won a company agreement to set aside part of its Irish profits to compensate workers for any wage loss resulting in the Virginia plant after two years...
...spring, she will buy one wonderful suit. She has never worn mink. She wears a wool coat over a suit or dress for lunch or dinners. She has one or two evening dresses-classic and simple and terribly chic, not startling." In the aftermath of the battle of the garment district, Jackie has vowed to buy only American clothes in the future, and will resort to muumuus if it will save Jack from embarrassment. Says she: "I am determined that my husband's Administration-this is a speech I find myself making in the middle of the night...
...under New York State's never-used Condon-Wadlin Act, which outlaws strikes by public employees on pain of dismissal. But School Superintendent John J. Theobald did not invoke the law, instead suspended the strikers. Then Mayor Robert F. Wagner called in three top labor leaders, including the Garment Workers' Dave Dubinsky, to "mediate." Said one: "We pledge to the families of New York City that there will be no recurrence...
...could have recited the Boy Scout oath and brought forth ovations. Everywhere it was the same last week: through Republican heartland from Iowa to Michigan, the throngs eddied around him. Each campaign day topped the previous 24 hours. When he flew into Manhattan for a rally in the garment district, a wall-to-wall carpet of humanity spread out for 12 blocks around...
...GARMENT INDUSTRY, women's wear manufacturers and David Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union agreed on the establishment of a $10 million fund to provide severance pay to garment workers whose employers go out of business. The plan, which will be paid for by the employers, will ensure 450,000 garment workers weekly payments of from $12.50 to $25 for as long as 48 weeks if they are unemployed as a result of business failures. Industry leaders hailed the step as a stabilizing influence: in the past, when an employer was forced to close...