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Even the thoughtful, business-minded International Ladies' Garment Workers and their C.I.O. running mates, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, hustled to get in line. Both I.L.G.W.U. and Amalgamated had long delayed their wage demands because their employers were running into bad times. But now that business was booming again, both intended to get an increase of 15%. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers beat the drums for 31?, probably would settle for about 25?, while the East Coast longshoremen set out to get another 37? an hour for their 30,000 members. In addition, countless individual craft and trade unionists...
...year in the permanent loss of a reader. But the Forward still has daily local editions in Boston, Chicago and New York, owns its ten-story headquarters in Manhattan, has piled up $2,000,000 in reserves, and given away $3,000,000 to causes it supported (e.g., the garment workers and other unions). The Forward, run by an association of 160 Jewish leaders chosen at yearly elections, was never organized for profit, now has an editorial staff of 40. Since a reporter, after a six months' trial, is hired for life, 25 staffers have worked there more than...
...Communist Party from the start, got read out of the Socialist Party for good in 1933 for supporting Roosevelt. At Cahan's celebration last week, Union Boss David Dubinsky and others praised him as the man who had done more than anyone else to keep the garment workers' union free of Communist influence. When everyone else had finished, old Ab rose to respond, murmured: "I am happier than I ever was in my life. Brothers and sisters, I thank you millions of times." Words failing, he finished by reaching out his arms in a gesture of embrace...
...attempt by Chicago's H. W. Gossard Co., one of the biggest U.S. foundation garment makers, to make men "girdle conscious." It hoped that its recumbent model-who, of course, was so well-formed that she had not the slightest need for a girdle-would make men take another look at their wives and hustle them around to the store for a tighter or, at least, better...
When Gossard was strikebound last summer and the garment workers could not come to terms with President Lee Varley, who has now retired, it was Savard who stepped in and settled the trouble. The strike, coupled with reduced promotional activities, had clipped Gossard's profit 82% last year. When Savard moved into his new job last week, a bunch of roses from the garment workers' union was on his desk. Said Savard: "Our competitors ran while we stood still, but now we're going...