Word: garments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this school 300 pupils were instructed in the art of lawful picketing, in labor investigation, the conduct of strike meetings, adjustment of disputes with employers, and all matters pertaining to the behavior of idle workers during a strike. In consequence of this training the garment strike was conducted with the specialization and division of labor of a capitalist business enterprise. The picketing corps alone cost over $1,500 a day to maintain...
...attract attention," "Don't block traffic," "Don't argue," "Always obey the police," were the main instructions to pickets. These tactics, in regular use in the garment unions, are in marked contrast to the provocative and often violent methods employed by less educated and intelligently led unions...
...content that for four years he has forbidden us to share in the Peace of our Allies, with more than British hypocrisy withdrawing from them the hem of his Puritan garment; he now dares to rebuke us because we do not stand forward to defend from them our foes--a-wallow in the sly of their iniquities...
...International Ladies Garment Workers' Union is a prominent example of a labor organization that has demonstrated both the workability and the worth of educating its members. It consists of thousands of men and women who work in hundreds of small shops and are drawn together only because of their union. For them it is not primarily, as the public so often thinks, an organization created to stir up agitations and beguile the world. It serves its members in many ways. Special arrangements are made with theatres for reduced admissions; concerts and social affairs of all kinds are included...
...statement issued by the Educational Department of the Garment Union, the work is said to be "based on the conviction that the aims and aspirations of the workers can be realized only through their own efforts in the economic and industrial fields. While organization gives them power, education gives them the ability to use their power intelligently and effectively." A union that preaches such a doctrine, and then practices it, is proceeding in a way that leads to the betterment of all its members. For this the public must give them credit...