Word: garments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty thousand garment workers entered upon the third week of thumb-twiddling. They demand a 40-hour week, a guarantee of 36 weeks' work every year, limitation of the number of jobbers and the registration of contracts with the union. Neither the jobbers nor the union will accept the report of Governor Smith's commission. The impasse is complete...
When scrutinized, Evangelist McPherson's account seemed not to jibe with the discovery of a one-piece bathing suit identified as hers in her automobile, shortly after she disappeared. She made no mention of having been hastily divested of that garment in order that the kidnappers might spirit it into her car before driving off with her to Mexico. Moreover, Evangelist McPherson was not markedly sunburned, last week, though she described vividly her sufferings while crossing burning sands. Speaking from her pulpit at Angelus Temple, she compared her escape to that of Daniel from the lions...
...first years after the war, at Covent Garden, London, a pair of "plus-fours" was seen. Following this outrage the tuxedo, dinner garment of touts dining in company and gentlemen dining alone, appeared frequently in the boxes, where none without full evening dress dared enter in the days when good King Edward reigned. Last week the management of Covent Garden made evening dress once more obligatory...
They began their tour by visiting a newspaper, an ice plant, a bakery, several power plants, and the garment factories in New York City. The most astounding thing to them was the wages paid, especially to women workers. So far as the press was concerned, they were a bit slow in formulating their estimates of what they saw, but one of them said: "One can observe the close co-operation between the worker and the employer at once. The wages, of course, are unusually high. It is my impression that high wages bring high production, although some hold...
...Baldwin is noted for his defense of civil liberty and free speech. In the recent strike of garment workers at Paterson, N. J., he attempted to hold a meeting in a half, oposed by the police, and them led the strikers to city ban where he spoke for free speech and read the New Jersey State Bill of Rights. The police charged the mob and Mr. Baldwin was later sentenced to jail. Mr. Baldwin's activities as a pacifist during the World War also attracted the attention of the nation...