Word: garments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aimed at the masses and the low-income groups (incomes of $750 to $4,500 a year). For them he provides two pages a day devoted to labor news, union activities and unemployment, also bargains in food and clothing, cartoons by some leftist artists, drawings and photographs of garment workers, Negro scrubwomen, shirt-sleeved men and blousy women at play...
...Many another, eager to serve Uncle Sam, had given up his job to enroll. Among the applicants were night watchmen, janitors, clerks, boys who had never worked. Housewives phoned to recommend their husbands, explained that although the husbands were not mechanics by trade, they were handy around the house. Garment workers mistakenly enrolled for a course in pattern cutting, learned that it dealt with cutting machine parts, not underwear. Some applicants arrived on the run to take "machine-gun practice," found that a radio announcer's tongue had slipped: he meant machine-shop practice...
...does hereby reaffirm its belief in the honesty and integrity of Brother William Bioff. . . ." Dusting out of Louisville, Mr. Green rushed to New York City to beg the gar ment makers (International Ladies' Garment Workers Union) to come back into the A. F. of L. fold. President Dubinsky's terms for rejoining: i) elimination of the penny-a-month tax which...
...clean-out of racketeers in A. F. of L.'s ranks. Mr. Green, with the smell of I. A. T. S. E. cigar smoke still in his clothes, considered, agreed to the first two, hedged on the third. At week's end, valiant Mr. Dubinsky led the garment workers back anyway, deciding apparently that he could fight for his third point better from within than from without. Said Pegler: "The garment workers . . . have begun a fight against . . . criminals in organized labor, and David Dubinsky will deserve credit for the eventual victory." Mr. Green was still popular enough...
...class, creed, point of view or personal advantage. Like electric light, it goes everywhere." Following the usual Buchmanite technique, MRA headquarters issued a list of current MRA "endorsers."-Among them: President Roosevelt, Admiral Byrd, Secretary of War Woodring, Secretary of the Navy Edison, Speaker Bankhead, David Dubinsky (International Ladies Garment Workers), Dan J. Tobin (International Brotherhood of Teamsters), Paul...