Word: garments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side of Labor's street, A. F. of L. President William Green was busy as a bird dog. His busyness: horse trading with the Smith Bill (see col. 2); wooing David Dubinsky's independent garment workers; giving an approving pat to A. F. of L. stagehands...
...International Ladies' Garment Workers Union convention in Manhattan, Sol Arian Rosenblatt, impartial chairman of the cloak and suit industry, proposed that Communists be deprived of their right to vote, said to cheering delegates: "While we may not deprive these termites in our midst of their citizenship, laws may still be enacted-and properly-to deprive them of the highest exercise of that citizenship, which is the right to vote...
...starred a social project as ever drew howls from anti-New Deal columnists is Jersey Homesteads, a settlement of 200 flat-roofed, garage-like homes halfway between New York and Philadelphia and hard by the Revolutionary battlefield of Monmouth.* Designed for Manhattan garment workers, 120 of whom paid in $500 each for participation in a cooperative garment factory on the grounds, Jersey Homesteads was thoroughly snarled in Government red tape. Some $4,000,000 went into purchase of the land (1,275 acres), building of a factory and homes, equipping a communal farm. Thousands of dollars went out the window...
...garment factory was a dismal flop, found no market for its coats and suits. Government loans of $200,000 fell due, and the Department of Agriculture, which had fallen heir to R. A.'s white elephant, finally foreclosed, sold some of the plant machinery for $1,811. Jersey Homesteaders who could find jobs commuted to Manhattan or Philadelphia, still counted themselves lucky to be living in the country at monthly rent...
Profits from the Student Union Dramatic Club production of "Waiting for Lefty" and "The Fall of the City" will also be added to the fund. Contacts will be made today with the Sailors. Garment-Workers, Waitress, and Taxi-Drivers unions in an effort to sell blocks of tickets to the play...