Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kosher Label. There was scattered opposition from the floor. Said Louis Nelson, a longtime leader of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: "You're trying to put a kosher label on this Lindsay!" Though the Liberal Party supported retiring Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner, it has lost some ground recently, and its leaders know that by fusing with a triumphant Lindsay it could maintain its standing as the city's third political force...
...Matter of Heart. Starting his campaign for the September primary, Screvane moved into Manhattan's heavily Jewish garment district, accompanied by Humorist Harry Hershfield. O.K., cried Hershfield, so maybe Screvane is of Italian-Irish descent and married to Limerick-born Bridie McKessy-but "he has a Jewish heart." Although by no means assured of his own party's nomination, Screvane went on the offensive against Republican Nominee John Lindsay, attacking him as a "socialite, silk-stocking Congressman" and as "the boss-backed candidate of the Republicans, who masquerades as an independent...
...preparation for his step-out into space, White spent 60 hours in vacuume chambers that simulated altitudes of up to 180,000 ft. Patiently, he practiced moving about in the suit he would wear outside the capsule. Weighing 31 lbs and costing over $30,000, the garment is a marvel of cautious construction With 22 layers, it acts as a coat ot armor, as a heat repellant, as protection from deep-freeze temperatures, and as a pressure force to keep White s body from exploding in the near-vacuum of space. Yet it also allows a certain freedom of movement...
Unlike the Electrical Workers' Carey and the Steelworkers' McDonald, most major union leaders are returned to office almost by rote. Among these is Polish-born David Dubinsky, president of the 440,000-member International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Last week, at 73, Dave Dubinsky was re-elected for a twelfth three-year term and was awarded a $50-a-week raise (to $31,000 a year). As usual, he had only token opposition. Said Dubinsky after 1,000 I.L.G.W.U. convention delegates gave him an ovation: "There is much more to be done. I feel...
...Leon Stein, "but how do you dramatize a tax cut?" On the other hand, union members now read their papers for much the same reasons that other people read the commercial press: for information and for entertainment. "In the '20s and '30s," recalls a Manhattan ladies' garment worker, "there were just two classes of society. It's a different world today, and Justice is also different. We're all better for the change...