Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unions now put out more than 1,000 publications, ranging from slick magazines to mimeographed monthlies, which reach 20 million readers as fringe benefits bought with union dues. The better papers-the Machinist, the Hat Worker, Electrical Union World, the autoworkers' UAW Solidarity, the ladies' garment workers' Justice, the clothing workers' Advance-carry lengthy analyses of legislation before Congress and think pieces on such top ics as automation and narcotics. They are almost all unabashedly Democratic in their politics, and they tend to embark simultaneously on the same liberal campaigns: to abolish right-to-work laws...
...major event of an evening which included a display of African dress and a panel discussion of African and American Negro literature. A group of students, who seemed amused at their new roles as clothing models, came on stage nation by nation, wearing brilliantly colored and patterned garments. At one point, the audience learned that the two huge white buttons on the top-piece of one girl's garment were an innovation by missionaries who had been displeased with the previous more loose-fitting arrangement. (On the whole, Christianity took a fairly heavy beating last Saturday night...
Only three of the ten largest unions impose compulsory retirement on their officials. And labor leaders are a durable lot: President Joseph Moreschi of the Hod Carriers is 80, domineering David Dubinsky of the Ladies' Garment Workers 73, Jacob Potofsky of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers 70, and A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...
...boss of a big Longshoremen's local in Brooklyn is college-trained Anthony Scotto, 30. He is a special case: he was hand-picked by the late Tony Anastasio, who happened to be his father-in-law. And one of the fastest-rising men in the Ladies' Garment Workers is Dave Dubinsky's son-in-law Shelley Appleton, 45. Obviously one of the best ways to get ahead in U.S. unionism is to marry the boss's daughter...
When the actual vote soliciting began again at a 5 p.m. rally of the Amalgamated Garment Workers Union, Bellotti uncorked his "standard" speech for the first time that evening and revealed the line he is taking to get out the Democratic vote in the closing days of this close battle...