Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noted in the CRIMSON in the first page articles "Whites" Role in Bias Fight Argued Here" by Michael A. Lerner, (Oct. 10) is correctly attributed, then may I take exception and state that it is simply untrue to say that the only jobs available to Negroes working in the garment district of New York, are "... as janitors, and pushing garment racks around." If this observation is the result of walking around that area of New York, then the observers also ought to go inside the buildings. Negroes (and Puerto Ricans) are a large and increasing proportion of the garment industry...
...Editors of the CRIMSON: A front page story in your issue of Oct. 10 reports that a Larry Palmer described for a campus civil rights meeting how "depressing it write visiting New York's garment district, to see that the only jobs Negroes could get 'were as janitors, and pushing garment racks around...
This is altogether absurd. Anyone who really visited New York's garment district could quickly and easily ancertain, that thousands of Negroes are employed here, along with numbers of more than a dozen other minority groups, as operators, pressures, and cutters and in other skilled occupations...
Palmer described how depressing it was, visiting New York's garment district, to see that the only jobs Negroes could get "were as janitors, and pushing garment racks around...
...registered Aberdeen Angus beef cattle; an IBM machine tells many farmers, on learning the size and location of their farms, what crops to plant, what fertilizers to use and how many laborers to hire. Computers help to design comfortable brassieres for the garment industry, and have so highly automated many warehouses down to the billing and shipping that Rose Marie Reid swimsuits has cut by 75% the time it takes to ship a suit after getting an order...