Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under New York State's never-used Condon-Wadlin Act, which outlaws strikes by public employees on pain of dismissal. But School Superintendent John J. Theobald did not invoke the law, instead suspended the strikers. Then Mayor Robert F. Wagner called in three top labor leaders, including the Garment Workers' Dave Dubinsky, to "mediate." Said one: "We pledge to the families of New York City that there will be no recurrence...
...could have recited the Boy Scout oath and brought forth ovations. Everywhere it was the same last week: through Republican heartland from Iowa to Michigan, the throngs eddied around him. Each campaign day topped the previous 24 hours. When he flew into Manhattan for a rally in the garment district, a wall-to-wall carpet of humanity spread out for 12 blocks around...
...GARMENT INDUSTRY, women's wear manufacturers and David Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union agreed on the establishment of a $10 million fund to provide severance pay to garment workers whose employers go out of business. The plan, which will be paid for by the employers, will ensure 450,000 garment workers weekly payments of from $12.50 to $25 for as long as 48 weeks if they are unemployed as a result of business failures. Industry leaders hailed the step as a stabilizing influence: in the past, when an employer was forced to close...
...Bill's maneuver. For the moderates, T.U.C. Secretary Sir Vincent Tewson uttered common-sense warnings: "Unilateral disarmament would break up the Western alliance. We won't achieve peace by trying to save our own skins." "There's no love or charity in an H-bomb," replied Garment Worker Secretary J. E. Newton emotionally. "I only want to live in peace." Blurted Cousins: "NATO was originally created as a defense body, but there has been a gradual deterioration of that, till now NATO has become an aggressive body...
Meeting New Needs. Not every nation has gotten onto the peculiar needs of the changing technical world. France is still training nearly six times as many garment workers as it needs, but by 1965 it will need three times as many technicians as it turns out today. Unlike the U.S. shift to automation, European manufacturers are changing more slowly. In Germany, the complaint is that businessmen are relying on cheap labor rather than making costly capital improvements. In England, more alert to the danger that a continuing shortage of skilled men may cause a drop in production, the Federation...