Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permitted a lowering of the all but impenetrable veil that shrouded their condition from the outside world. California's Labor Commission and the San Francisco Central Labor Council have heard depressing testimony from Chinatown residents about working conditions in the district. Last week, led by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union,* labor opened a campaign of pickets, sanctions and the threat of boycott against eight Chinatown sewing shops and a contracting firm. Although the goal is not immediate unionization, the 25,000-member culinary workers union is waiting in the wings, and a labor spokesman called the drive...
...Manhattan, Broadway and Seventh Avenue run side by side and at one point intermingle. So do the ideals of their denizens, to the extent that Seventh Avenue, capital of the garment industry, is almost as much show biz as Broadway. Thus this week Garment Manufacturer Richard Schwartz, the young (28) president of Jonathan Logan Inc., flies west for road-show tryouts of his new knit line. Schwartz will see what sells best among buyers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago, get his stitchers busy for what he hopes will be a long run in his New York showrooms...
...Like the garment district itself, Jonathan Logan Inc. (a name coined by David Schwartz, who liked its tone) is a blend of old and new, noise and quiet. Richard Schwartz, a bachelor who studied at Cornell ('60), rides to the hounds and plays chess, gives division managers authority on everything from design to advertising, while he concentrates on finances, futures and foulups. His father, who prefers bridge and gin rummy, has moved up to the largely honorary job of chairman, though he personally runs the pioneer division of the corporation that markets the Jonathan Logan juniors and roams through...
...dapper native of Sicily whose only prison time, despite two murder arrests, was a short term on a 1922 stolen-car rap, all the while fiercely maintaining that his luxurious home and six-figure income was the product of honest hard work in his Seventh Avenue garment factories; after a long illness; in Lido Beach...
...squads in Mediterranean ports, so that American supplies could be unloaded against the opposition of Communist dock workers." Braden said that CIA funds also went to Victor Reuther, brother and assistant of President Walter Reuther of the United Automobile Workers, and to Jay Lovestone, of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, for the purpose of helping various anti-Communist unions abroad. His article is highly self-flattering and oversimplified, but most of his statements appear to be correct. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany called Braden's account "a damn lie"-but added cautiously, "to the best...