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...mother agreed. "He's a reactionary," she said, "diametrically opposed to me." Mrs. Landy, a widow who works as a seamstress in a Belmar, N.J. garment factory, said she had joined the Communist Party in 1937 because she was lonely and it offered friends. "I never intended to bring about a revolution," she said. "I never found Communism to be a conspiracy. Out here in this rural area it was more of a Kaffeeklatsch." Mrs. Landy said she quit the party about eight years ago, but still misses her comrades. Why. then, did she leave them? Said...
...fewer than 1% of the manufacturers approached by Shaw actually carried through with productivity plans. He blamed the lack of interest on trade associations, such as the French Women's Garment Industry Federation, which would rather suppress competition and preserve high profit margins than raise wages and lower prices by increasing employees' output. After three years in which he had not once seen France's anticartel laws enforced, Shaw said French enterprise is more fettered than free. His prescription: some U.S.-style "trustbusting" to dissolve restrictive cartels...
...unions before she came to TIME, twelve years ago. She learned in labor's own school of hard knocks. She handed out leaflets at the gates of industrial plants and once got roughed up on a picket line. David Dubinsky hired her as an organizer for his A.F.L. garment workers, and Sidney Hillman hired her away to write for his C.I.O. clothing workers' Advance...
Just about dinnertime, on May 11, 1941, a garment worker named Santo Caminito was picked up by New York police for the holdup-murder of Coney Island Merchant Murray Hameroff. Although Caminito had never been arrested before, the cops were sure they had their man. They set out to get a confession-and they...
Hitching up his buckskins, and with his big butcher in his belt, Disney charged into Baltimore's Federal Court and brought suit against Davy Crockett Enterprises, run by an oldtime Baltimore garment maker named Morey Schwartz. Disney charged that Schwartz was illegally licensing clothing manufacturers to use the name Davy Crockett, claiming a trademark, and was telling firms, including the more than 50 so far licensed by Disney, that he might prosecute them for using the name without his permission...