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...value. Unfortunately they can not be bound in pastel-pink ribbons, and filed away as neatly as love letters. Hungry moths and avid vermin are too liable to corrupt such earthly treasures. Hence they often pad the maws of ashcans and end their usefulness in dumps. For a cherished garment or a much-thumbed book, that fate is bitter. Far better to fling both clothes and texts, with a gesture of sublime extravagance, into the eager coffers of the Brooks House Old Clothes Drive which are secreted in the janitor's office and library of each House...
...Manhattan, 32,000 A.F. of L. dressmakers struck for two days, returned to work when WLB agreed to hear the demand of 85,000 garment workers for an increase...
...were enticed away from their typewriters long enough to go down to the Indoor Athletic Building and scoop the labor men by a score of 28 to 20. Starring for the Union men were Ray Frisch another mad hatter, and "Two Way Stretch" Pfeffer from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. The outstanding players for the journalists were "Scooper" Ethridge, former college star, and "Copy...
...Left. In an earlier day he belonged to the same firebrand company as Emma Goldman and the I.W.W. His voice was raised in a long array of newspapers, of which the last was Il Martello (The Hammer). He campaigned in the Pennsylvania coal fields, in Manhattan's garment district. He scrapped with Communists, but above all with Fascists. Yet no one who met the man face to face, who sat down with him and a bottle of red wine at a restaurant table, could help liking him. Personally his enemies seemed few. Politically they were legion...
...important first steps were taken in preliminary conversations designed to explore the possibilities of the idea. These conversations, in late November and early December, 1941, were held with a few heads of international unions, including President Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, President Zaritzky, of the Hatters' Union, President Brown of the Electrical Worker's Union, and other prominent labor leaders. It was revealed through these conversations that union leaders had been giving careful consideration to the problems of developing trained executives and that their ideas were, in many respects, far advanced...