Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odor of fresh-baked bread lured Dr. Edward Deming Andrews into a Shaker colony at Hancock, Mass. There & then (1920) he began collecting Shaker art. Last week, in two big rooms in the Berkshire Museum at Pittsfield, Mass, his collection, the most complete in the U. S., was put on view...
...Virgil Kinney Hancock, noted Seattle obstetrician, began to try irradiation on hopeless streptococcic and staphylococcic bloodstream infections, with great success. Several years later, he was followed by Drs. Elmer William Rebbeck of Pittsburgh and Henry Alfred Barrett of Manhattan. Last year, after they told him of several thousand successful cases, Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital began to put in full time on irradiation, working up case histories, preparing careful fever charts, blood-count tables...
Promptly, fellow members of A. F. H. W. put the cooperative on its "unfair list," picketed it. Said they: "The union has to defend its wage scale, even against its own members." Said the Hancock officers: "If we do, we've got to go out of business." Fuming unhappily, Gus Geiges and other old union men were forced into the great labor sin of crossing the picket line. Union members, picketed by their fellows, continued to knit away inside Hancock. At week's end the situation was taken into bickering conference...
...machinery in Westmoreland's dingy red-brick building grew old, became outmoded. Last summer Interstate closed the mill. Faced with joblessness, the 500 employes decided to take it over, run it as a cooperative. They borrowed on their homes, cars, signed quick notes, and incorporated as the Hancock Knitting Mills...
Peace came, but more by good luck than good management. The cooperative agreed to return to its wage scale. What brought about the agreement was another windfall: a big pending order for Hancock. Gus Geiges, eyes on the bright horizon, predicted that all 500 owners would be back to work in their plant by April...