Word: hochman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dress manufacturing shops, who make nearly 75% of U. S. dresses. Last December the union and five trade associations began negotiating a new contract to replace one signed in 1939. To the council table went the D. J. B.'s top man, husky, dimple-chinned Julius Hochman, with a surprise he had been hatching for months in his iron-grey head...
Instead of demanding more pay or shorter hours, Hochman merely asked the manufacturers to do two things dear to every manufacturer's heart: run their business more efficiently and make more money. Hochman's theory: the union already had a 35-hour week and adequate pay minimums; how well its members prospered in the future depended on how well their industry fared...
Pointing to these facts & figures, Hochman told the manufacturers bluntly that the union was sick of the waste and inefficiency they tolerated. Workers (paid piece rates) sat around idly waiting for materials to arrive, antiquated machinery to be repaired, incompetent foremen to route work to them. Until merchandising was improved, U. S. women would continue to spend less for dresses than for stockings and underwear (average annual purchase: two street dresses). What Hochman wanted was busy plants, busy workmen, manufacturers who understood cost accounting, kept overhead down, prospered...
...steps toward his goal, Hochman had three concrete ideas: 1) a $1,500,000-a- year promotion fund (the union offered to contribute, $100,000) to plug dresses and Manhattan's claim to Paris' old title of world's fashion centre; 2) establishment of a school of management, staffed by experts who would teach the manufacturers how to operate without waste; 3) an "efficiency clause" giving the union the right to demand good' management and penalizing employers, who failed to provide...
Labor was first to explode publicly. Said Julius Hochman, general manager of potent I.L.G.W.U.'s Dress Joint Board (at a conference of labor and employers last week): "She insulted both our industry and the American women. . . . Unfortunately our industry is not organized sufficiently to meet such slurs, and there was no one to reply to this impudent insult." But there...