Word: milliken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous, the indefatigable Malvina accepted commissions for the monument to English-American friendship at Bush House, London; 104 life-size studies for the Races of Man series at Chicago's Natural History Museum; the American War Memorial at Epinal, France; a flagpole for IBM; a road marker for Milliken Mills. Now 80, she tells all about everything in this book of leisurely, ladylike reminiscences. To judge from the illustrations, the style of her sculpture is public monument modern. To judge from this book, Author Hoffman thinks that her life as a Murray Hill bohemian has been interesting and imagines...
...Absolute Prerogative." In 1956 the union tackled South Carolina's Darlington Manufacturing Co., one of 27 mills and 17 companies making up a combine called Deering Milliken & Co. Manhattan Textileman Roger Milliken argued bitterly that union wages would sink Darlington, which he said was already in the red. By a margin of six votes, the union won the right to represent Darlington's 550 workers. Milliken immediately closed the plant, a move that depressed the town (pop. 7,000) and crippled the union's entire Southern campaign. Textile manufacturers festooned the region with bumper stickers that warned...
...National Labor Relations Board condemned the closing as an illegal tactic born of Roger Milliken's "antiunion animus" and aimed at curbing unionism among Deering Milliken's 19,000 other employees. The board ordered back pay (now an estimated $12 million), minus interim earnings, for Darlington's fired workers until they found equivalent jobs. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond refused to enforce the NLRB order. The court said that Darlington had an "absolute prerogative" to quit business in whole or part at any time it wished. Having thus fairly ended the employment relationship, ruled...
...Senator representing a private client against the U.S. Government-to say nothing of the fact that Ervin's constituents include thousands of North Carolina textile workers. Ervin, however, insisted that he was "fighting for the economic freedom of all Americans." He told the Court not to fret over Milliken's motive for closing his plant, quoted I Samuel 16:07: "God judgeth not as man judgeth, for man looketh upon external appearance, but God judgeth upon the heart...
...Darlington itself, Harlan ordered the NLRB to further probe "the purpose and effect" of the closing in relation to the combine's other workers. He left open for future review by the lower court the board's finding that Darlington was an integral part of Deering Milliken. Although this may yet bring the case back to the Supreme Court, the union joyously hailed the Darlington decision as a Waterloo for "large union-busting textile complexes in the South," which "can no longer play musical chairs with workers' lives and the welfare of textile communities...