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...strike started when 16 female button sewers at a Hart Schaffner & Marx factory, earning $3 to $8 a week, walked out over a 4? reduction in piecework pay. (One of the 16 strikers was round-faced, Russian-born Bessie Abramovitz, whom Hillman later married.) For three weeks, more & more workers left their sweatshops until the 16 strikers had become 41,000. Each night there were meetings, usually at Hull House, addressed by Welfare Worker Jane Addams, Lawyer Clarence Darrow, and the strike leaders...
...Russian-born Writer Maurice Hindus saw "a long column of captured Germans shuffling along. . . . Unwashed, unshaven and ragged, they barely dragged their feet over the dusty, rutted ground. Among them was a lieutenant colonel. 'We had no food, no ammunition,' he said. 'Our position was hopeless.' Yet all around I saw large stores of German ammunition. It lay in neatly arranged tiers, sometimes camouflaged . . . sometimes as open as the fields...
Joseph Barondess, one of the Founding Fathers (in 1900) of the I.L.G.W.U. A Russian-born Jew, the son of a family of rabbis, Barondess endeared himself to needle trades proletarians by his "golden voice," "hypnotic powers over an audience," his habit of "quoting the Bible in the manner of a cultivated freethinker." He spent "the last decade of his life as an insurance agent, selling policies to the workers in the needle trades...
...agents found that there were plans to unload, on the unsuspicious and in expert, some 5,120,000 gasoline ration "A" stamps, representing 15,360,000 gallons, and 1,560,000 shoe coupons, representing as many pairs of shoes. They arrested the printing shop proprietors, naturalized, Russian-born Harry Dubitsky, and naturalized, Austrian-born Max Spiegel, who had tangled with the law once before (1926) as a printer of indecent literature...
Latest dissident to disturb the art world's prevailing respect for the Museum's taste and influence is Russian-born Sculptor Alexander Archipenko. Archipenko is preparing a book entitled Why I Request to Remove My Works from the Museum of Modern Art. He declines to reveal his reasons until his book is on the counters...