Word: schaffner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ALVIN SCHAFFNER...
...Labor's representative on the Defense Commission, the onetime cutter for Hart Schaffner & Marx had his job cut out for him. In the beginning Management distrusted him instinctively because he was a Labor leader. A. F. of L. distrusted him because he belonged to C. I. 0. The left wing of C. I. O. distrusted him because he was for peace and moderation. On June 12, Hillman took office...
...Jewish merchant. He studied to be a rabbi, got too close to a workers' movement, spent ten months in jail, finally fled Russia for England. From there he migrated to Chicago, worked for 18 months as a clerk, got a job as an apprentice cutter with Hart Schaffner & Marx which paid, after three years, $11 a week. A strike at the plant plunged him into labor struggles. In 1914 he became first president of an infant Amalgamated Clothing Workers, has been president ever since. He was one of the insurgents, with John Lewis and Phil Murray, who broke with...