Word: schlorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day employes of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. went back to work at NRA wages & hours...
...last week the plant shut down. For two days Anna Schlorer Smith shut herself up at home and brooded. Then she took a razor, slashed her throat, both wrists. A maid discovered her just in time to keep her from bleeding to death...
...Anna Schlorer helped her mother mix, bottle and label mayonnaise in the family kitchen, peddled it from door to door until midnight or later. After six years her mother formed a company and soon the mayonnaise, pickles, relishes, potato salad and other delicacies of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were famed throughout Philadelphia & vicinity...
...Anna Schlorer grew up to marry & divorce a man named Smith, inherit & run Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. with her brother Charles. They signed up promptly with NRA, got Blue Eagle No. 13 in the Philadelphia district. But when the Supreme Court shattered NRA last month the in employes of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were informed that they were going back on the old wage & hour schedules-a 50-hr., 5½-day week with pay for the 85 factory girls down from $13 to $10 per week. The employes struck...
...Anna Schlorer Smith told the Press that the company had lost $50,000 because of NRA wages & hours, was facing bankruptcy because of cut-throat competition. She warned employes that they might lose their jobs for good unless they accepted the new scale. The employes stayed...
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