Word: silkmen
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...Japanese silkmen had to change their ways drastically. Their prewar silk fabric was imperfectly woven, poorly dyed, usable only for cheap kimonos, etc. U.S. dressmakers rarely used Japan's silks, preferring the higher quality fabrics of European weavers...
...silk stockings wear out continually so that even a temporary buyers' strike is next to impossible. So by last week raw silk cost U. S. hosiers as much as $3.55½ a nine-year peak price, up nearly $1 since August, up $1.75 since December. U. S. silkmen were full of confusion, distress, suspicion. Many a silkman was caught in short positions by a sudden, savage shortage. Some types of silk were not to be had at any price...
...branches of the textile industry," stated Sidney Hillman's Textile Workers Organizing Committee in a memorandum explaining the strike, "silk is the most chaotic." That chaos, as most silkmen know, has been the result of an unintegrated industry composed of a few large mills and myriads of minuscule establishments, some of them no more than family shops. The industry's average silk plant has only 68 workers (compared with 296 in cotton mills, 236 in woolens). Shops open and close overnight. And of late a new jobster has cropped up called the converter-an individual or company, often...
...week for air-curious business leaders of the New York area who had never had a ride in an airplane. At Valley Stream, L. I., hummed expectantly the Company's Ford trimotor. In squads it engulfed intrepid New York businessmen -rubbermen, pianomen, bankers, food-men, hatters, bakers, milkmen, silkmen- took them up, showed them over Manhattan, brought them down, five tons landing softly...
...tariff, there would appear to be no limit to the willingness or power of the Government to give Cheneys and others the rates they need. But in this respect, silkmen cannot agree among themselves. Not alone did Vice President Horace Cheney represent the Silk Association of America before the House Ways & Means Committee at Washington. A. P. Stapfer was also there. Mr. Cheney suggested rates double those of 1909. But Mr. Stapfer suggested reduced rates on georgettes, crepe de chines, flat crepes. Reason: the Cheney group is exclusively manufacturing; the Stapfer group both manufactures and imports; and yet a third...