Word: sweatshop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Assistant Antitrust Chief Robert Bicks said: "It would be a perversion of our function to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' unions. The question is whether unions are violating the Sherman Act." I.L.G.W.U. President David Dubinsky, who has fought hard and with distinction against sweatshop operators and racketeers in the garment industry, charged that the prosecution of only one of his 500-odd locals was "a frontal attack by the Republican Administration against basic safeguards won on the picket line and across the negotiating table over the last six decades...
Born 71 years ago in a small town in Bessarabia, Bronstein grew up as an Orthodox Jew. He came to the U.S. at 22 to work in a Baltimore sweatshop with his brothers, began to take free English lessons at a Baptist church. Soon he was reading the New Testament as well as the Old. One day he came home and told his young Russian wife that the Messiah had come and that his name was Jesus. She was horrified, contemplated divorce. "Next day, after his father came home from the synagogue," says she. "I told...
...work as long as they can get away with it. Under this kind of reasoning we should also abolish the federal minimum wage law [under which the minimum is 75? an hour]. If Judge Holtzoff's philosophy prevails, we shall have taken a long step backward toward the sweatshop and the slums...
...make about half his take-was cut at least in half. The same problem met Dumbo and Bambi. Meanwhile, Disney had his famous strike. Whatever the rights of the affair-Walt maintained that he was being persecuted by the Communists, the union leaders said he was running a sweatshop-Walt handled it badly and lost the decision gracelessly. The studio was closed down for two weeks. Except for the war, it would probably have closed down for good. For the next four years the U.S. paid Disney's bills while he made educational and propaganda films. On the side...
...functions which the state government performs. Further I will do all that I can to help textile companies and textile unions agree on a basis for remaining in Massachusetts rather than hindering them. I will also encourage labor standards in other states which will not undercut Massachusetts industry with sweatshop conditions...