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...Sweatshops & Justice. Federal support of art got its start when George Biddle, now 81, an artist and Harvard law graduate, urged President Roosevelt to sponsor mural painting with a Government program similar to that in Mexico. F.D.R. was interested, but, he cautioned Biddle, he did not want "a lot of young enthusiasts painting Lenin's head on the Justice Building." Nonetheless, many of the program's finest murals contained notes of social protest. Even Biddle titled his own fresco for the Justice Building The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow...
...English theatrical couple. His parents soon separated-his mother was forced off the stage by loss of her voice, and his father was often drunk and out of work. Chaplin remembers his mother bending over a sewing machine far into the night in their garret room, sewing the sweatshop blouses that earned her 1½ pence each. He and his older brother Sydney were in and out of London's grim schools for destitute children. Although Charlie first appeared on the stage at the age of five, his life began to improve only at eight when his father...
...ghetto. Her father, a tailor, decided to send his children one by one to "the golden land," and when Polly was twelve she arrived in America with everything she had in the world slung over her shoulder in a potato sack. At 16 she was working in a Brooklyn sweatshop. At 18 she was raped, or so she claimed. At 21 she became a madam by mistake...
...ORGANIZER. Marcello Mastroianni is perfect as a scraggly 19th century revolutionary in this timeless, beautifully photographed, warmly human drama about workers who strike against sweatshop living in a Turin textile mill...
...real freedom is beyond price, and is not something one bargains away for monetary gain. Yet long ago we gave up the "freedom" of sweatshop labor in return for the greater freedom that accompanies a higher level of living. Our farm policy is designed to preserve the one freedom without which individual enterprise cannot survive in farming-the freedom to earn an income comparable to earnings elsewhere in our economy-the freedom to earn enough to sustain an American standard of living...