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...Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was asked if she did not regard the domestic labor situation as critical. Sniffed she: "If I did, I would not be leaving." In Washington, meanwhile, Artist George Biddle put finishing touches on his fresco for the new Department of Justice Building called: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. Some 600 feet square, Artist Biddle's didactic mural is filled with the portraits of real people. One of them, a sweatshop seamstress in a smock (see cut) has the face of Madam Secretary Perkins...
...Department of Justice Building in Washington last week another fresco panel was being finished in the lobby adjoining the Attorney General's office. The work of George Biddle, it boasted the longest title of any Government mural: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. In it are the figures of dozens of faithful minors in the New Deal. The mural's "ideal workman" has the face of Artist Biddle's brother Francis, onetime Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross...
...months ago Fox discovered that she was excellent adult entertainment in the otherwise mediocre Stand Up And Cheer. Immediately Paramount borrowed her for Little Miss Marker. While this picture was proving a thumping box office success all over the country. Fox ground out Baby, Take a Bow. For the sweatshop pace which has pushed Shirley Temple through an average year's work in four months they had a good business-like reason: growing children shoot overnight into gangling youngsters...
...good than you think. I was offered an hacienda in the State of Queretaro only last year, agricultural workers included, with the understanding I need pay the more skilled workers 60 centavos a day, the unskilled only 40. And I dare say even these would top some of the sweatshop paychecks in depression New York. MARION LAY Mexico City...
...Bryn Mawr, Secretary of Labor Perkins predicted the Recovery Act would "outlaw the sweatshop...