Word: wilmington
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cent of the colored people here work in one of the two plants. Just now there is a strong movement to unionize the Campbell's plant, which offers, as its maximum wage for skilled laborers, $1.90 an hour. (An unskilled laborer who works across the Chester River in Wilmington, Del., can earn around $2.40 an hour; a skilled worker at Campbell's unionized Camden plant earns around...
...Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., $350,000; Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., Tuckahoe, N.Y., $329,058; Ames Co. Inc., Elkhart, Ind., $302,162; Baxter Laboratories Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., $208,078; Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis, $178,980; Kendall Co., Boston, $159,323; Richardson-Merrill, Greensboro, N.C., $155,000; Atlas Chemical Industry, Wilmington, $149,282; Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Hanover, N.J., $137,260. Under...
...cent of the colored people here work in one of the two plants. Just now there is a strong movement to unionize the Campbell's plant which offers, as its maximum wage for skilled laborers, $1.90 an hour. (An unskilled laborer who works across the Chester River in Wilmington Del. can earn around $2.40 an hour; a skilled worker at Campbell's unionized Camdem plant earns around...
...deeply dependant upon the white community for economic security. Right after the sit-ins the colored community did manage to organize a boycott of all stores in town which do not employ Negroes. The only hitch was that after a week or so people grew weary of shopping in Wilmington and informally dissolved the boycott, having gained nothing...
MARGARET A. GIBSON Wilmington...