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...says Lillian Gallagher, 41, a British housewife who earns $50 a week as a packer at the Japanese-owned Y.K.K. zipper plant in Runcorn, 18 miles from Liverpool. Hers is a rare testimonial in Britain, where labor and management often seem less interested in pulling their weight than tearing each other apart. Yet in Runcorn the prevailing spirit is "All the way with Y.K.K."-the corporate initials of Yoshida, the Japanese firm that is the world's biggest zipper manufacturer...
Meanwhile, Japan's YKK Zipper Co. has almost completed a $15 million factory in Macon, Ga., and to give it a touch of home the company will fill the grounds with 2,000 cherry trees. Japanese Developer Tsuguto Kitano has bought Manhattan's Murray Hotel, renamed it after himself, and will open for business next month. Kikkoman Shoya Co. opened a $9,000,000 soy sauce plant last week in Walworth, Wis. Japan's widely diversified Mitsui has revised its former policy of seeking export markets in the U.S. and is now shopping for new American properties...
MAKING THE CLOTHES that others wear is tiring, tedious, noisy work. A piece of clothing in a garment factory is divided into units of work: zippers, belts, seams, sleeves, button holes, facings. A worker performs one of these operations on an incomplete garment which is then passed to the next worker--until the piece is completed by six or seven people. At seven cents per zipper, a stitcher must put in over 36 zippers an hour to earn more than the International Ladies Garment Workers (ILG) Union minimum wage...
...these shop conditions don't stop the women from joking. "Yes, we have a good boss. He allows us to take coffee breaks...on our own time." Another worker lampooned her boss's attitude in the bitter haggling over two and a half cents more for a difficult zipper: "Every day the boss tells us he's going out of business...
...Released by the Viet Cong in 1971, Sexton had never heard of Women's Lib, miniskirts or unisex. "When he went into a shop for some clothes and saw a girl buying from the same rack-it was a unisex shop, and she was buying pants with a zipper up the front-he just walked right out again...