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The description is unfair. Mr. King never intended to be a politician. He gave up law for social science, studied at Hull House under Jane Addams. Sir Wilfred Laurier made him over into a politician. In a tough game Mr. King became as tough as any of them.
The strike started when 16 female button sewers at a Hart Schaffner & Marx factory, earning $3 to $8 a week, walked out over a 4? reduction in piecework pay. (One of the 16 strikers was round-faced, Russian-born Bessie Abramovitz, whom Hillman later married.) For three weeks, more & more...
In this one, A. & C. are a couple of loony candid cameramen. There are such howls as Costello's emergence from a garbage can during a bank stickup. Says he: "What's a bank got to be stuck up about?" Then there is the uproarious moment when the...
Hull House's founder, Jane Addams, in the 19th Century spirit, believed in the social adjustment and education of the alien poor. Miss Carr thought that times had changed, that organization and political pressure were now the best ways for slum dwellers to better their lot.
She deliberately tried to make Hull House take a back seat in the affairs of the Halsted Street slums. "The very job of a settlement is to keep putting itself out of business," she announced, to the horror of Hull House traditionalists who not only wanted to keep the place...