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...Sweatshops" are operated mostly by small unorganized dress manufacturers known to the trade as "contractors" because they contract the disposal of their entire production to wholesale jobbers. These contractors accuse the jobbers of driving such sharp bargains, of "jewing" prices down so low, that only by sweatshop methods can the little manufacturers meet the stiff competition. They profess sympathy with their.striking employes but claim they cannot accede to their wage and time demands until the jobbers agree to cease patronizing and encouraging sweatshop contractors. The jobbers retort that they are bound to seek the best possible prices, sweatshops...
About 40, Motty Eitingon must concern himself with such problems as the supervision of a Polish subsidiary engaged in the textile industry, proper handling of a $16,000,000 fur contract with the U. S. S. R., preservation of secret dye formulas. He has, however, plenty of time for relaxation, which he divides between a home on Park Avenue, and another in Leipzig. Riding, music, are his hobbies; generosity his outstanding characteristic. To satisfy his riding urge he keeps a string of horses in Manhattan. He is said to have been the patron of the violinist Benno Rabinov. His spending...
...operate a fleet of ships to India for the Shipping Board. In 1926 he took into the company two widely known young shipping men: John M. Franklin, whose father heads International Mercantile Marine Co., and Basil Harris. The Line is now negotiating for a trans-Atlantic mail contract between Baltimore and Norfolk and Havre, Hamburg, and Bremen, which calls for five 16-knot steamships. The Roosevelt Line is thus a young man's company, and the accession of Commodore Astor emphasizes this feature. His directorship certainly means added re sources for the Roosevelt Line in its bidding...
...case before the court was that of Mrs. Alberta O'Brien, of Cambridge, against Hyman Corman as next friend of Murray Corman 1L. The claim arises out of a contract alleged to have been made by Murray, a minor, with the plaintiff for lease of store premises. At the hearing a week ago, defendant, by his counsel the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, moved to reopen a default judgment which had gone for plaintiff when the representative of the Bureau failed to file an answer for his client by reason of misinformation as to the rules of District Courts. Plaintiff...
...commanded them to present their complaints to Second Assistant Postmaster General, Warren Irving Glover (TIME, Oct. 21). Mr. Glover closely examined all the operators' books-a sight no man ever had before him. What he learned formed the basis of his superior's solution, which is: to contract with the operators for a certain amount of plane space, whether or not that space is always filled with mail, and to pay them a stated amount for every mile traveled. The base would be $1 per mile for 1,500 lb. of mail capacity. Where mail is usually small...