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Support from the Liberal Union and Radcliffe Students for Democratic Action was requested last Friday by an International Ladies Garment Workers Union organizer...
...International Ladies Garment Workers Union began organizing at the plant a few weeks ago, signed up 85 of the 130 workers, and negotiated an agreement providing for higher wages, vacations with pay, paid holidays, and a health fund. The company then promised similar benefits to the workers, if they did not join the union...
...danger in Shaw's career was that he would become a dilettante-the famous jaeger suit, the Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers, the diabolical twist to the eyebrows and, later on, the dinner jacket into which he changed every evening during the war, when no one wore such a garment, are obdurate vestiges of dandyism. But the shocking London of the '708 was too much for the genteel and moral Irish Protestant, who had worked as an accountant and claimed to be kin to a baronet. He heard the Biblical and warlike voice of Marx. Its despotic sound...
...East is the burden of Budd Schulberg's third and best novel, The Disenchanted. As in What Makes Sammy Run? and The Harder They Fall, Schulberg has borrowed the handy, ready-to-wear drape-shape of the thriller to dress up his story. He has filled that shoddy garment with a human being whose words and acts carry a raw, boozy reek of vitality. Manley Halliday is one of the few credible portraits of a writer in recent U.S. fiction...
...hour for men's garment workers (which will probably add $8 to $10 to the price of men's suits...