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During Manhattan's bitter, bloody garment strike of 1913, a crowd of angry strikers hurled bricks through the windows of the Jewish Daily Forward, which was urging a settlement. Nervy, frail Editor Abraham ("Ab") Cahan, who had done as much as any man to stir the workers' rebellion against the sweatshops, came out to face the crowd. "Whose windows do tailors come to break?" he demanded. "It's just like a husband who comes home angry and fretful ... whacks the kids around and smashes dishes . . . Will he go into any other house to smash the dishes...
...Commercial Advertiser and for the New York Sun, Cahan in 1902 became editor of the then struggling Forward, which he had helped found five years before. Cahan found a paper with a picayunish circulation of 6,000, full of tedious, dust-dry Socialist polemics, written in jabberwocky that few garment workers could understand...
Retailers, whose sales had been lagging, were also taking a brighter view. In New York City's garment center last week, buyers finished ordering $200 million in fall clothes, some 10% more than they were willing to invest last year...
...murder in May 1949 of Willie Lurye, an International Ladies' Garment Workers Union organizer, was a sensational news story. Shortly after he was stabbed to death in a telephone booth in Manhattan's garment center, the union posted a $25,000 reward for the capture of his killers; a few days later, tens of thousands of garment workers joined the funeral march (TIME, May 23, 1949) as 100 New York City detectives hunted the killers. The hunt was still at its height when Columnist Walter Winchell got into the case: from a friend "on the side...
Announcing the world premiere of a union movie about a cloakmaker, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' bouncy David Dubinsky described the fictional hero: "This cloakmaker built our country no less than the people who made the railroads and the people who pioneered through the wilderness ... So our hero's name isn't Kit Carson or Daniel Boone ... So his name is Alexander Brody, and he likes to play pinochle...