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...ahead of their husbands. They arrived clutching the address of relatives, moved in with them until they found jobs and an apartment, then sent for husband and children. Often, parents, brothers & sisters followed. In New York City, it was easy for the Puerto Rican woman to find a job. Garment factories valued their skilled needlework; housewives sought them as domestics...
...wave of U.S. unionization sent many a small garmentmaker seeking refuge in open-shop Dallas; soon it had an $18-million-a-year volume. It concentrated on sport clothes and other casual wear in big demand in mild-weathered outdoor-loving Texas. With World War II, the Dallas garment industry hit the big time; last year it provided jobs for 10,000 and produced a sales volume of $60 million...
...Texas, where his brother Irving was part owner of Nardis, a near-bankrupt dress firm which he wanted Benny to pull out of the red. To the horror of other Dallas garmentmakers, who are still only 20% unionized, Benny called on the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for help. I.L.G.W.U. engineers taught him an assembly-line method of making dresses. Benny not only signed a union contract but became the first Dallas manufacturer to employ Negroes. Benny's experiment was a success: from a one-shop company with 15 machines, he expanded Nardis into five plants employing...
Small Beginnings. What helped Tele King's remarkable performance was the know-how which Russian-born Louis Pokrass had developed in two previous careers. As a garment cutter in Manhattan's fiercely competitive dress industry, he had learned the importance of unit costs, and how they could be cut by mass production. As a big liquor wholesaler and distributor, he had also mastered the techniques of selling and distribution so well that he claimed to be grossing $20 million a year in 1946, when he sold out for $3,000,000. He felt well able to risk...
...they are so bold as to bring up the subject of money, Levitas tartly replies: "Don't expect to profit from the truth." To help pay for printing what he considers the truth, Levitas periodically wangles sizable cash contributions from sympathetic conservatives and such labor leaders as the garment workers' David Dubinsky...