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...Francisco's Chinatown. Chinatown is the only part of labor-minded San Francisco without labor unions. Chinese remember what the old-line labor movement thought of them, are afraid they would be replaced with whites if they were paid the same wages. The best wages of any garment factory in Chinatown have been Joe Shoong's-$13.33 a week...
Into Chinatown last autumn went an organizer for lively International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, before long organized in Joe Shoong's factory the union's first Chinese local. A National Labor Relations Board election in January established it as sole bargaining agent. Negotiations started. Two weeks later Joe Shoong sold the factory to his foreman Joe Sun and another Chinese. The union thought he had acted in bad faith and its members walked...
...evening last week a show was staged in the White House. In the East Room, from 7 to 8 p. m., President & Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt of the U. S., President & Mrs. David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union and a few other guests watched a "command performance" of Pins & Needles, the I. L. G. W. U. show that has become a Broadway hit (TIME...
Pins & Needles. The Ladies' Garment Workers' crisp satirical revue-a kind of I'd Rather Be Left (TIME...
Everyone in San Antonio knows about little Emma Tenayuca, a slim, vivacious labor organizer with black eyes and a Red philosophy. She first shone in her native city a year ago during a garment strike, has been at the forefront of most of its civil commotions since. With San Antonio's police chief, she carries on a feud which has landed her in jail on countless occasions. Among the Spanish-speaking San Antonio proletariat, she is known as "La Pasionaria de Texas." Since her husband, Homer Brooks, former Communist nominee for Governor of Texas, lives in Houston, their marital...