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...insurgents who put up the men (Steel Workers Organizing Committee) and money ($500,000 as a starter) to organize Steel. To be depended on for good general advice were such Steel Workers Organizing Committeemen as Julius Hochman, Socialist vice president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers which vainly supported the 1919 steel strike with $60,000; rough & ready Socialist Leo Krzycki of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, another big industrial union, which contributed $100,000 to the same strike; Lee Pressman, "purged" from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1934, who had joined the committee as counsel. President Van A. Bittner...
...International Typographical Union; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; International Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers; International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers...
...Manhattan fortnight ago President David Dubinsky of the huge Ladies' Garment Workers' Union publicly renounced his membership in the Socialist Party, declared himself for President Roosevelt. Last week the progressive American Federation of Hosiery Workers fell in step with its 60,000 members. Convening in Philadelphia, delegates approved (113-to-47) a resolution that "wage-earners have no other practical alternative than to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Presidential election...
...Henry Ford will be surprised at that statement, having led the way to establishment of one of the greatest of American industries by reducing costs and putting out a low-priced car within the reach of almost anyone with a job. So will the radio industry, the ready-made garment industry and all business men who have participated in building up the great consumer industries by getting their prices down within reach of the average pocketbook...
...dingy room in Manhattan's garment district last week a skilled knitting-machine operator, brought in by his employer, inspected a strange new device. He pushed a lever. The loom began to clank as tiny lights winked on a control box attached to the wall. Red, blue and yellow threads spun off their spools, were knitted into an intricately patterned fabric. The puzzled operator peered over, beneath and behind the row of darting needles, looking for a chain of perforated cards. There were no cards. Enthusiastic demonstrators of this new robot, called the Lefier machine, claimed that...