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Opposed to the bill were representatives of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, who claimed that it would not limit protection only to original designs, but would make U. S. merchants liable to infringement charges on every household necessity, on every garment sold...
Demands of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: abolition of 1,500 "sweatshops"; 10% wage increase; a 40-hour, five-day week; an impartial commission to settle disputes; unemployment insurance. Well heeled was the Union for this walkout; last summer it sold $250,000 worth of 5% strike bonds...
...last week New York dressmaking was at a standstill, but New York dressmakers were not so. Shortly after they began picketing the garment center there were numerous riots and arrests, and one Jacob Rothenberg, open shop manufacturer, died from a fractured skull, having been knocked down on the street. Friends claimed he had been intentionally attacked. To Albany went representatives of strikers and employers to confer with Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lieutenant...
Anne Morgan, sister of John Pierpont Morgan, attending a meeting at the American Woman's Association's Manhattan clubhouse, hung her $3,000 baby lamb coat in the hall, returned to find a shabby fur garment in its place...
...shrilled and banged from the oriental instruments of an outlandish procession. First on a white charger rode Pandit Motilal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, followed by 20 elephants magnificently caparisoned. Next came famed Mahatma Gandhi, a wizened, self-starved little saint, wearing as his only garment a skimpy loin cloth?indisputably the most adored and potent man in India...