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DIED. Frances Ilg, 78, pediatrician, writer and a source of practical, research-based advice for generations of American parents; in Manitowish Waters, Wis. Ilg co-founded the Connecticut-based Gesell Institute of Child Development in 1950 and co-authored more than 20 books tracing the behavioral patterns of children from infancy through adolescence...
Although 80 per cent of ILG members are female, women remain outside the union power structure. All of the officials and most of the business agents are men. The women point out that union meetings are often held after work when they must be home cooking dinner. They add that, with the exception of the Boston section of the Northeast Department, officials and business agents are appointed--by other men. One Boston business agent has a four-syllable explanation of this: "Ability...
...these operations on an incomplete garment which is then passed to the next worker--until the piece is completed by six or seven people. At seven cents per zipper, a stitcher must put in over 36 zippers an hour to earn more than the International Ladies Garment Workers (ILG) Union minimum wage...
...Chinese are new immigrants. A third of the Boston ILG population, most of the young Chinese women are inactive in the union. Sitting together in the shops behind an impenetrable barrier of language and custom, history repeats itself as the Americanized women look down on their 'foreign' fellow workers. "Things have changed. It used to be a nicer group, but now we have the Chinese people. When I first got here there were a lot of refined people...whereas now there are a lot of people who come to this country and that's the only thing they know. Their...
...youngster may only be passing through a standard phase of development. Until now, such guidance has been reserved only for parents' with children under ten. This week, with the publication of Youth: the Years from Ten to Sixteen (Harper; $5.95), Dr. Gesell and his chief collaborators, Frances L. Ilg and Louise Bates Ames, bring the young American through adolescence to the brink of adulthood...