Word: schaffner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoever credits "the old clothing company" [Hart Schaffner & Marx] referred...
...credit to Brooks Brothers, swank old Manhattan retailers. Hart Schaffner & Marx's records were set for the wholesale clothing trade...
Will you save a man from the wrath of his relatives? In your story under Business & Finance headed "Hart, Schaffner, Marx & Hillman" (TIME, April 19), you say regarding myself, "He is ashamed of one of his doughty ancestors who was tried for 'inhuman activities' in the form of scalping an Indian...
...time Joseph Schaffner's recognition of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers was no less spectacular. Any dealings with unions were regarded, particularly in Chicago, as little short of treason. In 1910 the whole clothing trade was in the midst of bloody strikes, the Hart Schaffner & Marx workers being led by Sidney Hillman. With a sharp sense of the value of goodwill and a social conscience so precocious that even before the War he was speaking of the employer as the workers' trustee, Joseph Schaffner decided to experiment in industrial democracy...
...fully 25 years," testified Sidney Hillman last week, after cheerfully admitting that he was a pretty poor cutter, "the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and Hart Schaffner & Marx cooperated in a labor-management relationship that was not only steady, unbroken and progressive, but also mutually beneficial. . . . Let us remember that these 25 years abounded in major disturbances, depressions, war and prosperity. . . . And so American industrialists may well look to this record of uninterrupted, regulated industrial relationship, with not a single strike or otherwise upsetting disorder, as a harbinger of what the future has in store for us if only...