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Strikes in the nation's silk mills usually raise a far louder racket than the whirring spindles and clattering shuttles which stop because of them. Feuds between employe and employer have almost always been bitter, sometimes bloody. Ever since last May, when energetic little Sidney Hillman, able, Lithuanian-born chief of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (TIME, April 19), commenced drawing textile workers into C. I. O., signing up man after man in mill after mill, many a bystander wondered what would happen to whom when Mr. Hillman chose to call a strike, 1937 model. Last week, in throwing & weaving...
...branches of the textile industry," stated Sidney Hillman's Textile Workers Organizing Committee in a memorandum explaining the strike, "silk is the most chaotic." That chaos, as most silkmen know, has been the result of an unintegrated industry composed of a few large mills and myriads of minuscule establishments, some of them no more than family shops. The industry's average silk plant has only 68 workers (compared with 296 in cotton mills, 236 in woolens). Shops open and close overnight. And of late a new jobster has cropped up called the converter-an individual or company, often...
Before the strike was five days old the new Silk & Rayon Manufacturers Association, at the start representing some 60 manufacturers employing 10,000 workers and "increasing daily," sat down in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, invited Mr. Hillman to come in for a chat. What went on inside neither Labor's Hillman nor the Association's Attorney & Organizer David Cole would say, but the conference was followed by another next day. And from this session, which lasted until 2 a. m., Mr. Hillman emerged with a smile on his face and a contract in his pocket. First step...
...onetime State Supreme Court Justice (he resigned in 1928 to return to private practice), honest Jeremiah Mahoney, now 62, big-framed and firm-jawed, has made few enemies among New York politicians, has the confusing advantage of being himself a potent member of Tammany Hall and leader of its silk-stockinged 15th District. Outside politics, Judge Mahoney is currently best known as president of the Amateur Athletic Union, to which he was re-elected last year after he had urged that the U. S. send no athletes to the Olympic Games in Berlin (TIME...
...Britain's sedate Bath, famed for its "waters," silk-bearded Haile Selassie, former Emperor of Ethiopia, has long been in exile working studiously on his memoirs. By last week the memoirs were nearly finished; arrangements had been made for their publication. Suddenly Publisher Michael Joseph announced that the Emperor had been "compelled" to forego publication on orders of his "political advisers." London wiseacres nodded significantly; it would be a great embarrassment to the Government to find public opinion being whipped up for an Emperor who might at any moment be declared officially throneless...