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...most recent crime was committed at Paterson, N. J., last fall, when a strike of silk-workers in that municipality was in full swing. The strikers invited Mr. Baldwin to address them in their hall. Chief of Police Tracey vetoed the invitation, closed the hall. Undaunted, Mr. Baldwin-whose headquarters are the American Civil Liberties Union, Manhattan-came to town, marched with speechless strikers to the City Hall. "Go for 'em! Break 'em up!" cried a lusty policeman. "I am reading the Bill of Rights"* was all a striker could utter before a police sergeant shoved him from...
...which has been quoted by Mr. Smythe as having done "untold harm" to Franklin's character. "The story as it a commonly conceived," he said, "is on the face of it extremely fanciful. The picture of the old man standing out in the rain and wind with a small silk kite, which has been one of the favorite subjects of patriotic artists, is not at all accurate. If such an experiment were really handled in that fashion the experimenter would, in all probability be promptly killed...
There has also been a rapid development by manufacturers of the methods employed in spinning and weaving artificial silk fibre, and consequently in the appearance and wearing qualities of artificial silk fabrics. Formerly, fibre silk was used mainly for hosiery, which absorbed half this country's annual output. So widely has the demand for fibre silk spread, that today hosiery makers use only about one-fifth of the U. S.-made fibre silk...
Originally, a British producer controlled this country's artificial silk output through possession of basic patents. In 1920, these patents ran out; and since that time, the U. S. fibre-silk business has experienced an enormous expansion...
...Artificial silk is made either of wood pulp or of linters (the tiny ends of cotton formerly wasted). The manufacturers of artificial silk have united on Rayon as a general trade name for the product...