LABOR: Limbs

In a campaign to get more hosiery manufacturers to put the union label on silk stockings, the American Federation of Hosiery Workers (C. I. O.) last week featured a full-page advertisement in the Knit Goods Weekly, showing Hollywood Star Jean Parker, sleek limbs sheathed in stockings stamped with the union label. The caption: Movie Stars Demand Hosiery Union Label. (Actresses June Lang, Arleen Whelan will decorate future ads in other trade journals.)

From A. F. H. W. offices in Philadelphia to the trade press also went free contributions of cartoons, jingles. Samples: 1) A studious-looking, bespectacled girl wearing a...

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