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The company at the center of the controversy is affiliated with the great chinese american sewing company and maker of plain jane brand clothes for women workers. At a spree decor is Washington street plant on the third floor of a chinatown building, complained of working conditions and

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low pay and tried to organize the company shut down, giving economic reasons. The international ladies garment workers union claims it was aimed at the effort to unionize the workers and is pressing an unfair labor practices complaint with the government. Meanwhile, the would be union members now

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out of jobs are getting at least moral support from some of the top labor leaders in the city, including Jack Crowley, head of the SAN Francisco Labor Council rally, speakers urged workers inside to come out and join them, but apparently none did. The non union workers

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were able to leave and enter the building throughout the rally without incident. Al Dale eyewitness news saN Francisco.