Etown History: Knitters get modern
Elizabethtown Chronicle - July 6 2006
Experienced workers at the shoe factories in Elizabethtown made a decent wage in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, but the knitters who operated the knitting machines at Classic Hosiery made three times as much money. In the 1930s a skilled leather cutter at A.S. Kreider Shoe Co. made about $25 a week, but a knitter made about $75 a week. [more]
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