Livin' in Luxury -- Joseph & Feiss !
(David P.)
JOSEPH & FEISS CO., an important part
of Cleveland's garment industry, came
from Meadville, PA, in 1845 as Koch &
Loeb and set up a wholesale clothing
store at 82 Superior St. The firm, run
by Kaufman Koch, sold a general line of
men's and boys clothing as well as piece
goods to tailors. The company also sold
its own brand of clothes, but manufac-
turing was contracted out to small
ethnic shops. When the company began
an internal manufacturing operation in
1897, the small shops were absorbed and
their proprietors were employed as
foremen and operators. After changing
partners several times, the firm
stabilized as Joseph & Feiss Co. in 1907.
Isaac and Moritz Joseph and Julius Feiss
guided the business as it outgrew its
location at 642-702 St. Clair St. and
moved to a new factory at 2149 W 53rd St.
in 1920, the year the firm incorporated.
Under its "Clothcraft" brand name, Joseph
& Feiss heavily advertised its $15 blue
serge suit as the "Model T" of the clothing
industry, which provided a steady base of
sales for the company until 1925. The
company improved efficiency by intro-
ducing new methods, machines & scientific
management to improve its production and
to cut costs. The company was unionized
in Mar 1934 when the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America organized some 1,800
Joseph & Feiss workers after a brief
strike. Union & management then negotiated
a 10% wage increase for the workers.
In subsequent decades, the company
diversified its lines of clothing.
Joseph & Feiss merged with Phillips-
Van Heusen Corp. in 1966 but retained
its name and Cleveland operations, where
it continued to produce and sell tailored
men's apparel under the Cricketeer and
Country Britches label. In 1980 it added
tailored clothes for women to its line.
Joseph & Feiss was acquired by Hugo Boss
AG, a West German clothing and accessory
firm, in 1989 and was made a division of
its subsidiary, T.J.F.C. Inc. of New York.
In 1995 the company had 800 workers in
the Cleveland area & plants on W 53rd St,
Tiedeman Rd., and a distribution center
on Tiedeman Rd. The company also operated
an outlet store at its W 53rd St location.
The following year, facing stiff competition
from lower-priced imports and a growing
acceptance among Americans for casual
clothing, Joseph & Feiss annouced that
it would be discontinuing production of
its Cricketeer and Country Britches labels
and laying off over 200 workers. In 1997,
Joseph & Feiss moved its remaining manu-
facturing operations from its W. 53rd St.
plant to its distribution ctr on Tiedeman
Road in Brooklyn. Joseph & Feiss, and its
nearly 450 employees, continues to produce
suits, sport coats, and slacks for the
upscale Hugo Boss brand. Joseph & Feiss's
departure left vacant the massive facility
on W. 53rd St. Within six months of the
move, however, they sold the property to
Ameri-Con Homes, a Beachwood homebuilder
for $100,000. In 2000, Cleveland's planning
Commission gain initial approval to
Ameri-Con's plan to transform the old
factory into 60 condominiums. The developer
would also construct 90 townhomes, modeled
after one-hundred year old worker's cottages,
on the remainder of the 8 acre site. Prices
for the residences would range from $109,000
to $180,000.
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Libby Loo
"(David P.)" <imb...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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(David P.)
> "(David P.)" <imb...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > JOSEPH & FEISS CO., an important part
> > of Cleveland's garment industry, came
> > from Meadville, PA, in 1845 as Koch &
> > Loeb and set up a wholesale clothing
>
> [nothing]
The big picture includes everything & everybody,
past present & future, as far as you can see.
If you can't see very far, fore or aft, what does
that say about any opinion you might have?
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Libby Loo
"(David P.)" <imb...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> when I slam my scrotum...
you obviously aren't slamming hard enough
(David P.)
Kent Paul Dolan <xanth...@well.com> wrote:
> (David P.) wrote:
> > The big picture includes everything & everybody,
> > past present & future, as far as you can see.
> > If you can't see very far, fore or aft, what does
> > that say about any opinion you might have?
>
> vision is merely your peephole narrow-mindedness
> vision. You can't see any reality but the one that
> obsesses you, and that one has no contact with the
> universe in which the rest of us live.
“the life of man, solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish, and short”
Hobbes finds three basic causes of the
conflict in this state of nature:
competition, diffidence and glory,
The first maketh men invade for gain;
the second, for safety; and the third,
for reputation. His first law of nature
is that that every man ought to endeavour
peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining
it; and when he cannot obtain it, that he
may seek and use all helps and advantages
of war. In the state of nature, every man
has a right to every thing, even to one
another's body but the second law is that,
in order to secure the advantages of peace,
that a man be willing, when others are so
too… to lay down this right to all things;
and be contented with so much liberty
against other men as he would allow other
men against himself. This is the beginning
of contracts/covenants; performing of which
is the third law of nature. Injustice,
therefore, is failure to perform in a
covenant; all else is just.
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Libby Loo
"(David P.)" <imb...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> my identical twin is really stupid and ugly
he wouldn't be suicidal too, would he?
(David P.)
Kent Paul Dolan <xanth...@well.com> wrote:
> (David P.) wrote:
> > Kent Paul Dolan <xanth...@well.com> wrote:
> >> (David P.) wrote:
>
> >>> The big picture includes everything & everybody,
> >>> past present & future, as far as you can see.
> >>> If you can't see very far, fore or aft, what
> >>> does that say about any opinion you might have?
> >>
> >> Sadly for you, what you think is your "big
> >> picture" vision is merely your peephole
> >> narrow-mindedness vision.
> >
> > and short"
>
> that you understand them.
Here is the important part:
… to lay down this right to all things;
and be contented with so much liberty
against other men as he would allow other
men against himself.
It's the Golden Rule, and enacting death control
would institutionalize the Golden Rule in operation
across generations! (I've told you this dozens of
times) I think people would be more likely to
get the message that way.
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(David P.)
Kent Paul Dolan <xanth...@well.com> wrote:
> (David P.) wrote:
>
> > It's the Golden Rule,
>
> single day. You going all smarmy and mealy mouthed
> in favor of the golden rule *when it suits your
> cause* doesn't overcome the simple fact that you
> DON'T BELIEVE IN THE GOLDEN RULE YOURSELF and you
> DON'T BELIEVE IT APPLIES TO YOU.
People who don't believe in the Golden Rule don't
spend their whole lives trying to solve world problems!
They instead prey on others for their personal
advantage!
> > and enacting death control would institutionalize
> > the Golden Rule in operation across generations!
>
> No it wouldn't. I have no animosity toward my
> predecessor generations that makes me wish they'd
> spread plagues to kill off their infants and
> elderly, and so I feel no obligation to do that for
> a generation that won't have expected it of me and
> my generation. I'm doing unto others exactly as I
> happily find others to have done to me.
It's not about one person (you); it's about everyone!
> > (I've told you this dozens of times)
>
> That would be several thousands of times.
>
> Your obsessive compulsive disorder is your problem.
> That you try to make it Usenet's problem too is just
> one more indication of how little heed you pay to
> that very golden rule in which you pretend to
> believe, and which you flog here constantly while
> also violating it constantly.
> Can you spell "hypocrite", Pollutka?
I'm just discussing a problem and its possible
solutions, no different than anyone else! You
just don't like the solutions I offer, because you
might have to pay a price, and because I'm not
an atheist depressive like you!
> > I think people would be more likely to get the
> > message that way.
>
> It is really your opinion as a brain-burned drunk
> that people will be more receptive to your message
> if you beat them over the head with it hundreds of
> times in succession, and in places where they have
> indicated no interest in hearing it? Amusing.
> This merely demonstrates, yet again, how little
> capacity for rational thought you have, and so
> how little heed should be paid to anything you
> espouse. You are and remain a plague on Usenet,
> an insane troll who insists on posting his insane opinions
> in newsgroups where they have no audience and no
> right to be posted. You were _born_ to be a hoarse-
> voiced street corner preacher frothing and raving to
> the uncaring passersby. Go accept the mandate of
> your destiny, and leave us alone.
If you had a legitimate argument, you wouldn't have
to add in all this ad hominish invective!
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