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Article: Philadelphia-Area Apparel Workers Find Refuge with Industry Survivor.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- August 20, 2003
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By Harold Brubaker, The Philadelphia In...uirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 20--During a 35-year career in the apparel industry, Frederick Gillette worked for seven companies before landing at Artex Knitting Mills Inc. eight years ago.
Not that he is a job-hopper.
"They all went out of business," Gillette said of his previous employers as he slipped a spool of black yarn onto a creel on one of Artex's 100 knitting machines, whose humming fills the South Jersey factory.
For Gillette, 61, and many of his colleagues who make up Artex's 90-person unionized workforce, the Westville, Gloucester County, producer of knit ...