Article: Philadelphia-Area Apparel Workers Find Refuge with Industry Survivor.

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 ...

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