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-The High Point (N. Enterprise, Sunday, Feb. 11, 1951 Slavs Make Sport Shoes for America By GEORGE PALMER TRIESTE, Feb. 10. Pro- Tito Yugoslavs who now live on the Italian side of the frontier in Trieste are making sport shoes for the women of America.

They are among some 250 em- ployes of the Lucky shoe company. which recently moved an entire factory from Massachusetts to Trieste. The whole project is novel, with a highly international flavor. For example: the factory is in the free port of Trieste on the northernmost tip of the Adriatic sea. QUALITY SHOE REPAIRING WHILE VOU WAIT Four Shoe Repairers Satisfaction Guaranteed SHERATON GOODYEAR SHOE SHOP 21S NORTH MAIN TO BKKSON HWD.

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The result is that Americans, Italins and Yugoslavs are turning out close to 1,000 pair of resort shoes a day which will retail in America for from three to five dollars a pair. Tlie shoes are made of raffia, the fiber from cultivated palm trees. Training Stage This factory has been in opera- lion only a few months. It is still in what its executives call "the training stage," moving ahead slowly, training its newly hired personnel, teaching Italians and Yugoslavs how to operate the shoe- inaking he But the groundwork has been laid. Whereas the company can now produce nearly 1,000 pairs of shoes daily with 250 workers, by adding only 35 more employes the daily output can be boosted to 1,800 pairs, officiate say.

Under present plans I he company's production schedule for the spring calls for 200,000 pairs a month. Albert Saitz, veteran shoe manufacturer from Boston, who is president and director of the company, explains why. a group of U. S. business experts decided to open a shoe factory in Trieste.

"Look at this place," Saitz says, pointing to his topfloor, warehouse factory on the Trieste waterfront, "we pay ninety dollars a month rental for this. In the states we'd have to pay something around two- thousand dollars rental for the same thing. If we could get the same thing. There's no overland and transportation problem for we're right here at the docks. And being a free port, there's no need 1 for export or import licenses.

Study Styles "We simply study all the beautiful styles of Italian handicraft, take the best of it we find, style our shoes to the American taste- stuff we know from experience will sell and go to work producing shoes." Saitz has high respect for the Italian and Yugoslav workers' ability to learn new techniques and claims that the local workers they've hired have picked up in a week what it would take American factory hands months to learn. The shoes produced are practically all sport models made of woven raffia grown on the island of Madagascar. The raw raffia is bought in Florence and doled out to Italian and Yugoslav women in the nearby villages around Trieste. The raffia, dyed in various colors beforehand in the Trieste factory, (hen is made into shoes on American machines. Weave At Home In some of the villages, where there is no other work whatsoever, the weaving is done in local parish houses.

The women have been selected by the local parish priests. And in one such village Sant'Antonio, which Trieste political officers is 09 per cent pro- rito Communist 35 Slav workers are pitching in, earning their Hv- ng, by helping to manufacture American shoes. Thomas A. McCann, of Minnea- treasurer and director of the firm, explained that "we conduct English classes for our workers three times a week, and tveryone attends. They love it." The firm also is going in for manufacture of raffia and handbags, belts and hats, only one to six handbags are urned out for every 36 pair of Army Contract The company is negotiating now or contracts with the U.

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