Roger Milliken, union buster, dead at 95.

[DemoTex]

http://www.wyff4.com/news/26325093/detail.html

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Proof that a repuke will only advocate for 'made in America'

when they personally have a dog in the fight:

Milliken, who resided in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is known for the millions of dollars he donated to the Republican Party over many years as well as his fierce opposition to unionization. However, his unfailing commitment to manufacture products in America put him at odds with free trade Republicans and caused him to join with United States trade unions to protect U.S. workers. He initiated the "Made with Pride in the USA" programs in the 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Milliken

If not for the family's textile bidness, he'd be on the same bandwagon as the rest of the 'free trade' repukes.

[Hannah Bell]

10. two-plus generations of inherited wealth just from the miliken line, but there's more than that.

exploring the pedigree pulls up *lots* of interesting family connections.

For example, Roger's brother married a Goodhue.

That Goodhue's sister married Hendricks Hallett Whitman.

The child of that Goodhue-Whitman marriage was a recent candidate for govenor of California.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/11/03/2010-11-03_meg_whitman_loses_california_governor_race_despite_140_million_tab_jerry_brown_w.html

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YKOySB_jXl0J:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php%3Faz%3Dshow_mesg%26forum%3D389%26topic_id%3D7694259%26mesg_id%3D7697838+hendricks+hallett+whitman&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us


i.e. Roger Miliken's sister-in-law's neice = Meg Whitman.

[Cirque du So-What]

11. How incestuous!

Can't have people marrying 'below their station' - possibly diluting the family fortune, yunno. Give 'em three generations, and most of those who inherit wealth have squandered the money anyway or else gone completely to seed. For all the caterwauling on the part of the GOOPers over the so-called 'death tax,' the family members are probably lucky for having to get off their dead asses & hustle for a living like everyone else.

[Hannah Bell]

12. "most of those who inherit wealth have squandered the money anyway or else gone completely to seed."

that's what they like you to think.

not the case.

miliken & his brothers = case in point. they got richer & married rich.

[badtoworse]

2. When I was 16, my first summer job was with Deering & Milliken

In the summer of 1966, '67 and '68, I was a shipping clerk and regularly sent and received rolls of fabric from the mills in South Carolina. NYC was a sales office and the sample department made up swatches of fabric for the sales force to use.

I was frequently able to bring home a few yards of material for myself and was pretty popular with the neighborhood girls who were into sewing.

I met Roger Milliken once and he seemed like a nice man.

[catnhatnh]

3. Typical Repub "Bootstrap" Bio....

from the obit, all the poor waif inherited was a textile mill and "some" "unsuccessful" department stores. And then with virtually NOTHING, he built an empire!!! I stand in awe-not really, just looking for a place to puke...

[blindpig]

4. Around these parts they treat him like a god...

but in truth he was a waste of good air. The son of a bitch once fired an entire factory because they dared to have a union vote, even though the workers voted against the union. The world is a little better without him.

[old mark]

5. I was always told to say nothing but good of the dead. He's dead...

Good.

Happier new year already!


mark

[WinkyDink]

6. Only the good.......

[blondeatlast]

13. Well said. nt

[breugel1]

7. Nice tax planning...

No estate tax with a couple days left.

[XOKCowboy]

8. Is that irony or just hidebound conservatism?

I can see a staunch conservative willing himself to die before the estate tax kicks in.

[WinkyDink]

9. Bwahaha! No way! Those old &*^%&$^s want to LIVE, man!

[breugel1]

14. He was 95..

Want does not have much to do with it. I have been in most all of his plants and I can say they are the safest textile plants I have ever been in. He also paid better that his competitors.