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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week was a big one for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, better known as I. L. G. W. U. The third edition of Pins and Needles, its famed home-talent satire, opened on Broadway. The rich, well-run union donated $235,000 to refugee aid. And I. L. G. W. U.'s executive committee tossed off a resolution on labor peace. If things go well for labor in the next few months, I. L. G. W. U.'s resolution may be called an important item in labor history. If things go badly...
...sprawling Amalgamated Clothing Workers,* formed the Committee for Industrial Organization, they did not demand industrial unionism for all A. F. of L. unions. Nor did they set up C. I. O. merely because they disliked individual A. F. of L. leaders, or disapproved of the way some unions were run. Basic complaint was that while A. F. of L. talked of organizing the big, mass-production industries, steel, rubber, autos, etc., it accomplished nothing. Lesser complaints were that unions were arbitrarily run by executives, that new members pouring in were frequently denied votes (mostly because new members threatened the complicated...
...brought some hope of peace at last. With Vice President Sidney Hillman, burry Mr. Murray is overlord and trouble-shooter of U.A.W. Two weeks of absentee advice (by telephone) having failed to get results, he appeared in person to read Messrs. Thomas & Frankensteen their umpteenth lesson in how to run a union...
...second birthday Pins and Needles had played 865 Broadway performances; longest previous run for a musical show was Irene, with 670. Every girl in the cast now sports a fur coat with a union label...
...also ideally suited for classic distance races like the Belmont Stakes (1½ miles), Jockey Club Gold Cup (2 miles), Lawrence Realization (if miles). But, because of its vastness, Belmont has long been unpopular with grandstand spectators, who rarely see anything but the stretch run of the shorter-races. Even Turf & Field Club patrons, who have followed races through binoculars ever since they could hist a pair, are hard put to it to distinguish jockeys' silks over the landscape gardening in the infield...