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...whom New York Times Reviewer John Chamberlain calls "one of the great journalists of our times" has written one of the most important books about U.S. labor. Benjamin Stolberg's Tailor's Progress is a history of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (I.L.G. W.U.-membership: 310,000), a keen commentary on U.S. social politics, a detailed, sometimes brilliant biography of an outstanding social politician, I.L.G.W.U.'s President David Dubinsky...
Around 1870 there appeared at the Brazilian port of Baía a "somber anchorite with hair down to his shoulders, a long tangled beard, an emaciated face, and a piercing eye." He was clad in a blue canvas garment and carried a pilgrim's staff. He was young Antonio Conselheiro. For ten years he had been wandering in the backlands of Brazil (hiding there in shame after his wife had run off with a policeman), eating little or nothing, indifferent to danger, speaking in cryptic, prophetic monosyllables, sleeping in the open, and becoming a terrifying, unforgettable legend...
...Dealish group, which calls itself the Social Democratic Federation. Social Democrats combine the pragmatism of Philosopher John Dewey (a frequent New Leader contributor) with, as their name implies, a desire for "democratic socialism." They are pro-trade union and wish there were more union leaders like the garment workers' David Dubinsky. Beyond that they disagree among themselves on pros & cons...
...City Center of Music and Drama. City Center opera was popularly priced at a $2.20 top. The roster of its horseshoe glittered not with Astors and Vanderbilts, but with such noted figures as ex-Police Commissioner George V. McLaughlin, National Maritime Union President Joe Curran, International Ladies Garment Workers' President David Dubinsky, and Jacob Rosenberg, president of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians...
...most of Halasz's singers sang well and some of them very well. Its rows packed with enthusiasts including Du-binsky's garment workers and Curran's seamen, the City Center bulged with sold-out houses. But by week's end Mayor LaGuardia's marked-down opera found itself in a situation familiar to its high-priced rival, the Met: it had lost substantially at the box office...