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...discretion. The rebel unions marked for first expulsion were John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America and Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America-C. I. O.'s twin financial pillars. Least likely to be ousted was David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers, for Mr. Dubinsky has long wanted peace. Moreover, Mr. Dubinsky, who has always played second fiddle to Mr. Hillman in the needle trades, though his union is bigger, is now in a jurisdictional war with Mr. Hillman...
...their own union members. To Mr. Lewis' miners the report spoke of ". . . officers who levy upon them huge assessments for the serving of personal ends." To Mr. Hillman's clothing workers it mentioned ". . . undue special assessments for purposes of political aggrandizement." As for Mr. Dubinsky's garment workers, A. F. of L. could not believe that they would ". . . long tolerate invasions of their jurisdiction, the ignoring and belittling of their officers, the whispered and undercover ridicule of their leaders...
...Concessionnaires sold to the 60,000 daily sightseers 10? replicas of the kidnap ladder, reporters adjourned to Nellie's Tap Room, after filing a million words daily, to sing a parody of the German Schnitzel-bank song about the ransom note and the baby's sleeping garment, and Edward J. Reilly took the defense with small chance of pay because "it's a criminal lawyer's dream of a case." To millions of decent U. S. citizens the Flemington trial seemed more like a nightmare, and fortnight ago, after long study, a committee of 18 leading...
...compared with the Baptist and the Methodist churches, the Episcopal Church does not go in much for the sort of homely activity represented by religious plays or pageants. The typical Episcopal vestryman, often a banker or substantial businessman, would feel queer in the false beard and cheesecloth garment which a small-town Presbyterian may wear with pleasure. Doubly notable, therefore, was an Episcopal pageant put on last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall-biggest show ever performed by U. S. Episcopalians, and designed to quicken Episcopal interest in missions. It was called The Drama of Missions to Spread...
...Katonah, N. Y., Commonwealth, in Mena, Ark.). Many a C.I.O. union has recently established an educational department, which not only teaches workers Labor history but trains them in collective bargaining strategy, psychology, public speaking, influencing public opinion. Largest and oldest of such programs is that of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, directed by astute, British-born Mark Starr, which has 20,000 workers enrolled in courses. New Labor courses have been started for auto, rubber, transport workers, and WPA Workers Education Project is explaining Labor's problems to 50,000 students in 20 States...