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...Bulletin throws off the garment of gloom for the moment and indulges in a little humor over the future opening of a similar box by President Conant on September 8, 1936, which was sealed by President Josiah Quincy...
...basis of crafts. This is not going to suffice in those industries where the line between the craft and the unskilled workers is not discernible." Miner Lewis claimed to have lined up not only his own huge industrial union but the International Typographical Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Ladies' Garment Workers, Mine, Mill & Smelter Union, milliners, rubber and brewery workers. However, he was at pains to disclaim any ambition to unseat William Green, vowed that the quarrel would be conducted within the Federation...
...constitution, outlaw Communist members (TIME, Oct. 21). At a Federation convention the 525 delegates cast some 30,000 votes. Of these the miners control some 4,000. Leader Lewis picked up another 7,000 from unions like David Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers, demonstrated so thoroughly that the Red hunt amendment could not get the two-thirds majority needed for passage that when it was brought out on the convention floor most of the sting had been removed. As passed, it provided that Communists might be members and fulfill all functions...
Labor Party. The Ladies Garment Workers of pinko David Dubinsky, the United Textile Workers who put on a savage strike last year under bellicose Francis J. Gorman, a number of Federal and local unions plus the State Federations of Utah, Wisconsin and Oregon have all gone on record for an out & out Labor Party to put up a united Labor front at the ballot boxes. But the policy of Boss William Green and most of his lieutenants has been that of a ward leader: "Reward your friends and punish your enemies." At last week's meeting President Green squashed...
...Deal defenders were scarce, but their voices were heard. Publisher Frank B. Shutts of the Miami Herald flayed Roosevelt critics as shortsighted, short-memoried ingrates. William Taradash, retired Chicago garment maker, heartily approved Mr. Honeywell's suggestion that businessmen retire to politics next year- not to defeat Roosevelt but to re-elect...