Word: antonini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union tactics to ballroom dancing. The Union goes in for sports, clubs, pageants, dramatics, music-and politics. For the Garment Workers Union is one of the twin pillars of the American Labor Party, which holds the balance of power in New York State politics. Labor Party chairman is Luigi Antonini, president of the world's biggest local, Garment Workers No. 89 with 42,000 members...
...West Side's smallish Claridge Hotel, is pince-nezzed, 39-year-old Alex Rose, vice-president and secretary of the United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers, an A. F. of L. union whose president, Max Zaritzky, is personally friendly to C. L O. State Chairman is Vice President Luigi Antonini of the C. I. O. International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, a voluble Italian who wears a Buster Brown tie and is also president of I. L. G. W. U.'s Manhattan dressmakers' Local 89, the largest (42,000 members) union local in the world. Treasurer is Andrew...
Last week A. L. P.'s were the only party headquarters to receive a post-election visit from Mayor LaGuardia. Posing with Leaders Rose and Antonini with a copy of Lawyer Ernst's Supreme Court book, The Ultimate Power, clasped in his chubby hand, His Honor was the very picture of a modern labor-loving mayor. That he was A. L. P.'s mayor any more than he was Fusion's or the Republicans', however, Fiorello LaGuardia denied in one of his explosive bursts of advice: "Your party is clean now and has lofty principles...