Word: garment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President David Dubinsky of the independent International Ladies' Garment Workers said in Manhattan: "Mr. Lewis is counting his labor votes long before they are hatched. The wage earners of America . . . will line up solidly in sup port of President Roosevelt . . . should he choose...
...split between the Federation and John Lewis, erroneously reporting that the ten original C. I. O. unions were "expelled" in 1936. Hair-splitting Mr. Green reminded her that the ten were suspended in 1936, that only nine ever were expelled, and that the unexpelled tenth (David Dubinsky's Garment Workers) is edging back into the Federation. Fanny Perkins further irked Mr. Green by observing that both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. "claim" 4,000,000 members. "We do not 'claim, we report 4,000,000 paid-up members," snorted Bill Green, sneering that...