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Playing a garment-district secretary named Miss Marmelstein who has all the sex appeal of an eight-day-old bagel, Actress Barbra Streisand, 20, is about the only bargain in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. So having arrived at star status, she felt compelled to utter a few words on her Method that would make Stanislavsky spin. "It has to be a little false to show the truth," she told a New York Post reporter. "Like I used to wear my hair down for a show, and they couldn't see my eyes, they...
...business, as the $12 billion-a-year garment industry dubs itself, is stretching out. In the lofts above the pushcart pandemonium of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, Italian seamstresses have given way to Negroes and Puerto Ricans, and in carpeted executive suites, the district's predominantly Jewish chiefs proudly point out that more and more young gentiles are coming in as junior executives. The most significant change, however, is that giants are beginning to appear in an industry where the average firm has 40 employees. Biggest of them all is Jonathan Logan, Inc., whose sales, running 34% ahead...
...clash came in Meany's room at the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel. Reuther had requested the meeting, and at 4 p.m. he showed up in the company of Dave Dubinsky of the ladies' garment workers' union and Al Hayes of the machinists...
...more than four decades of bitter battling, David Dubinsky, 70, has built among the teeming sweatshops of Manhattan's garment district one of the nation's most powerful industrial unions. But, for the past 19 months the indomitable and volcanic president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (fondly but cautiously dubbed "Papa" by his rank and file) has been fighting a surprisingly different kind of battle. This time Papa Dubinsky is out to break a union. His victim: the Federation of Union Representatives (FOUR), which was organized as a "union within a union...
Dubinsky, however, does not regard himself as just an employer. Garment union staffers, he argues, are not "just job holders," but rather "missionaries out to convert the unorganized." As he sees it, the leaders of FOUR "can only be prompted by the commercialism of our times," and are out to create "dual loyalties" within his union. To avert that calamity, Dubinsky has decided upon a course taken by many a capitalist before him: he vows to fight the NLRB ruling through every possible court, a process which could delay FOUR's recognition as a certified bargaining agent for another...