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Unlike the Electrical Workers' Carey and the Steelworkers' McDonald, most major union leaders are returned to office almost by rote. Among these is Polish-born David Dubinsky, president of the 440,000-member International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Last week, at 73, Dave Dubinsky was re-elected for a twelfth three-year term and was awarded a $50-a-week raise (to $31,000 a year). As usual, he had only token opposition. Said Dubinsky after 1,000 I.L.G.W.U. convention delegates gave him an ovation: "There is much more to be done. I feel...
...unions now put out more than 1,000 publications, ranging from slick magazines to mimeographed monthlies, which reach 20 million readers as fringe benefits bought with union dues. The better papers-the Machinist, the Hat Worker, Electrical Union World, the autoworkers' UAW Solidarity, the ladies' garment workers' Justice, the clothing workers' Advance-carry lengthy analyses of legislation before Congress and think pieces on such top ics as automation and narcotics. They are almost all unabashedly Democratic in their politics, and they tend to embark simultaneously on the same liberal campaigns: to abolish right-to-work laws...
...Leon Stein, "but how do you dramatize a tax cut?" On the other hand, union members now read their papers for much the same reasons that other people read the commercial press: for information and for entertainment. "In the '20s and '30s," recalls a Manhattan ladies' garment worker, "there were just two classes of society. It's a different world today, and Justice is also different. We're all better for the change...
...major event of an evening which included a display of African dress and a panel discussion of African and American Negro literature. A group of students, who seemed amused at their new roles as clothing models, came on stage nation by nation, wearing brilliantly colored and patterned garments. At one point, the audience learned that the two huge white buttons on the top-piece of one girl's garment were an innovation by missionaries who had been displeased with the previous more loose-fitting arrangement. (On the whole, Christianity took a fairly heavy beating last Saturday night...
...boss of a big Longshoremen's local in Brooklyn is college-trained Anthony Scotto, 30. He is a special case: he was hand-picked by the late Tony Anastasio, who happened to be his father-in-law. And one of the fastest-rising men in the Ladies' Garment Workers is Dave Dubinsky's son-in-law Shelley Appleton, 45. Obviously one of the best ways to get ahead in U.S. unionism is to marry the boss's daughter...