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...Justice Department's Antitrust Division last week opened a long-planned campaign to apply the antitrust laws to labor unions. Indicted in Manhattan after nine months of grand jury hearings was the boss of Local 25 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the biggest local in the blousemaking industry. The Justice Department charged that the I.L.G.W.U. local took part, along with three trade associations, in a conspiracy to fix prices of ladies' blouses, a $300 million industry, and to allocate business among blousemakers. Also charged with criminal conspiracy was Harry Strasser, a partner with slain...
...Frontal Attack." The indictment caused a wince of pain from the department because the trustbusters had begun their campaign against the highly regarded International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and not against some out-of-favor union such as Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. But First Assistant Antitrust Chief Robert Bicks said: "It would be a perversion of our function to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' unions. The question is whether unions are violating the Sherman Act." I.L.G.W.U. President David Dubinsky, who has fought hard and with distinction against sweatshop operators and racketeers...
Actually, the Antitrust drive to stop fixing prices and allocating territories in the garment industry began a long time ago. In the Truman Administration the Antitrust Division indicted the Women's Sportswear Manufacturers Association for a conspiracy to fix prices and funnel orders to Association members designated by the union as in good standing. But at that time it was not the division policy to name I.L.G.W.U. as a defendant in the suit, only the employer group. Says Bicks: "We waited years for the unions to clean up this kind of situation. They did not. So we finally indicted...
...Sons of Habitués." Starting each pleasant day, David Dubinsky, grizzled chief of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, went down to the hotel pool in a flowing bathrobe, red and black sandals. Afternoons-to rest from the brief morning business sessions-he spent swimming in the surf with his 13-year-old granddaughter. Spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky of Amalgamated Clothing Workers strolled poolward in a natty blue-and-white beach jacket and Hollywoodish sunglasses. Sparking the livelier set, the Electrical Workers' Carey demonstrated fancy dives from handstands on the high board. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany appeared...
Jobs in the theater were hard to come by when Harry Belafonte left dramatic school in 1948. He took a job as a messenger and package wrapper in the garment district; nights he used to drop in at a Broadway jazz cellar known as the Royal Roost. He learned a few songs-Star Dust, Blue Moon, Pennies from Heaven-and landed a job. He made some recordings, even composed a quavering ballad titled Lean on Me ("You in your high ivory tower/ Drunk with the sense of your power/ I adore you/ Do I bore you? Come, come...