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...because of his radical political sympathies, he left Czarist Russia for Manhattan's lower East Side. Through the columns of the Forward, he presented democratic socialism as well as lighter reading in terms that ill-educated immigrants could understand, fought to ameliorate sweatshop conditions in the garment trades, became a leading anti-Communist in the Jewish world...
Died. Kelcey Allen, 75, drama critic for Women's Wear Daily since 1915; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The dean of Broadway's critics, Allen wrote determinedly unliterary reviews which had a great influence on the boxoffice; his paper served the mammoth garment industry, making him top authority on what show a visiting buyer could enjoy on a spare evening...
David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union LL.D...
...separate phone calls from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union prompted executive officers of each organization to vote in favor of supporting the picket line. They did not confer with management until a day later, while other members walked idly in the rain outside the factory. The more they talked to the strikers and those still on the job, the more confused the issue became. As a result, both executive boards recanted their position and set up a fact-finding committee...
Sharp criticism of the Liberal Union's neutral position in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union-Revelation Bra Company strike came last night from Ralph Roberts, general organizer...