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Having been suspended by A. F. of L. after joining C. I. O., and having failed to reunite the warring houses, David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers of America last week quit C. I. O. President David Dubinsky felt that John L. Lewis had done Labor peace great harm by calling a convention in Pittsburgh this week to turn the Committee for Industrial Organization into a permanent "Congress...
Most U. S. employers were in no danger. Of the 11,000,000 employed in industries under the Act, U. S. statisticians last week figured that only 750,000 (a large proportion in Southern, lumber, garment, fertilizer industries) received less than 25? an hour. Twice as many, about 1,500,000 employes, work more than 44 hours. In future years the standards will grow stricter: beginning October 24, 1939 30? & 42 hours; October 1940 30? & 40 hours; October 1945 40? and 40 hours. Meantime, committees representing management, labor and the public may fix the wage minima actually applying...
...biggest heel in contemporary U. S. fiction is a smart guy named Harry Bogen. This Bronx boy made good last year in Jerome Weidman's I Can Get It For You Wholesale as the slickest, crookedest trader in Manhattan's garment centre, who railroaded his partner to prison, ended up with plenty of dough, a fancy chorus girl named Martha Mills and an invincible conviction that he knew...
Harry Bogen will not be missed. If Author Weidman has any more like Harry up his sleeve, God help the good name of Manhattan's garment centre...
Only one remotely likely to come home without the rest of C.I.O. is the rich, potent International Ladies Garment Workers of America, whose President David Dubinsky has summoned his executive board to decide whether to participate in C.I.O.'s first convention next month. Last week Mr. Dubinsky's Justice plugged editorially for intervention by Mr. Roosevelt...