Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plunging from a chuckle to a shout, bellowing into a telephone in his broad Yiddish accent, flourishing an unlit cigar, Dubinsky directs this show with shirt-sleeved zest and an even hand. Says he: "You've got to be on your toes, not on your bottom...
Order out of Chaos. Such far-flung notions of its job are basic to the nation's most remarkable union. Once dominated by Communists itself, the I.L.G.W.U. is now the pillar of the anti-Communist Left. Despite the heaviest hand in management in all U.S. industry, no other union is so popular with its employers...
...Whip in Hand. In the '20s, the Communists fought for control of the union. The employers hired "Legs" Diamond and his gang, the Communists replied by signing on the Little Augie mob. These racketeers and their successors plagued the industry for years. In 1927, after a disastrous strike called by the Communists, the International was left with only 32,000 members and $1,500,000 in debts. Dubinsky had become head of his local, and his was the only one solvent...
...though a labor leader shouldn't be comfortable.") He pays $190 a month rent, lives there with his wife, their divorced daughter and her child Ryna, who is the apple of her grandfather's eye. The rooms are crowded with pictures, antiques, and knickknacks. Waving his hand, Dubinsky explains: "See all these gifts, gifts, so many I didn't know what to do with them. How many wrist watches can you wear?" Now when a local wants to show its gratitude, Dubinsky has his secretary tell it what he can use. He points across the room: "Like...
...testify to Tennyson's magnetic power as this veneration by the second and third generations of his family. Charles, a distinguished lawyer and civil servant who is now 70 himself, remembers his towering grandfather in old age, shuffling downstairs in the morning and extending his great withered brown hand to the children to kiss...